ABORIGINAL WAY NEWS

During Reconciliation Week 2021, Aboriginal Way attended the first AIATSIS Summit at the Adelaide Convention Centre. This was a combination of the National Native Title Conference and Indigenous Research Conference usually held separately. Delegates from around the country attended the summit, where academics, legal experts, and community sectors shared the … Read More

Hear about Brian Butler’s lifelong devotion to healing the harm caused by the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Brian’s new book ‘Sorry and Beyond: Healing the Stolen Generations’ exposes the Australian government’s policies which aimed to destroy the identity of Indigenous children by taking … Read More

Tuthangga (Park 17) Adelaide was the site of the first cultural burn in an Australian capital city and the first on Kaurna Yerta in 200 years. The Kaurna community, City of Adelaide, Green Adelaide and the Department for Environment and Water have been working together to make this cultural burn … Read More

SA Native Title Services is the publisher of Aboriginal Way – we assist Aboriginal people in South Australia to gain recognition and to protect their native title rights and interests. While on a recent work trip, we spoke to Mick Starkey, our Cultural Heritage and Land Management Senior Project Officer. … Read More

Shane Mankitya Cook is a Wulli Wulli and Guwa descendant from Queensland. He was adopted by the Kaurna community in Adelaide and given the name Mankitya, which translates to “the scarred one”. Over a coffee, near his studio at Black Diamond Tattoo, we talk about his life as an Aboriginal … Read More