Mirarr
The Aboriginal -Clan the Mirarr-Gundjeihmi lives in the Australian Northern Territory . Her elder is Yvonne Margarula , who received the International Environment Award from Friends of the Earth and the Nuclear-Free Future Award in 1998 for her work against uranium mining , as well as the 1999 US Goldman Environmental Prize .
country
Anthropologists have found that the Mirarr have lived in their land for more than 40,000 years. Your country is not exactly delimited from other Aboriginal clans. It extends over the area of the Jabiluka and Ranger uranium mine , the area of the mining town of Jabiru , Mount Brockman and parts of the Kakadu National Park and the adjacent mudflats.
The Mirarr were given their ancestral land back in 1976 under the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act 1976 . They have a strong bond with the land of their ancestors and their spiritual places, which is why they are against the uranium mining in their country, which has been taking place there for more than 25 years. They were able to prevent the Jabiluka mine from being built through violent protests, but they had not been able to prevent the Ranger uranium mine from opening and Jabiru from being built. Your land rights are represented by Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation , particularly vis-à-vis the mining company. Kakadu National Park is managed by a federal agency, Park Australia, together with the Bininj clan.
The Mirarr clan consists of 26 adults, many of whom have learned neither to write nor to read.
The Ranger uranium mine is surrounded by Kakadu National Park and was designed so that it did not destroy any spiritual places.
language
Most of the Mirarr speak three Aboriginal languages and English. They hold ceremonies with dancing and singing that express their relationship with their traditional country, families and clans. The names they give themselves express their connection to the country. Some of their spiritual places are temporarily closed to access and they believe that an intrusion into their country or the destruction of their country will have fatal consequences for the people in their region.
Individual evidence
- ↑ mirrar.net The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation retrieved 26 February 2011
- ↑ a b c mirrar.net ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The History of Binninj Opposition to Uranium Mining, accessed February 25, 2011
- ↑ mirarr.net ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Location of Sacred Site Complexes, accessed February 25, 2011
