With that spirit of kaya (hello and yes) I thank the Minang Noongar community's representative,Īlwyn Coyne, for his welcome, and acknowledge the Roberts clan and the Wirlomin Noongar people for giving me this Ocean ocean(alternative) ocean(alternative)ĭancing, singing, their many feet striking the earth here, at this edge of the sea.forever Noongar people took a military drill performed by Matthew Flinders men,įlinders meant it as a way of saying goodbye, I guess, meant it as a gift.īut isn't it also a very rare gift to be able to turn such stiff-limbed and military movements,Īll those sharp flutes and drums and rifle shots, into a dance.īaalain boola boola djin baaminy nitja boojar. (or hereabouts, since we stand on 'reclaimed' land at the waters' edge)
This place sometimes called the 'friendly frontier' I'm trying to pass on something much older,Īnd some scenes from a time when Noongar people - they that use the one word, Kaya, to say both 'hello' and 'yes' - contributed so much to this society here, Original, in a certain sense of the world Or newly minted for this very special occasionīut - if you'll bear with me and can stand the contradiction - I think I can offer something original. Kim Scott the author of That Deadman Dance, told the story of Flinder's men and their funny dance and how the Noongar people used to dance to tell the story of the 'dance'. The Prologue was written and read by local accomplished literary figures Kim Scott, Dianne Wolfer and Maree Dawes.
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