History:
Pilot Project (April - September 2000)
Yalu'
Mar\githinyaraw
The development of the pilot project
Yalu' Mar\githinyaraw, was a direct outcome of the participatory
action research project "Exploring
the Connections".
Yalu' Mar\githinyaraw, would be
run for and by Yol\u people using traditional Yol\u clan
structures of governance and management.
- April 2000, this community
driven proposal was funded as a trial project for
6 months after a visit to Galiwin'ku by the Directors
and Business
Manager of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal
and Tropical Health
- Initial research team was L^wurrpa Maypilama, Dianne
Biritjalawuy, Dorothy Bepuka, and Dorothy Yu\girri\a
- Three mini projects; guku (wild honey), [i\u (cycad
damper) and nyoka' (mud crab)
- Working with old grey haired people, using an action
research model, researchers collected information
about hunting practices, stories, dances, paintings and songs
- These were then used as a way to explain to Yol\u
about health and education both ways, Balanda and Yol\u
 More
information about the pilot project activities is available
here.
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