NINGY NINGY HERITAGE

(Check out the video below; it may take a bit to download so read the page and it should be done by then)

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Kurbingaibah - Centre for Indigenous Awareness provides access to traditional and contemporary Indigenous culture, crafts and customs set within a traditional area vegetated with local bush foods. It will introduce non-indigenous community members and visitors to traditional plants and foods of the area, their identification and preparation, by Traditional Owners of the land.  

Traditional dancers, will entertain, educate and inform community members with music, painting and story telling, as well as workshops on indigenous language and customs, dance, music and painting.  

The below Video is our first one on the website so the picture is not the best so please bear with us as more will follow soon, the video is of Maroochy and the Redcliffe Wakka Wakka Dancers performing for the Woodridge State School in the Hall at Kurbingaibah, move your mouse over to play.  

The community will gain some insight to and an understanding of Aboriginal People’s spiritual connection with the land and history of sustainable land management. The outcomes achieved from the development and maintenance of this project will provide an important educational, cultural, social, environmental and economic resource for future generations.  

In August 1997, an Aboriginal cultural heritage assessment was commissioned on a 2.337 ha block of undeveloped land in Redcliffe.  The aim of the study was to assess the significance of the site to Aboriginal people with traditional, and to a lesser degree, historical connections to the land.  It was found that a site of cultural significance, a ceremony ring, once existed on this block, which was cleared for farming in the 1950s effectively destroying the physical structure of the ceremony ring.  Despite the apparent non-existence of the ring since this time, it was found that the site is of significant cultural value to the Ningy Ningy Traditional Owners.  The spiritual importance of the land was the focal point of discussions and assessment which resulted in the land acquisition for its rightful Traditional Owners by the Indigenous Land Corporation 1997.  The then Minister for Aboriginal & TSI Affairs, Hon. The Senator John Herron issued a protection order for the site under section 9 of the Aboriginal heritage act 1984.

This site is referenced in a number of important publications and, in view of its rarity and the significant role it played in Australia's historical development, it is wildly regarded as nationally significant.

The assessment found that the Ceremony Ground is regarded as a sacred Aboriginal site and should be protected.

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