Oral Histories

Elder Doolann Leisha talks about Noongar people working together to protect children from being removed

Elder Doolann Leisha Eatts talks about her earliest memories of being Nyungah

Elder Doolann Leisha Eatts talks about her father working on farms and getting ‘rooked’ (cheated)

Elder Doolann Leisha Eatts talks about her totem the bobtail

Elder Doolann Leisha Eatts talks about hunting and gathering

Elder Doolann Leisha Eatts talks about her Grandmother’s story of contact with the Europeans

Elder Doolann Leisha Eatts talks about Noongar ways of knowing

Pop Gus Ryder talks about the Northam floods, 1949 or 50

Pop Gus Ryder talks about a lily that grew on the grave of his grandmother

Pop Gus Ryder talks about his father teaching him how to hunt & trapping with wild ponies

Pop Gus Ryder talks about his infinite love of family

Pop Gus Ryder talks about his mother buying a home

Pop Gus Ryder talks about his parents working around the Northam area

Pop Gus Ryder reads his poem My Miya Miya Home

Kayang (Hazel) Brown talks about bush tucker

Kayang (Hazel) Brown talks about family

Kayang (Hazel) Brown talks about getting food from farms

Kayang (Hazel) Brown talks about making fire

Kayang (Hazel) Brown talks about respecting the Elders

Kayang (Hazel) Brown talks about the foods available growing up

Joe Northover talks about Minningup Pool on the Collie River

Joe Northover talks about childhood, and his family living in the bush

Joe Northover talks about Citizenship Papers, part 1

Joe Northover talks about Citizenship papers, part 2

Joe Northover talks about different types of berries

Joe Northover talks about family celebrations

Joe Northover talks about his Mum’s work for Native Welfare

Joe Northover talks about his work as a police officer and school teacher

Joe Northover talks about his work for the Australian High Commission in Papua New Guinea and as a healthworker in Alice Springs

Joe Northover talks about work on farms with his parents, picking spuds, shearing, getting his license and buying a car

Joe Northover talks about working as an Ambulance Officer and State Emergency Service volunteer

Martha Borinelli talks about escaping the mission and going bush

Martha Borinelli nee Taylor talks about how the Government gathered Noongars together at New Norcia and Moore River Native Settlement during WWII

Martha Borinelli talks about setting up an Aboriginal dart team

Martha Borinelli talks about the Noongar culture of sharing

Martha Borinelli talks about eating bush food as a child

Peter Farmer snr. talks about Damper and Dip

Peter Farmer snr. talks about sharing kangaroo meat

Peter Farmer snr. talks about using tools to scrape kangaroo skin

Roma Loo talks about the Coolbaroo Club dances

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