YULU’S COAL 2

Producer Liz Thompson
Senior Adnyamathnha Cultural Custodian and storyteller Cliff Coulthard
Adnyamathanha mentee Arthur Brady
Original recordings by Taz Miller and Liz Thompson, assisted by Gavin Spokes.
Sound Engineer Russell Stapleton
Executive Producer Claudia Taranto

SYNOPSIS

The stunning Northern Flinders Ranges Country belongs to the Adnyamathanha people. ‘Adnya’ means rock and ‘mathana’ means people – the Adnyamathana people are ‘the people of the rocks’.

Adnyamathanha songs, stories and Law are all part of the Yuramuda. This program is about the journey of one of the major Adnyamathanha Creation Ancestors, Yulu the Kingfisher Man. Yulu’s Coal, explores the travels of Yulu as he moved across Country, followed by two Arkurra , Giant Rainbow Serpents and why the coal mined at Leigh Creek Coal Mine today belongs, from an Adnyamathanha perspective, to Yulu, the Kingfisher Man.

In the second part of this series we will hear about how Wilpena Pound came into being from an Adnyamathanha perspective, the impact missionaries had on the practice of Adnyamathanha Law and culture, and more about the fascinating relationship that regularly exists between Indigenous and scientific understandings of the land before travelling out toward Mount Chambers to visit Yulu the Kingfisher Man’s final resting place.