CHRISTINE HOLROYD | 'Dancing Brolgas' | Linocut print Pulah (medicine from the beach) dhangala koey goersar arayzinga

dhangala koey goersar arayzinga

My father is Wik Iiyanh (fresh water people) from the Upper Holroyd River

The 9 page 1897 Queensland Act of Parliament ‘The Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act’

you can hear the thunder and see the lightening but still no rain

CHRISTINE HOLROYD | 'Dancing Brolgas' | Linocut print Pulah (medicine from the beach) dhangala koey goersar arayzinga"My name is Christine Holroyd. I am a Kugu and Thaayorre woman. My ancestors connect me to this place. I speak 4 Indigenous languages, and English. My people have been here forever. My father is Wik Iiyanh (fresh water people) from the Upper Holroyd River. My mother is Kugu Munhin (salt water people) from north Holroyd River. Both my parents were born in the bush. My dad worked in the stockyard before he met my mum. He worked as a drover for no wages