Revived Union Of Who We Have Always Been. Remembering and Re Learning A Whole True Nature and First Languages.

Remembering Traditional Indigenous Cultures Through Education & Learning

Every aspect of education in India was considered to be a path of Yoga: music, dance, art, architecture, astronomy, literature, medicine, mathematics, psychology, philosophy. Based on yogic disciplines, dharmic values and meditation. This Yoga of Education must be revived.
— Dr David Frawley (@davidfrawleyved) June 30, 2021

U N I O N

C O N N E C T I O N

DADIRRI ~ LUCEAT LUX VESTRA ~ ATMA VIDYA

LISTEN ~ SHINE ~ REALISE

Welcome Home To Creation

Your Own True Nature

The Great Lakes local community has taken great pride in the revival of the traditional Gathang language of the Warrimay (Worimi) and Birrbay (Biripi) people.

Minyang nyura wubaliyn?

Nyura yiigu marala barraygu.

(Yii barraba barray.)

Yii Gathangguba barray.

Gathay nyiirun.

Welcome.

What are you doing?

You have come here.

(This is my country.)

This is Gathang country.

Let us go together.

TAFE is soon offering the Certificate II in Aboriginal Languages-Gathang at both Great Lakes and Taree Campuses, continuing the ground-breaking progress made last year. Many years of work had to be done before classes could commence as the Gathang language was a spoken, not a written language.

Classes use a locally developed Gathang grammar-dictionary, published by Muurrbay-Many Rivers Aboriginal Language Centre, as well as the Accelerated Second Language Acquisition teaching method (ASLA), developed in USA by Stephen Neyooxet Greymorning, an Arapaho language teacher.

It is important that we know that Australia is a nation of over 250 Australian Indigenous languages, not just one. It is also important that all Australians are able to name some of these, particularly the ones in our local areas.

Increasing the visibility and awareness of Indigenous languages will help our nation understand the rich cultural pluralism that existed before the arrival of Europeans and continues today.

Students of all ages quickly make progress with their language and have a lot of fun, speaking, singing and discussing cultural traditions.