Artists Danny Eastwood
( http://www.rainbowserpent.com.au/Artist.aspx?Artist=Danny+Eastwood )
assists son,
Jamie Eastwood
( http://www.rainbowserpent.com.au/Artist.aspx?Artist=Jamie+Eastwood )
with some help from visitors, create a mural at the NAIDOC week family day celebrations at Blacktown Arts Centre
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is an aborigine singer and guitar player. He's blind from birth. Djarimirri is a very sweet song in Yolngu's language.
Phil Fontaine's response
Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The response of Phil Fontaine, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's apology to residential school survivors:
Prime Minister, Chief Justice, members of the House, elders, survivors, Canadians, for our parents, our grandparents, great grandparents, indeed for all of the generations which have preceded us, this day testifies to nothing less than the achievement of the impossibl
A video welcoming yesterday's apology by the
Government of Canada...to it's Aboriginal Inhabitants
...and actknowledging the suffering of the First Nations...especially in residential schools. Three
central elements combined in this video: My painting: "Residential School"...my instrumental composition: "Heart Beat"...and today's headlines in the Vancouver Sun.
The part of the speech where the apology takes place, enjoy...
A traditional welcome to country by Indigenous elders has been held in federal Parliament for the first time, ahead of tomorrow's formal apology to the Stolen Generations. Ngambri-Ngunnawal elder Matilda House Williams says the 'Welcome to Country' acknowledges her people and their ancestors.
The Stolen Generation is a term used to describe the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, who were removed from their families by Australian government agencies and church missions, under vario
Prime Minister Paul Keating and the legendary Redfern Park speech 1992