The land still speaks: Ni, katitj!

Authors/Creators

Sandra Wooltorton
Pierre Horwitz, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Len Collard

Abstract

In this paper we reflect on land, language and law in Wiilman Noongar Boodjar (Country), which has recently become known as the Upper Blackwood River Catchment in the South West of Western Australia. By intertwining historical perspectives with Western science and Noongar katitjiny (knowledge and understandings, or rationality) we argue that this region is alive, that it does have a language and that there is a message to be heard. History shows that the voice of the land might be diminishing, but signs of a transformation are evident, where a conciliation of these voices enables real listening to ancient insights and deep participation with place.

RAS ID

26171

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

1-2017

Location of the Work

Australia

School

School of Science

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Publisher

PAN Partners

Comments

Wooltorton, S., Collard, L., & Horwitz, P. (2017). The land still speaks: Ni katitj, Philosophy Activism Nature, 13, 57-67.

https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/INFORMIT.368273434953785

Recommended Citation

Wooltorton, S., Horwitz, P., & Collard, L. (2017). The land still speaks: Ni, katitj!. Retrieved from https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/5040