Indigenous Health
Why is indigenous health so important? Here I must mention that I sat with a Gumbayngirr woman to discuss the words which could be placed under indigenous health. She urged me to talk about Australia, and what healing would mean. This continent still contains the oldest living culture on the planet, she emphasizes: “the knowledge we carry has been passed on from generation to generation for thousands of years.”
White and black need each other for the earth to be whole, healing is about being whole. “To me,” she explains, “this is where the healing is; our entire existence has been in connection with the earth, we are not separate from Country, we are made up of everything that is in the universe. We are a part of that wholeness, that’s our health,THE EARTH IS OUR HEALTH.” She points to a hill in the distance and says to me “What is that? What does that mean to you? That has energy, A SPIRIT and a story. You need to connect to land.”
