[Applause]
Yura here candy bomber margarita
Karim our image in Volga do my carry
Bahji Kerri Baum by Booma nyah Bora Bora
caramel Bearpaw you really da
yeah you got a da yayo goddamn yeah you
got a DA games
goddamn Julian whare goobidy Warren
Warren go go go by Amber
youngji google yalanji Java jungle
g-hold i
now you got a da yeah God Galaga
[Applause]
I’m a yelling G woman from the Northeast
Australian coast Daintree rainforest
people my grandfather John giba was born
at Jewel Amba in the Daintree my
grandmother Nadi Gina was born at Dingle
more on the banks of the mossman gorge
just two hours north of here in Cannes
I’m going to tell you a story today
about a yelling G woman and her name was
junga G wealth of knowledge
jankoji didn’t even know her name as she
grew up because as an innocent
four-year-old girl
jankoji was stolen from about 1910 into
the 1970s many indigenous children were
removed forcibly
from their families as a result of
various government policies all over the
country so that’s over 60 years of
children being removed that’s at least
two generations and we now know these
generations as The Stolen Generations
jankoji grew up in these homes and as an
adult she didn’t talk much about her
time away from her family growing up in
the dormitory and she was asked once why
she didn’t cry much and her reply was I
have already cried all my tears every
night from the time that I was taken
until I was eight years old so for four
years his heartbroken little girl cried
every night for her mum and dad and for
a total of 13 years she was forbidden to
speak her language
she was told it was evil so much so that
even she became afraid because they were
punished so severely if ever caught
speaking their language but a resilient
junga tea held on to a few yelling G
words she remembered them and later
passed them on to her children she grew
up to be a beautiful young woman married
and had seven children and here I stand
today
a proud Yellin G woman daughter of
jankoji manga Deena Gumby
these words we’d never ever spoke in
English in our home words were her feet
clothes in this way my mum instilled in
me the importance of keeping yell ng
language in our daily speech
then when I was 16 I started learning
more yell ng phrases and I was already
composing music by this stage and I
decided then that I needed to put these
phrases into a song so I could remember
them and others could learn now 21 years
later the next generation are singing
this song I’ll sing it for you today
this is one jewel
[Music]
one Jew who donated a bomb ah got it
nigga G March ago got it making cheap
March occur in a Bubo kiriyama baba God
a given G Marty go got it digging deep
Monica
you
[Music]
god
[Music]
Nagel you in a bubble guru guru Baba
in a bubble guru guru
in a boo-boo Quiroga obama
[Music]
in a bubble
[Music]
[Applause]
got it and they can keep magical got it
they can keep Monaco got it and they can
keep mod you go got it got it got it
wanju Buitoni aura
[Music]
from the time that we are in our
mother’s womb the first sounds we hear
is that of her heartbeat the rhythm the
sound the melody this is our first
introduction to music then we go on to
learn some people traditional songs
others learn Nursery Rhymes and then we
define our own tastes and music from
there but I’m going to talk about
Nursery Rhymes that we that we all learn
can I get a show of hands today how many
people in here know the song twinkle
little star I think it’s pretty fair to
say that most of us in here know that
song yeah we know the lyrics
we know the melody the actions to the
song can I get another show of hands of
how many of you here actually remember
the moment that you learned that song
and I’m sure do you remember that moment
one out of this whole room and I’m sure
that all of us have taught our children
and there’s generations before us that
know that song as well this is the power
of song memory the Alzheimer’s
Association in the u.s. they go on to
explain that music is stored in so many
different areas of our brain which is
why they use music therapy and the power
of music to engage dementia patients in
their last stages globally indigenous
people have practiced muscle and song
memory when we pass on oral history for
thousands of years
Australian indigenous people have
practiced this oral history tradition
for over 40,000 years but under the
oppression that comes with colonization
we’ve had to take on a more Western
approach to passing on our knowledge but
I feel like now is the time to
strengthen our knowledge by using song
memory indigenous language is at a
critical point at this moment in our
nation’s history for many years
elders teachers and researchers have
been working tirelessly to retrieve and
revive stolen languages and in 2015 the
federal government began investing in
their indigenous languages and arts
program currently I’m developing a
program that uses song memory at the
core of the teaching strategy an
indigenous language program taught
through song there are many other
artists like myself that have been
keeping our languages alive through
music and this is an opportunity for us
as artists to embed and pants and enrich
our education system with the power of
song memory in a community not far from
here I’ve been running this program in
innisfail Far North Queensland and we’ve
been teaching the Mamu language with the
elders there through song so an entire
generation of young children in that
primary school are learning these songs
just like the nursery rhymes that you
all learn they’re taking away stories of
country
language from their country and culture
law and protocol within that we as
indigenous people have a lot to bring to
this national identity that we can all
embrace as Australians I believe in a
national identity that sees us using the
power of song memory in our early
education for all children in this
nation a national identity that speaks
the local indigenous greetings in every
hospital shop government building every
street corner and household of each
community a national identity that is
ready to take these steps forward moving
forward with the First Nations people
leading the way forward thinkers
building a strong foundation on
indigenous language culture and protocol
what do you believe your national
identity looks like in just two
generations from now
just like the birthplace of my
grandfather at Zhu Lamba do you know the
birthplace the name of your birthplace
the indigenous name of your birthplace
because I believe that my heart beats in
sync with the land that I come from
that’s what is so important I feel that
peace when I’m at home because my heart
is reading in sync with that land I’m
gonna invite I relocating groom on
percussion and I’ll leave you with this
thought and this song this is a song I
wrote called heartbeat happy your
heartbeat is the rhythm that you feel
from the beginning your heartbeats in
sync with the land that you called from
hobby your heartbeat is the rhythm that
you feel from the beginning yes your
heartbeat in sync with the land that you
come from feeling the rhythm I know that
you feel I can make it to meet it
because you were in a before you were
ball follow the people are walking
they’re beginning in their own soul I
have been waiting for so long for you to
come back on my please felt deep breathe
in the sound of your heartbeat hobby
your heartbeat is the rhythm that you
feel from the beginning yes your
heartbeats in sync with the land that
you come from hobby your heartbeat is
the rhythm that you feel from the
beginning yes your heartbeats in sync
with the land that you come from yawn
your boo boo I would oh go go wonder boy
you know mo Chou who is your friend
now your book will go jumbo gee wonder
for you the more jungle where is your
spray I have been waiting for so long
for you to come back home my treat felt
be breathing just sound oh you’re deep
[Applause]
Yura here candy bomber margarita
Karim our image in Volga do my carry
Bahji Kerri Baum by Booma nyah Bora Bora
caramel Bearpaw you really da
yeah you got a da yayo goddamn yeah you
got a DA games
goddamn Julian whare goobidy Warren
Warren go go go by Amber
youngji google yalanji Java jungle
g-hold i
now you got a da yeah God Galaga
[Applause]
I’m a yelling G woman from the Northeast
Australian coast Daintree rainforest
people my grandfather John giba was born
at Jewel Amba in the Daintree my
grandmother Nadi Gina was born at Dingle
more on the banks of the mossman gorge
just two hours north of here in Cannes
I’m going to tell you a story today
about a yelling G woman and her name was
junga G wealth of knowledge
jankoji didn’t even know her name as she
grew up because as an innocent
four-year-old girl
jankoji was stolen from about 1910 into
the 1970s many indigenous children were
removed forcibly
from their families as a result of
various government policies all over the
country so that’s over 60 years of
children being removed that’s at least
two generations and we now know these
generations as The Stolen Generations
jankoji grew up in these homes and as an
adult she didn’t talk much about her
time away from her family growing up in
the dormitory and she was asked once why
she didn’t cry much and her reply was I
have already cried all my tears every
night from the time that I was taken
until I was eight years old so for four
years his heartbroken little girl cried
every night for her mum and dad and for
a total of 13 years she was forbidden to
speak her language
she was told it was evil so much so that
even she became afraid because they were
punished so severely if ever caught
speaking their language but a resilient
junga tea held on to a few yelling G
words she remembered them and later
passed them on to her children she grew
up to be a beautiful young woman married
and had seven children and here I stand
today
a proud Yellin G woman daughter of
jankoji manga Deena Gumby
these words we’d never ever spoke in
English in our home words were her feet
clothes in this way my mum instilled in
me the importance of keeping yell ng
language in our daily speech
then when I was 16 I started learning
more yell ng phrases and I was already
composing music by this stage and I
decided then that I needed to put these
phrases into a song so I could remember
them and others could learn now 21 years
later the next generation are singing
this song I’ll sing it for you today
this is one jewel
[Music]
one Jew who donated a bomb ah got it
nigga G March ago got it making cheap
March occur in a Bubo kiriyama baba God
a given G Marty go got it digging deep
Monica
you
[Music]
god
[Music]
Nagel you in a bubble guru guru Baba
in a bubble guru guru
in a boo-boo Quiroga obama
[Music]
in a bubble
[Music]
[Applause]
got it and they can keep magical got it
they can keep Monaco got it and they can
keep mod you go got it got it got it
wanju Buitoni aura
[Music]
from the time that we are in our
mother’s womb the first sounds we hear
is that of her heartbeat the rhythm the
sound the melody this is our first
introduction to music then we go on to
learn some people traditional songs
others learn Nursery Rhymes and then we
define our own tastes and music from
there but I’m going to talk about
Nursery Rhymes that we that we all learn
can I get a show of hands today how many
people in here know the song twinkle
little star I think it’s pretty fair to
say that most of us in here know that
song yeah we know the lyrics
we know the melody the actions to the
song can I get another show of hands of
how many of you here actually remember
the moment that you learned that song
and I’m sure do you remember that moment
one out of this whole room and I’m sure
that all of us have taught our children
and there’s generations before us that
know that song as well this is the power
of song memory the Alzheimer’s
Association in the u.s. they go on to
explain that music is stored in so many
different areas of our brain which is
why they use music therapy and the power
of music to engage dementia patients in
their last stages globally indigenous
people have practiced muscle and song
memory when we pass on oral history for
thousands of years
Australian indigenous people have
practiced this oral history tradition
for over 40,000 years but under the
oppression that comes with colonization
we’ve had to take on a more Western
approach to passing on our knowledge but
I feel like now is the time to
strengthen our knowledge by using song
memory indigenous language is at a
critical point at this moment in our
nation’s history for many years
elders teachers and researchers have
been working tirelessly to retrieve and
revive stolen languages and in 2015 the
federal government began investing in
their indigenous languages and arts
program currently I’m developing a
program that uses song memory at the
core of the teaching strategy an
indigenous language program taught
through song there are many other
artists like myself that have been
keeping our languages alive through
music and this is an opportunity for us
as artists to embed and pants and enrich
our education system with the power of
song memory in a community not far from
here I’ve been running this program in
innisfail Far North Queensland and we’ve
been teaching the Mamu language with the
elders there through song so an entire
generation of young children in that
primary school are learning these songs
just like the nursery rhymes that you
all learn they’re taking away stories of
country
language from their country and culture
law and protocol within that we as
indigenous people have a lot to bring to
this national identity that we can all
embrace as Australians I believe in a
national identity that sees us using the
power of song memory in our early
education for all children in this
nation a national identity that speaks
the local indigenous greetings in every
hospital shop government building every
street corner and household of each
community a national identity that is
ready to take these steps forward moving
forward with the First Nations people
leading the way forward thinkers
building a strong foundation on
indigenous language culture and protocol
what do you believe your national
identity looks like in just two
generations from now
just like the birthplace of my
grandfather at Zhu Lamba do you know the
birthplace the name of your birthplace
the indigenous name of your birthplace
because I believe that my heart beats in
sync with the land that I come from
that’s what is so important I feel that
peace when I’m at home because my heart
is reading in sync with that land I’m
gonna invite I relocating groom on
percussion and I’ll leave you with this
thought and this song this is a song I
wrote called heartbeat happy your
heartbeat is the rhythm that you feel
from the beginning your heartbeats in
sync with the land that you called from
hobby your heartbeat is the rhythm that
you feel from the beginning yes your
heartbeat in sync with the land that you
come from feeling the rhythm I know that
you feel I can make it to meet it
because you were in a before you were
ball follow the people are walking
they’re beginning in their own soul I
have been waiting for so long for you to
come back on my please felt deep breathe
in the sound of your heartbeat hobby
your heartbeat is the rhythm that you
feel from the beginning yes your
heartbeats in sync with the land that
you come from hobby your heartbeat is
the rhythm that you feel from the
beginning yes your heartbeats in sync
with the land that you come from yawn
your boo boo I would oh go go wonder boy
you know mo Chou who is your friend
now your book will go jumbo gee wonder
for you the more jungle where is your
spray I have been waiting for so long
for you to come back home my treat felt
be breathing just sound oh you’re deep
[Applause]
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