Thursday, January 19, 2012

Andrew Taylor

Photo of me Andrew Taylor as the Scarecrow zap me now

Andrew Taylor

Photo of me Andrew Robert Taylor a Aboriginal Man me now

Andrew Taylor

Photo of me Andrew Robert Taylor a Aboriginal Man me now

Andrew Taylor

Photo of me Andrew Robert Taylor a Aboriginal Man me now

Andrew Taylor

Photo of me Andrew Robert Taylor a Aboriginal Man me now

Killer Clown

Photo of a Clown from Killer Clown movie

Andrew Taylor

Photo of me Andrew Robert Taylor a Midget Wrestler

Andrew Taylor

Photo of me Andrew Taylor as Bottom in a Midsummer Nights Dream

Sunday, January 15, 2012

me

Wizard said I Wish U Andrew Taylor would become a female Indigenous child
Me now trapped as a Female Indigenous child

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Des Brickey

photo of Elder Des Brickey from The Western Yalanji People, of north Queensland

Greeny Purvis

The senior custodian of Alhalkere, Greeny Purvis, at Boundary Bore. Permission was given for the Boundary Bore mob to take us to Alhalkere, September 2007.

Aboriginal elder Mark McKenzie at Nepabunna

Davd Kapeen

Uncle David Kapeen, senior elder of the Kapeen family

FRANK
As a traditional Nungkari, or healer, Frank Ansell has
been chosen by the elders of his community to
share their traditional culture and healing practices
with others. Frank has worked with groups of
non-aboriginal people for a number of years on
his ancestral land and elsewhere and actively
works as a Nungkari in his community. He
specifically is interested in sharing his knowledge
and gifts with those who have been pursuing their
own spiritual healing and personal growth as well
as leaders and healers whose goal it is to help heal
and transform the organizations and communities
of which they are a part.

Frank helps others to tap into their own
spiritual resources and recognise the
interdependencies between one another, the natural
environment, and the larger spiritual universe.

Frank combines ancient Aboriginal teaching with modern techniques, and offers a gentle, intuitive
style of wisdom and humour that provokes people
to reflect on the hows and whys of their actions and
where they want to go. With profound simplicity
he releases blocks that have held people back from
achieving their goals and facilitates them to unfold
their greater potential to make a difference in their
own and others lives.

Frank holds a Certificate IV in Mental Health,
Certificate III in Clinical Healthwork and is a
traditional owner and initiated man from the
Undoolya region in the East Macdonnell Ranges
near Alice Springs. He has co-authoured a book
on Mental Health for Indigenous people.

Vince Coulthard

Vince Coulthard has worked to promote Aboriginal culture
among young people (Australian of the Year Awards)

Aboriginal leader Vince Coulthard has received this year's Premier's NAIDOC award for his work in promoting traditional culture and language.

Mr Coulthard, from South Australia's north, has chaired the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association for the past 13 years.
He played a key role in the first Indigenous Land Use Agreement over the Vulkathunha National Park in the northern Flinders Ranges.
He also runs South Australia's only Aboriginal radio station, the Port Augusta-based Umeewarra Aboriginal Media Association.
On accepting the award, Mr Coulthard paid tribute to his family.
"I guess some of the outstanding things in my mind comes from the drive from my elders, both my grandfather and my father," he said.
"I stand for the preservation of our culture, that's what I believe in strongly, and my message to young people is certainly be educated to be able to deal with society that we live in today, but don't forget where you come from."
"The future of our people lies in their hands," he said.
The Premier, Mike Rann, says Mr Coulthard is a very fitting winner.
"Vince has been a champion of Aboriginal people and Aboriginal opportunity over many years. He's always on about bringing the culture back, the healing qualities of Aboriginal culture for young people," he said.

Dr. Tom Calma

Mr Calma is an Aboriginal elder from the Kungarakan tribal group and a member of the Iwaidja tribal group whose traditional lands are south west of Darwin and on the Coburg Peninsula in Northern Territory, respectively. He has been involved in Indigenous affairs at a local, community, state, national and international level and worked in the public sector for over 35 years.

Banjo Morton,

Banjo Morton, a former stockman at the remote Aboriginal community of Ampilatwatja.

Peter Bird

Ownership stakes ... Aboriginal Elder Peter Bird at Talobilla Park, home of the Qld Sports Museum

Aboriginal man

Aboriginal Elder from the Wurundjeri People

Aboriginal elder Willie Gordon

The dormant rock art stories of Indigenous cultures living on Cape York may endure for centuries to come through funding for preservation by the Queensland government, but the methods of preserving rock art are still evolving.

Next week, the Department of Environment and Resource Management will meet with traditional owners near Bathurst Head to discuss preservation of Indigenous rock art in the area.
Traditional story-teller of the Nugal-warra clan, Willie Gordon, who runs tours of rock art sites near Cooktown, about 150 kilometres south of Bathurst Head, says maintaining sites is a complicated issue.
Willie has worked on the preservation of rock art, working with experts from around the world as well as documenting sites for future reference.
He says one method of preserving the rock art by some Aboriginal tribes is to repaint rock art.
""If you go to different parts of Australia they've already recoated or repainted art. They've painted it because it's in our culture to keep it alive and well," he says.
"They do things with Picasso's paintings [to preserve them] and Picasso's paintings are not forty thousands years old. They're a couple of hundred years old.
"So they do the same thing with Picasso's painting[s] and they're more expensive than our paintings ... if you want to put it in monetary terms."
Financial opportunities could also arise from the rock art's preservation.
"I think there's a potential for creating jobs," he says.
"You've got to be careful though what values you put on tourism and rock art.
"But there are stories that they've passed down for thousands of years and I think that needs to be continued."
Willie says there are possibly 'hundreds' of undiscovered rock art sites on the Cape.
A recent survey he conducted with the EPA around Cooktown and Hopevale also uncovered many more sites he previously didn't know about.
"We've been amazed at how many rock art [paintings there are] that we never knew about. But we've recorded that and it's in the [EPA's] archives," he says.
"We should go around and record as much as possible as it is in its state and if there's any future in preserving them we need to be careful in how we should do that.
"We need to look at responsible people [to take care of them]. People who want to be responsible for them because if we let them go, then they've gone forever.
"The question is are we going to leave it in Dreamtime or are we going to carry the stories?"

Aboriginal elder Major Sumner.

Aboriginal elder Major Sumner.

"We believe when you dance on the land, you're letting Mother Earth know you still care about her," says Major Sumner, Ngarrindjeri elder and the event's ceremonial coordinator. "This is about restoring the energy, dancing the spirit back into this country, dancing the spirit back into ourselves, into the Aboriginal people."