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I was most fortunate to spend a week in Maningrida with the WCE team and Aboriginal people from Northern Territory communities. Clearly, the maintenance of relationships within the complex kinship system is a vital part of keeping Aboriginal languages and cultures alive.
We were welcomed to this beautiful country by Dean Yibarbuk, where he told us a story on how Maningrida became a community and about the different languages that are spoken across the community.
Last month, with the support of the Maningrida School Principal, WCE staff facilitated two workshops with school staff, with the following aims:
Education out bush does not only happen in community. At different times during the year, children from the communities of Maningrida and Gunbalanya live out on their homelands.
Maningrida is one of the largest Aboriginal towns in the Northern Territory with a population of around 3000, and is situated approximately 500km east of Darwin in Arnhem Land, at the mouth of the Liverpool River.It also services about 30 outstations or homelands in the region.
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