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You've got to go out and talk to people about the Adnyamathanha culture.
If people are going to respect the sites, they've got to learn about them.
There's mythology right across the Flinders Ranges. People look at it as
beauty and wildflowers, Andnyamathanha people see the beauty and the flowers,
and beyond that because we see the stories of how we have survived. It's
like a book to us, telling the stories of our creators. If those mountains
were taken away, there would
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be no stories for our children. The [Dreamtime] snakes in Wilpena Pound-
St Mary's Peak is the female snake looking up; Akaroos Rock on the eastside
is the male snake looking down. Where white man came and found coal at Leigh
Creek- that's the remains of the fire that Yulu the kingfisher man lit.
The land is my mother because a mother is the closest person in our life.
That's why the Flinders Ranges is like our mother."(Cliff Coulthard, in
Mattingley,C., 1988: 231-232)
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