Nyanda

08/11/2024

‘A Library of Country’

You may have heard of scar trees, but how about trees-in-trees? These different types of "modified trees" tell a story about Indigenous culture, if you know how to read them.

07/11/2024

Nyanda was proud to assist Economic Development Queensland in developing its Traditional Owner Engagement Protocol for the Northshore Priority Development Area.

The creation and implementation of the protocol is a demonstration of best practise engagement and a model to be aspired to and upheld in both government and private enterprise.

“The Protocol serves as a guide to ensure that EDQ staff meaningfully engage with Traditional Owners, establishing principles around the best processes for listening, learning, developing relationships and helping Traditional Owner families build capacity throughout the precinct’s development.”

05/11/2024

Beautiful Flax Lily (Dianella) lining the paths along and around Nar-dah (place of the black duck)

04/11/2024

Did you know that this binkin (freshwater turtle) lends its name to the word binkinba or Pinkenbah a local Yagara language word for the place of the freshwater turtle? 🐢 New Farm was originally called Binkinba by traditional custodians.
This binkin is one of the many residents of the Nar-dah Nudgee Waterhole Reserve coming up to say hi and see what we’re doing!

01/11/2024

The recent rains have made our pink lime berries (Glycosmis Trifoliata) nice and juicy 😋
These ones are pretty easy to propagate with a bit of TLC 😍

26/10/2024

An extraordinary map has been created to record Noongar place names of significant Perth locations and how people lived on the land prior to colonisation.

23/10/2024

Last week it was wonderful having the children participate in our native vegetation identification workshop as part of Nyanda’s Yagara On-Country Learning Project.
We worked with botanist Lorna Ngugi who is doing her PhD in native bushfoods.
It was a very hot day, but we all learnt so much!

09/10/2024

A very informative read concerning black cladding, how it is hurting mob and authentic black businesses.

To qualify as an Indigenous business, an organisation needs to be minimum 51 per cent Aboriginal-owned or controlled. Some say this isn't enough and that the system is being gamed.

05/10/2024

Culturally modified tree. The old people were here

23/09/2024

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11/09/2024

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28/08/2024

Proud of his legacy 💪🏽

28/08/2024

Neville Bonner Bridge Opens in Brisbane

The Neville Bonner Bridge, which connects the Queen's Wharf precinct in the Brisbane CBD to South Bank, is expected to cater to 10,000 pedestrians each day.

13/08/2024

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09/08/2024

Grateful to have been a part of this 🖤💛❤️ Thank you Food Connect Foundation

09/08/2024

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Today, Friday 9 August 2024 we acknowledge the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. It recognises the first meeting the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations held in Geneva, Switzerland in 1982.

Did you know?

🖤 Indigenous Peoples’ territories encompass 28% of the surface of the globe and contain 11% of the world’s rainforests. We are the guardians of most of the world’s remaining biodiversity.

💛 We speak the overwhelming majority of the world’s 7000 languages and represent 5000 different cultures.

❤ We are the inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and Ways of relating to people and the environment.

Here in Australia, according to the most recent archaeological evidence, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived on this land for 65,000 years, making us the world’s oldest continuing living culture.

The United Nations has an e-learning tool on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. If you’d like to connect in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples across the world, check it out:

https://bit.ly/4c9X3Vy

21/07/2024

It’s been a windy, yet beautiful weekend for getting out into country. Blessed to be sharing it with family.

19/07/2024

Meet the panel for our Indigenous Food Sovereignty in SEQ part of - an evening of canapes and conversation with First Nations women who are transforming our regional food system.

◾Madonna Thomson - Director of Nyanda, an Aboriginal owned enterprise which supplies authentic Aboriginal experiences, and owner of Jagera Daran, a long established, 100% Aboriginal owned and operated Cultural Heritage Consultancy in South East Queensland. Madonna is a proud First Nations woman – a member of the Jagera People and grand-niece of the late Senator Neville Bonner. Madonna has worked with First Nations communities in SEQ with a particular focus on developing and sharing traditional knowledge about management of the State’s natural resources and environment.
◾Aunty Dale Chapman - a proud Yuwaalaraay Kooma woman and the owner of My Dilly Bag. My Dilly Bag proudly builds awareness of the oldest living culture in the world - the Australian Aboriginal culture - to educate the national and international community and together take positive steps towards reconciliation. My Dilly Bag works sustainably with Aboriginal communities that grow and harvest bush tucker ingredients, and Aboriginal artisan creators, providing a platform to develop, market and distribute Aboriginal products and empowering communities.
◾ Aunty Terri Waller - a DTulua (Dooloowar) descendent of mixed ethnic heritage living on Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi country (Sunshine Coast). She is the Managing Director of SevGen. a community development organisation that aims to create wellness through connection and relationship. SevGen’s powerful social enterprise model empowers the social change that Terri and her mob are making through multiple projects in the community, including Galeru Bushtucker Orchard and Deadly Espresso Distribution and Cafe.
◾ Dominique Chen - a Gamilaroi woman, and interdisciplinary researcher living on Jinibara Country in South East Queensland. She lectures within the Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Griffith University, and is undertaking PhD research at the University of Technology Sydney in the area of relational creative practice and urban-based Aboriginal food and medicine growing. She is a co-founder of Yuruwan, an Aboriginal-run not-for-profit supporting learning opportunities for culturally-centred, urban-based food and medicine growing, by and for Aboriginal people and communities.

Find out even more about our speakers, as well as our MC Ancestress, caterer Kuppibunda Kitchen, and an overview of the evening's discussion, and get your tickets here:

https://events.humanitix.com/indigenous-food-sovereignty-in-seq