Adnyamathanthana

as I mentioned earlier my Dad is Adnyamathanthana, as I am I. I decided to add some more information about this. For example our tribal anmes translates as "Rock people". We are not as well known as other groups but we have a few groups helping with the advancement of that; the Aboriginal choir that my Gran and a few of my Aunts are involved with.

As for the sights, there is Wilpena Pound which is important to us then and still is now; "Aboriginal people have lived in the Flinders Ranges for tens of thousands of years. For many groups, most notably the Adnyamathanha, the Ranges are still of enormous significance today" (wilpena pound website).

WIlpena Pound is closely connected a Dreamtime story that we re enacted as a class for tourists who visited out local Visitor's Information Centre. They also seemed pleased with it. Probably because it is one of the more pleasant of our stories. We have our own version of the Boogeyman (if you will) who is called the Kardachi Man. As with most religious stoires,there are those who believe and those who do not; my Father does not but one of his cousins do. His fear is so real that he will  always leave an outside light on. Once, I turned off said light and he would not go outside until morning, I did not know he was that scared. I felt pretty bad.

There are some songs that make light of the Kardachi Man (I may have spellt that wrong) but they were released around Port Augusta on tape over a decade ago and are quite hard to find.

Anyway for a more personalised account you would be better advised to ask some one older than I who has more knowledge on the subject. However, if you wish to peruse a less personal, more academic/textbook account than the following websites are quite useful.

Indigenous Australiania, 2011, Oracle THinkQuest, accessed 24/10/2011, (http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115620/)

Wilpena Pound resort, 2011, Hawker, accessed 24/10/2011 (http://www.wilpenapound.com.au/location/).