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This link facilitates students’ understanding of the connection between culture and land for Australia’s First Peoples. In comparing this relationship, students could reflect on their own relationship with the place they live in: is there an obvious connection? Is their connection as strong at the First People’s who have been here for over 60,000 years? Is it a different type of connection?
Connection to Country follows the Indigenous people of the Western Australian Pilbara’s battle to preserve Australia’s 50,000-year-old cultural heritage from the ravages of a booming mining industry. The Pilbara region sits in the Burrup Peninsula (or Murujuga) and is host to the largest concentration of rock art in the world, dating back over 50,000 years. It’s a dramatic and ancient landscape so sacred that some parts shouldn’t be looked upon at all, except by Traditional Owners. Director, Tyson Mowarin shows the waves of industrialisation and development that threaten sites all over the region, and how he and the people of the Pilbara are fighting back by documenting the rock art, recording sacred sites and battling to get their unique cultural heritage recognised, recorded and celebrated. Produced by Weerianna Street Media.
Link: Connection to Country - Teacher Notes
Link: Learning how development impacts heritage - Teacher Resource