Antinuclear

With about 90 photographs taken around Australia, On Country celebrates how indigenous people use generations of knowledge to manage Australia’s land, rivers and oceans.

The photographs show how these communities are using traditional and modern land management techniques to manage cultural sites and heritage values, as well as fire regimes, feral animals, pollution and the impacts of climate change. Curator Barbara Paulson said she hoped people would come away from the exhibition understanding more about how hard indigenous people worked to maintain their connection to the land………….

Ms Paulson said while the museum had never shied away from telling difficult stories, this one had a positive message – that indigenous people never took their connection to country for granted.

”There is a real understanding that you borrow the country for the future,” she said. ”You don’t inherit it from your ancestors, you borrow it for future generations, for your grandchildren, and you look after it to make sure that it stays intact so that they can continue to live.”  http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/aboriginal-art-on-country-exhibition-hopes-to-provide-the-big-country-picture-20131124-2y47d.html#ixzz2lghOVCVs