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52 300 944 909 PO Box 111, Roebourne WA 6718 Archive ManagerLorraine Coppin Tel 08 9182 1497/1141 Mob 0429 680 255 lcoppin@juluwarlu.com.au On-Line Archive Manager & ResearcherNoelene Harrison nienna@iinet.net.au www.juluwarlu.com.au

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ENABLING NGAARDA TO SUSTAIN A CULTURAL LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

1. The Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation is a cultural organization dedicated to preserving, recording and promulgating of the culture of the Yindjibarndi people. Juluwarlu has a history of more than ten years of service to the community of Roebourne, and particularly, the Yindjibarndi community. 2. The Juluwarlu cultural recording and archiving project was initiated by Lorraine Coppin in the Ngurrawaana Community in the Yindjibarndi tablelands in 1998 with Yindjibarndi elder Woodley King and Michael Woodley, and was formally incorporated in 2000. 3. Over the past 12 years, Juluwarlu, in close partnership with and guidance from our elders, and with the assistance and partnership of many supportive individuals and organizations (government, resource corporations, community organizations, and local, state and national institutions), has developed from a small scale, subsistence-funded (CDEP), cultural recording organization, into a thriving archiving, publishing, digital media, television broadcasting, media training, and cultural consultancy enterprise. 4. The steady development of Juluwarlu has involved recruitment of both Indigenous and nonIndigenous specialists and professional staff, and the inauguration of training programs for local indigenous people seeking to learn Information Technology, Archiving and Media skills. 5. We have undertaken extensive fieldwork research and cultural recording programs; Yindjibarndi language preservation and generation projects, and built a media production centre to consolidate inhouse production. 6. In 2005 Juluwarlu attained an Indigenous Open Narrow Cast (ONC) television license and initiated broadcast of local and relayed Indigenous programs. 7. A radio studio was established at Juluwarlu in 2006 to host local (Roebourne) presenters within Gumala Radio; and a successful application to The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) by Juluwarlu will establish locally based Indigenous radio stations for Roebourne and Karratha in 2013. 8. Other key activities include book publication; the consolidation of a physical archive and installation of a digital archive interface (licensed from Ara Irititja); and expansion of service provision into consultancy and fee for service work within and beyond the local community. 9. After more than a decade of effort, the Juluwarlu cultural archive holds thousands of articles including maps and documents, reports and dissertations, historical photographs and family snaps, books, genealogical charts, anthropological and archaeological papers, maps, artefacts, and hundreds of hours of both archival and original video and sound recordings. The materials have been redeemed from linguists, anthropologists, former teachers, pastoralists, community welfare officers, policemen, business people, former townspeople, filmmakers, libraries, museums, Indigenous affairs bodies and other institutional databases. The vast bulk of our collection, however, comprises contemporary materials recorded and created over the past 10 years. 10. The immense achievement of the organization includes the production of over fifty community video productions that have covered subjects as diverse as cultural and genealogical history, creation mythology, language, the fauna and flora of Yindjibarndi country, local history, health, traditional foods, traditions of hunting and gathering, eulogies for the deceased, customary Law and traditions
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of Respect, native title heritage clearance surveys, domestic violence and substance abuse prevention, presentations to the National Native Title Tribunal, youth leadership, and current affairs. See for example: Juluwarlu Journey Wanggangarra... that which gives life Mayaringbungu A Beautiful Mind When the Ground Is Hard, Yindjibarndi Dance Most particularly, Juluwarlu has organised a series of cultural mapping fieldwork projects that have taken Yindjibarndi elders and their extended families into all quarters of Yindjibarndi country to document their cultural knowledge and history of association. The videoed, audio recorded and photographed records made on these trips are unprecedented in their scope and of inestimable value, not to just the Yindjibarndi, but all Australians who value and wish to share in knowledge that speaks of Yindjibarndi country and Indigenous experience over many generations. Juluwarlus Open Narrow Cast television license (awarded in July 2005), dubbed NTV (Ngaarda Television), broadcasts local content directly, and relays the National Indigenous Television (NITV) during week days, and Indigenous Community Television (ICTV) during weekends to a population of about 6000 people not just in Roebourne, but also in Wickham, Point Samson, Cossack, the Roebourne Regional Prison and several satellite communities. Ngaarda Radio broadcasts several locally presented Indigenous and Maori programs, and rebroadcasts the National Radio Indigenous Radio Service (NIRS) to local communities. In order to cross-subsidise its cultural activities, Juluwarlu has undertaken commissioned and corporate, and fee for service media work for clients including Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Woodside Energy, Ngaarda Civil & Mining, Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Foundation, Yaandina Family Care Centre, Mawarnkarra Aboriginal Medical Service, Marnda Mia Central Negotiating Committee (CNC), Department of Water, Roebourne Hospital, and the Shire of Roebourne. In 2005 and 2006 Juluwarlu managed the Community Consultancy and Feasibility Study for the Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Foundation Ltd (NYFL) Cultural Centre project; and from 2006-08 JAC held the contract to manage the Warrgamugardi YirdiyaburaPathways to Employment Program for the NYFL. JuIuwarlu has also undertaken valued community-based arts and cultural wellbeing programs, provided cross cultural awareness training to state and local government service providers and the private sector including: Woodside, Department of Conservation and Land Management, the Shire of Roebourne, Victoria Hotel/Motel and Pilbara Native Title Service, and provided regular cultural awareness programs and activities to local primary and secondary schools. Juluwarlus crowning achievement has been the production and publication of a series of high quality books Wanggalili Yindjibarndi and Ngarluma Plants, 2003; Know the Song, Know the Country, 2004; Garruragan, Yindjibarndi Fauna, 2005; Ngurra Warndurala Buluyugayi Nhankangunha - Exploring Yindjibarndi Country Millstream, 2007; Ngurra Warndurala Buluyugayi Wuyumarri, Exploring Yindjibarndi Country Gregory Gorge, 2008; and Ngurra Warndurala Buluyugayi Yawajunha (Harding Dam/Lockyers Gorge) 2012. The publication of a further book Ngurra Warndurala Buluyugayi Winjiwarra (Hooley Station), is pending. See Juluwarlu Shop. In 2007 Juluwarlu was nominated as the auspice administrative body of Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC); and in 2009 was also elected by the satellite Yindjibarndi communities of Ngurrawaana and Cheeditha to service their administration. This alliance, encompassing Juluwarlu, Cheeditha, Ngurrawaana and YAC, unites the most significant and long-lived Yindjibarndi organisations, and represents a strong record of achievement with minimal resources.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION 1. In a wider, professional context, Juluwarlu has won the acknowledgement and respect of archivists, museum workers, linguists, and anthropologists across Australia, and is routinely consulted on matters concerning cultural recording, archiving and cultural retrieval. 2. The Juluwarlu archive is acknowledged as the most significant of its kind in Western Australia by Greg Wallace, former Manager Museum Assistance Program, Western Australian Museum. 3. In mid-2007 archivist/librarian Jennifer Ford was contracted to map the extent of the archive and make recommendations for the consolidation and systematisation of cataloguing. In writing her report Ford remarked: The Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation Archive is a collection of great significance to local
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Indigenous and non- Indigenous people, and has state significance as one of few such archives in Western Australia and similar national importance, again as one of few such archives in Australia. She went on to say that the work of Juluwarlu in sustaining the collection and recording of local cultural and social history was invaluable for recording and preserving an authentic history of Yindjibarndi traditional and contemporary life. She also observed that the most effective and appropriate contemporary methods and media technology are used in this work. 1 The recording work of Juluwarlu with Yindjibarndi Elders was acknowledged in 2005 when its principal cultural workers, Ned Cheedy and his wife Cherry, were honoured with the Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre Individual Contribution to Pilbara Aboriginal Language Maintenance and Promotion award for their work with Juluwarlu in gathering and transmission of knowledge. Juluwarlu was also honoured with the Wangka Maya award for Promotion of Pilbara Aboriginal Languages Through Media for publishing three books and recording close to 100 hours of video with Elders, and for establishing Ngaarda Television. In 2006 Juluwarlu was awarded first place in the Federal Ministers Award for Excellence for an Employer of Australian Apprentices for the North Western Australia Region. Juluwarlu was awarded this prize ahead of other contenders like Rio Tinto and Goolarri Media Enterprises, and was the only Indigenous winner at the awards presentation in Sydney. (Also notable was the fact that there were no other media-centred business in the inventory of winners from other regions around the country). In October 2006 JAC screened 15 of their video productions at the 8th National Remote Indigenous Media Festival at Wirrimanu (Balgo) and won several awards, including Best Language & Culture Video (for Wanggangarra), Best Emerging Male Talent in Media, Tyson Mowarin, Best Promotional Video (for Kicking the Can), and Best Emerging Female Talent (Tenellia Lockyer). In 2009 Juluwarlu won the award for Best Documentary (for Juluwarlu Journey) and in 2011 was again awarded again with Best Hunting, Cooking & Bush Food Award (for Spinifex Fishing), and Best Student Video award (for Money Hole). In 2010 Mr Woodley co-directed "BirndiWirndi" (meaning 'Worlds Apart') with IASKA artist in residence at Juluwarlu, Sohan Ariel Hayes, which was projected on to the facade of the old Victoria Hotel, and is currently being shown in IASKA Art Out of Place exhibitions across Australia. In 2011, Michael Woodley and Lorraine Coppin produced the dramatised documentary Two Worlds for the ABC-TV series Deadly Yarns, which also screened in the nationally toured Message Sticks Festival.

8. Juluwarlus achievements so impressed the States screen development and support agency, Screen West, that they sponsored Juluwarlu to conduct a workshop (dubbed Capturing Community Stories) for Indigenous people from around the state who wished to utilize media in promulgating their culture. After the workshop Screen Wests online news bulletin noted: The Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation is being acknowledged as Western Australias, and possibly Australias, leading centre for gathering Indigenous oral culture with digital image and archiving. 2 9. In 2006 the business achievements and managerial proficiency of Juluwarlu were recognised by an award to its CEO, Michael Woodley, of a Western Australian 40Under40 Business Award. This is an annual award to 40 business people under the age of 40 in WA. Woodley was the only Indigenous recipient in 2006. One of the 40Under40 judges, business development manager for the North West Shelf, Daniel Bathe, commented: I happened to visit Roebourne while on business in Karratha the week after the awards and I was able to see what Michael is doinghes certainly trying to make a difference in extremely challenging circumstances.3 10. In June 2011, National Museum of Australia senior curator, Dr Ian Coates, visited Juluwarlu to facilitate the repatriation of copies of photographs, artifacts and body ornaments of Yindjibarndi and other Pilbara tribes, collected in the late 1800s and early 1900s by mining entrepreneur Emile Clements. These are currently distributed in British and European museums. 11. In 2011, Yindjibarndi elder, 105 year old Ned Cheedy, was awarded the most prestigious national NAIDOC prize, the Lifetime Achievement Award, for his dedicated cultural recording work for Juluwarlu and the Yindjibarndi people.
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Ford, Jennifer, Archive Statement of Significance, 2007 ScreenWest Web Site, News, 16 August 2007, http://www.screenwest.wa.gov.au/go/news/capturing-communitystories-workshop-a-success (accessed 16/3/2009) 3 Trunkline, Woodside Energy Limited magazine: Michaels already a winner, Q2 2006
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