Yubulyawan Dreaming Project - Coming Soon!
The Yubulyawan Dreaming Project YDP is dedicated to documenting and sharing the wonderful cultural heritage and wisdom of Yidumduma Bill Harney, senior Australian Aboriginal Elder of the Yubulyawan clan of the Wardaman people.
This site is organised into 10 teaching video chapters with a YDP Education Guide and further research links, on the lower bar navigation.
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this web site may contain images of deceased people.
VIDEO CHAPTERS
YDP INTRODUCTION
"We linked in together, joined in, see...with the rock paintings and trees and the stars and everything all connected together."
CREATION STORY
Yidumduma always begins teaching his culture with the Creation Story from the Dreamtime, the Creation Time.
SONG
Extensive galleries of beautiful rock art adorn Wardaman country. The rock art was mostly created in the spiritual Buwarraja
ART
Extensive galleries of beautiful rock art adorn Wardaman country. The rock art was mostly created in the spiritual Buwarraja.
LAND
In the Dreamtime Buwarraja, the Great Spirtual Ancestors sang, shaped the land, gave birth to the land.
LANGUAGE
Ancestors sang the land in Songlines and brought the languages to the people all over the country.
LAW
Extensive galleries of beautiful rock art adorn Wardaman country. The rock art was mostly created in the spiritual Buwarraja.
BUSH UNIVERSITY
As a Bush Professor he constantly passes on this knowledge to his grand children as taught to him by his Elders.
STARS
In the Dreamtime Buwarraja when everything came to “still” and changed from the Spiritual to the present day natural world, the shadows of the Spiritual People
BIRDS & INSECTS
In the Dreamtime Buwarraja the Creation Dog Mardborrongo sang out, everything came to “still” in the country and some of the Spirit People changed into birds, some changed into insects.
About Bill Harney
YIDUMDUMA BILL HARNEY
Yidumduma Bill Harney is the last fully initiated Elder of the Wardaman people of the Victoria, Flora, and Katherine River Districts of the Northern Territory of Australia. Born in MUY MUY clan country in the early 1930s, Yidumduma is of the YUBULYAWAN clan.
