Stan Kalkeeyorta from Aurukun in Far North Queensland Australia explains fire management and bush foods in the Wik Mungkan language with English sub-titles.
He's my first cousin his grandmother and my grandfather are brother and sister my grandfather is the younger brother my cousin passed away 2019 after this video was taken rest in peace my cousin 🙏🙏
Why was he chosen to speak about these things? Is he a cultural expert or spokesman for the group? (He did a great job!! I enjoyed the video!) Sorry for your loss!
THIS MAN, ARE THE REAL ONE( PEOPLE). WHO! LIVED IN THAT(THEIR) AREA. AN HE (THEY) KNOWS EVERYTHING OF THEIR(HIS LAND) MOTHER NATIVE SOIL. BUT, THE ONE WHO CONTROL THEM ( A NEW ARRIVAL AT THAT AREA) OR OF THAT AREA (PLACE OR, A LAND). ARE THE REAL NAIVE OF THEIR IGNORANT. WHAT THEY DO? TO OTHER CULTURES.THEY ALWAYS TEACH US! HOW OR WISE THEY ARE. BUT, IN-FACT THEY DECEIVE(US) OF THEIR TEACHING AND KNOWLEDGE. IN THE FIRST PLACE, WE DO NOT NEED THEM (THEY ONLY CAME OR ARRIVED, JUST TO LEARN THEIR CULTURE), HAHAHA OR MAYBE THEY WANT SOMETHING?
Yes he was right and we always do that every dry seasons by the way he's my first cousin his grandmother and my grandfather are brother and sister my grandfather is the younger brother.. my cousin passed away in April 2019 this video was taken after he passed away rest in peace my cousin🙏🙏
An excellent production - back in 1991 I recorded a radio history documentary 'Inan Nayee Aurukun Wik Kath - Listening to the Aurukun Story', in conjunction with Elders and Rangers for the TAFE Ranger Program and the Aurukun Shire Council , and Wik Media has beautifully captured the spirit of the land through Stan's guidance. Genuine and insightful - Stan's presentation is so naturally relaxed and quietly dignified that one savours his sharing of knowledge. My hearty congratulations.
Timothy Bottoms Hi Tim, thank you for the kind words. Have you got your radio doco, maybe you would like share, I'd like to hear it. As you know, Aboriginal people don't want to share their knowledge of the land because it becomes appropriated by the dominant culture. Luckily for us men like Stan see the benefits of sharing some knowledge, which I felt so lucky to learn first hand.
Yes you can hear the radio pgm on my website under 'audio'. I agree that many Abl people are wary of sharing some of their traditional knowledge and it is one of the reasons I have refrained from telling most of the Storywaters that I know about, out of respect for local Bama groups. However, if the Stories and knowledge is not recorded, then future generations may not have access to it and each 'tribal' group and fellow Australians may lose it completely, as has happened over a great deal of the continent. Judicious sharing (with approval of the Story owners) will hopefully aid in encouraging the broader Australian community to be proud of the ingenuity and intelligence of our Indigenous people and their clever occupation of the land over 65,000 years.
Thanks for the video, very interesting. The Native Americans used to manage the land by burning too. As they no longer do so, dry grasses etc build up, so when there is a fire, there is widespread devastation. I envy the connection some people have with the land. It is easily lost.
Weren't they burning those flammable grasses in the first place? They created the propensity for destruction. No interaction with the land by humans has ever been favorable, and in the best cases, it has been devastating. That's why almost every large species of mammal native to this hemisphere has gone extinct. There are too many losses to count, and although many are the result of European atrocities, an equal part find their blame in indigenous ones.
Diabolical Artificer Hi, thank you for your encouraging words. The Wik people are still managing their lands as they have done for thousands of years. Unfortunately we have the problem in Oz too where the new comers know how to manage their bank accounts but are one might say morons when it comes to looking after the land.
@@HuckleberryHim they made this place perfectly liveable for themselves. Those 2019 fires were 230 years in the making. They also burned in mosaics so there was always food nearby. When you burn regularly, there isn't much fuel for the fire so it burns cold and quick. It also means animals survive unlike the 2019 bushfires. Read the biggest estate on earth by Bill Gammage.
@@2partiesnotpreferred226 Rather than asking what sort of a balance Aboriginal Australians achieved with their ecosystems, an equilibrium state where a little destruction staves off even greater destruction, we should ask what those ecosystems looked like even earlier, without humans. How did their fires burn, if at all? What was the flora and fauna like? We can answer many of these questions, and the easiest (and most impressive) to answer is about fauna. We know Australia had dozens of species of very large animals, from multiple classes (birds, mammals, reptiles). They almost all vanished when humans arrived; that is destruction on a cataclysmic scale, but we tend to ignore it because the "new balance" is the only world we've ever known. Simply put, the situation is like this: Australia was doing fine. Humans arrive, major upheaval, but they find a way to coexist in their radically altered new world (you really have to, don't you? If you never managed to find a way to sustainably coexist with your ecosystem, you'd go extinct). Humans arrive again much later, and they think this was the original condition, but it wasn't. Imagine if one day far more destructive aliens arrive, and we advocate keeping oil refineries open because they are less destructive than the alien technologies, maintain some sort of balance with the world, etc.
@@HuckleberryHim yeah so basically the colonists failed to acknowledge the intricate work of the first nations people. Assuming they know better. The environment has undergone major changes since colonization. The soils and rivers changed with the introduction of sheep and cattle. The sheep compacted the soft layer of top soil into hard ground that wouldn't absorb water which caused major flooding that hadn't been seen before. Lots of rivers and creeks were widened and filled with silt and destroying the river banks, these once clearwater river pebble streams turned into silt filled murky water. What Australia was like 65000 years ago we will never know. As for the extinction of some mammals, we don't know the cause, it could have been many things. The climate went through many changes. Could have just not been able to adapt to changing conditions. Perhaps they were a threat to humans like bears or tigers, hence they were hunted. We don't know. What we do know is 28 mammals have gone extinct since 1788. The first nations way may not have been perfect but they created perfect balance. By your logic we should just move all humans to mars. We continue with our destruction of land and waterways. The first nations people were at one with nature. We lock it up and separate ourselves from it. The first nations people were sustainable for 65000 years. We are struggling after 230 years. The effect they had on the environment was good. Our impact is devastating. We have people making decisions for the environment who have barely stepped out of Sydney. Insanity.
Thank you so much for your very informative video. You showed quite an array of information, both for survival and conservation as well as living off the land like your ancestors. The knowledge is yours and never forget that. From across the ditch.
Thank you for your very thoughtful comment. Unfortunately Mr Kalkeeyorta, the presenter of this video, passed 3 years ago. Thankfully his presence is still felt today by his loved ones.
@@wikmedia15 I read this in the comments just after I posted this and I actually felt grateful to know he's with the older people who he said we're always in his mind. Thank YOU also for sharing this, it's beautiful.
@@I14Realok I just remembered this morning that yesterday was Mr Kalkeeyortas birthday. He loved that April 1st was his birthday as he was great at playing the fool.
@@wikmedia15 makes sense now. A massive thunder storm rolled through, it was beautiful... Now I wonder if the booming was the beats and the lightning was the strobe light, from the great corroboree in the sky to celebrate his day.
This is a wonderful presentation of Culture and Heritage viewed from the inside, it shows why First Nations people have survived all that was done to remove them from land and destroy their culture all under the excuse of saving them from being savages and saving their souls with Christianity when the Land is our Religion and belonging to Country is our connection through story. this is a wonderful legacy for all who follow and a true tribute to all First Nations generations Past, Present, and Future, Being the oldest continuous Culture proves that taking only what you need and being thank full for what you have is the true sustainability
Thank you AA for your thoughtful words about our film. Wik Media continues to create insightful films about our communities achievements, struggles and ancient knowledge. Today our communities have more challenges then ever before, we believe by creating and sharing our knowledge we can celebrate what we have to contribute.
He's my first cousin his grandmother and my grandfather are brother and sister my grandfather is the younger brother my cousin passed away 2019 after this video was taken rest in peace my cousin 🙏🙏
Why was he chosen to speak about these things? Is he a cultural expert or spokesman for the group? (He did a great job!! I enjoyed the video!) Sorry for your loss!
thank you for not narrating in English, i love hearing native voices/languages and reading along with sub titles.
We are the Wik People of the Western Side of Cape York Peninsula Queensland Australia👍🏾👍🏾
THIS MAN, ARE THE REAL ONE( PEOPLE). WHO! LIVED IN THAT(THEIR) AREA. AN HE (THEY) KNOWS EVERYTHING OF THEIR(HIS LAND) MOTHER NATIVE SOIL. BUT, THE ONE WHO CONTROL THEM ( A NEW ARRIVAL AT THAT AREA) OR OF THAT AREA (PLACE OR, A LAND). ARE THE REAL NAIVE OF THEIR IGNORANT. WHAT THEY DO? TO OTHER CULTURES.THEY ALWAYS TEACH US! HOW OR WISE THEY ARE. BUT, IN-FACT THEY DECEIVE(US) OF THEIR TEACHING AND KNOWLEDGE. IN THE FIRST PLACE, WE DO NOT NEED THEM (THEY ONLY CAME OR ARRIVED, JUST TO LEARN THEIR CULTURE), HAHAHA OR MAYBE THEY WANT SOMETHING?
He was very right when he spoke of how a controlled burn every year prevents massive fires. SMH
Yes he was right and we always do that every dry seasons by the way he's my first cousin his grandmother and my grandfather are brother and sister my grandfather is the younger brother.. my cousin passed away in April 2019 this video was taken after he passed away rest in peace my cousin🙏🙏
California could learn a few things from him.
Someone plz inform California.
@@edwardpootchemunka2061 Hello brother, if this is true then I am very sorry for your loss. He seemed like a kind soul.
@@wesleyharding7544 California is a Democrat run liberal shit hole now.. they stopped logging, and now the fires are worse than ever
Thank you for sharing your ways with us and greetings from Northern California my friend.
Thanks for your kind words, they all add up.
you'd have to be hank marvin
Thank you brother
An excellent production - back in 1991 I recorded a radio history documentary 'Inan Nayee Aurukun Wik Kath - Listening to the Aurukun Story', in conjunction with Elders and Rangers for the TAFE Ranger Program and the Aurukun Shire Council , and Wik Media has beautifully captured the spirit of the land through Stan's guidance. Genuine and insightful - Stan's presentation is so naturally relaxed and quietly dignified that one savours his sharing of knowledge. My hearty congratulations.
Timothy Bottoms Hi Tim, thank you for the kind words. Have you got your radio doco, maybe you would like share, I'd like to hear it. As you know, Aboriginal people don't want to share their knowledge of the land because it becomes appropriated by the dominant culture. Luckily for us men like Stan see the benefits of sharing some knowledge, which I felt so lucky to learn first hand.
Yes you can hear the radio pgm on my website under 'audio'. I agree that many Abl people are wary of sharing some of their traditional knowledge and it is one of the reasons I have refrained from telling most of the Storywaters that I know about, out of respect for local Bama groups. However, if the Stories and knowledge is not recorded, then future generations may not have access to it and each 'tribal' group and fellow Australians may lose it completely, as has happened over a great deal of the continent. Judicious sharing (with approval of the Story owners) will hopefully aid in encouraging the broader Australian community to be proud of the ingenuity and intelligence of our Indigenous people and their clever occupation of the land over 65,000 years.
Thanks for the video, very interesting. The Native Americans used to manage the land by burning too. As they no longer do so, dry grasses etc build up, so when there is a fire, there is widespread devastation.
I envy the connection some people have with the land. It is easily lost.
Weren't they burning those flammable grasses in the first place? They created the propensity for destruction. No interaction with the land by humans has ever been favorable, and in the best cases, it has been devastating. That's why almost every large species of mammal native to this hemisphere has gone extinct. There are too many losses to count, and although many are the result of European atrocities, an equal part find their blame in indigenous ones.
Diabolical Artificer Hi, thank you for your encouraging words. The Wik people are still managing their lands as they have done for thousands of years. Unfortunately we have the problem in Oz too where the new comers know how to manage their bank accounts but are one might say morons when it comes to looking after the land.
@@HuckleberryHim they made this place perfectly liveable for themselves. Those 2019 fires were 230 years in the making. They also burned in mosaics so there was always food nearby. When you burn regularly, there isn't much fuel for the fire so it burns cold and quick. It also means animals survive unlike the 2019 bushfires. Read the biggest estate on earth by Bill Gammage.
@@2partiesnotpreferred226 Rather than asking what sort of a balance Aboriginal Australians achieved with their ecosystems, an equilibrium state where a little destruction staves off even greater destruction, we should ask what those ecosystems looked like even earlier, without humans.
How did their fires burn, if at all? What was the flora and fauna like? We can answer many of these questions, and the easiest (and most impressive) to answer is about fauna. We know Australia had dozens of species of very large animals, from multiple classes (birds, mammals, reptiles). They almost all vanished when humans arrived; that is destruction on a cataclysmic scale, but we tend to ignore it because the "new balance" is the only world we've ever known.
Simply put, the situation is like this: Australia was doing fine. Humans arrive, major upheaval, but they find a way to coexist in their radically altered new world (you really have to, don't you? If you never managed to find a way to sustainably coexist with your ecosystem, you'd go extinct). Humans arrive again much later, and they think this was the original condition, but it wasn't. Imagine if one day far more destructive aliens arrive, and we advocate keeping oil refineries open because they are less destructive than the alien technologies, maintain some sort of balance with the world, etc.
@@HuckleberryHim yeah so basically the colonists failed to acknowledge the intricate work of the first nations people. Assuming they know better. The environment has undergone major changes since colonization. The soils and rivers changed with the introduction of sheep and cattle. The sheep compacted the soft layer of top soil into hard ground that wouldn't absorb water which caused major flooding that hadn't been seen before. Lots of rivers and creeks were widened and filled with silt and destroying the river banks, these once clearwater river pebble streams turned into silt filled murky water. What Australia was like 65000 years ago we will never know. As for the extinction of some mammals, we don't know the cause, it could have been many things. The climate went through many changes. Could have just not been able to adapt to changing conditions. Perhaps they were a threat to humans like bears or tigers, hence they were hunted. We don't know. What we do know is 28 mammals have gone extinct since 1788. The first nations way may not have been perfect but they created perfect balance. By your logic we should just move all humans to mars. We continue with our destruction of land and waterways. The first nations people were at one with nature. We lock it up and separate ourselves from it. The first nations people were sustainable for 65000 years. We are struggling after 230 years. The effect they had on the environment was good. Our impact is devastating. We have people making decisions for the environment who have barely stepped out of Sydney. Insanity.
Now we know how those fires in Australia started
Excellent video
Why do they always make the people speak in native languages if they are capable of speaking English?
It's his language he doesn't have to speak English if you have a problem with it learn the language and respect people's culture and way of living
Indigenous people are their language. If they loose their language they loose their tradition ways and culture
Thank you for sharing. Hello from Western Canada
Thank you for your support, glad you enjoyed it.
Love watching this stuff. Please make more ❤
Thank you so much for your very informative video. You showed quite an array of information, both for survival and conservation as well as living off the land like your ancestors. The knowledge is yours and never forget that. From across the ditch.
Thanks for your support Kamau.
Them muscle looks really big and delicious
Thanks Emikiz.
Thanks brother
Australians
You have to be the healthiest and most radiant peaceful human I've ever seen, thank you for sharing yourself with us.
Thank you for your very thoughtful comment. Unfortunately Mr Kalkeeyorta, the presenter of this video, passed 3 years ago. Thankfully his presence is still felt today by his loved ones.
@@wikmedia15 I read this in the comments just after I posted this and I actually felt grateful to know he's with the older people who he said we're always in his mind. Thank YOU also for sharing this, it's beautiful.
@@I14Realok I just remembered this morning that yesterday was Mr Kalkeeyortas birthday. He loved that April 1st was his birthday as he was great at playing the fool.
@@wikmedia15 makes sense now. A massive thunder storm rolled through, it was beautiful... Now I wonder if the booming was the beats and the lightning was the strobe light, from the great corroboree in the sky to celebrate his day.
Lots of love from fiji
Big thank you from the western side of Cape York peninsula Queensland Australia👍🏾
You got a supermarket up there. Good stuff.
Yes we have and it's free👍🏾👍🏾
Excellent
some good tucker. That bloody blow fly while he was getting the mud shells
👍
This is a wonderful presentation of Culture and Heritage viewed from the inside, it shows why First Nations people have survived all that was done to remove them from land and destroy their culture all under the excuse of saving them from being savages and saving their souls with Christianity when the Land is our Religion and belonging to Country is our connection through story.
this is a wonderful legacy for all who follow and a true tribute to all First Nations generations Past, Present, and Future, Being the oldest continuous Culture proves that taking only what you need and being thank full for what you have is the true sustainability
Thank you AA for your thoughtful words about our film. Wik Media continues to create insightful films about our communities achievements, struggles and ancient knowledge. Today our communities have more challenges then ever before, we believe by creating and sharing our knowledge we can celebrate what we have to contribute.
the language is the most interesting to me
อยากได้เสือของลุงใสมากคับ ชอบๆ
So wonderful thank you
7:14 may kom (sand paper leaf)
10:04 may winchan (spear grass)
16:33 min ochangan (mud shell)
Found this impossible to read
love to you my brother
you walk past everything you learn because you smell the BBQ .
Do you need a hug Markiss? Love Dan
Relaxed, insightful 👌
Came here to say exactly that.
English preferred
Primitive people.