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Marline Cummins Marlene Cummins is a Redfern Blues singer and community activist.
The song I want to sing for you is from the Wongawango people and I believe there are some Wongawango people here today and this is time of the year when we ate the bunya nut we all came together we all went outside our tribal boundaries and ate the Bunya nut and we all corrobaried and we shared stories and our sufferings and everything together and traditionally this is what we do. But first and foremost I would like to pay tribute to the traditional ancestral spirits of this land of the blood that is soaked in this land of the black people who stood up and fought bravely against the undeclared war that was perpetrated on the people of this land and how they stood up bravely and fought. The men the warriors women warriors old people and the children’s blood that is soaked in this land this very land that you stand on here today. I would like to acknowledge them and pay tribute to them and their spirits and the descendants of those people from this area and I would like to sing for them this song from my country Garyendenami (sp?) |
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Hi everyone I’ve
been asked to come here today to give us all a
traditional blessing song here. Before I start to sing my
song I would like to acknowledge traditional protocol
because I am a Boogielegawoabar women
from up in Queensland so I bring a song of blessing to
this day today to warm our hearts and spirits and sing
away any bad energies.