Juluwarlu has long recognised the complexities in meeting the aims of sustaining Law, Language, Knowledge, Culture, Country and Community Wellbeing when interconnections between extreme health burdens, early deaths, grief, poverty, intergenerational trauma, housing, education, under-employment, prejudice, negative mainstream media reports, and the unreliable availability of government and NGO services impact upon the lives and wellbeing of 431 families and everyone in our local communities.
Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation (Juluwarlu) was established in 2000 by forward-thinking Yindjibarndi Elders with the goal of maintaining and supporting Yindjibarndi Law, Knowledge, Language, Culture, Country and families in the contemporary world. Over the past 20 years, Juluwarlu’s committed Elders, Traditional Owners and Families established an acclaimed Archive that sustains our Yindjibarndi knowledge, coordinated award-winning Language Maintenance programs, undertaken the cultural mapping of our country with Elders and families, produced documentaries, published six high quality bi-lingual books, initiated and managed our Ngaarda Media & Broadcast Centre, partnered a three year Murdoch University Indigenous women’s research project, and carried out community-based arts for wellbeing projects for 20 years. All of this has been achieved despite enduring long term, continuing and challenging socio-economic circumstances that have impacted upon families living in the Roebourne and the Cheeditha and Ngurrawaana communities.
Although this work ensured Yindjibarndi won their Native Title struggle, we are concerned that family caring relationships of are still over-whelmed as under-educated local adults and young people slip into drug and alcohol fuelled lifestyles that affect everyone - their children’s lives, every member of their extended families, particularly the lives of our caring Elders.
Our proposed Research Project will:
- document, evaluate and reflect upon Juluwarlu’s contributions to Yindjibarndi-determined cultural resilience and resurgence over the past 20 years in order to ensure we are providing the best support for everyone.
- qualitatively evaluate our past and current 8 intergenerational and youth cultural resilience programming in order to better ensure that we provide opportunities for resilient futures for our young and future generations.
- adhere to principles of Indigenous Data Governance (IDG), Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS) and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP).
- involve qualitative ethnographic methodologies including interview-based case studies, participatory action and observation, focus groups, and workshops
- draw upon Juluwarlu’s historical, archival documents, audio and video recordings and photographs.
Outcomes
- Documenting and evaluating the successes and challenges of Juluwarlu’s 20 year community-based Indigenous-led cultural resurgence programs will provide a powerful resource for our own and national community-based leadership and community-led decision making.
- Evaluating the effectiveness of our Indigenous-led Culturally focused Community Creative Arts Programming (2016-2021) providing intergenerational health and wellbeing, and much needed arts income to Yindjibarndi families.
- Documentation and evaluation of Juluwarlu’s 2019-2021 Youth Skills creative arts programs tis designed to ensure we are building culturally rich skills, self-confidence, caring relationships and local and national opportunities for cultural economy employment.
Juluwarlu and Yindjibarndi people will then have a full account and evaluation of their commitment to 20 years of Cultural Resurgence Projects and Programs which will be made available to policy makers.
Output(s)
There are no listed outputs for this project.