NAIDOC – Yukultji Napangati: the girl who made her world shimmer

Fierce Girls

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Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Yukultji Napangati grew up with no contact with the outside world. Just her and her family, living on a shimmery salt lake. She learned how to live on Country, how to find food, water, and shelter. She was a particularly great hunter. When she turned 14, everything changed. She saw her first other humans, and saw a car for the first time. She had been brought to live with other people from her mob, and here she found out she was really good at something else too, painting. It used to be men’s only business, but by the time Yukultji picked up her first paintbrush, it was something women in her community would do too.

Her stroke was unique. It was special. It made her work shimmer just like the salt lake she grew up on. And her paintings now hang on the walls of some of the most famous people in the world.

Narrated by artist Atong Atem.

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0:00.0	This is an ABC podcast.
0:05.0	Kaya, non- curl Millie Rose,
0:07.1	Nand wood it's cooling.
0:08.6	Hi, I'm Millie Rose. I'm a fierce girl.
0:11.5	We recognize Aboriginal and Torres Australian Islander peoples as the first
0:16.1	peoples of this place, now known as Australia. We are grateful for the continuing care of the
0:21.6	lands, waterways and skies.
0:24.0	From here on Nongar country and from wherever you are listening.
0:28.0	We respect the elders of the past and present.
0:31.0	Yes. Fierce.
0:34.0	Go power.
0:35.0	Hi, I'm Shari Sevens.
0:38.0	I'm an actor and director and a proud Bardi Jubber woman.
0:42.0	We're celebrating Naidoc week here at Fierce
0:44.1	girls headquarters and I've selected some of my favorite stories about fierce
0:48.9	first nations women for you to listen to. Happy Naidok Week and enjoy the story.
0:57.0	This is the story of Yoko G Napping Gatti, the girl who made her world shimmer, read by Arsis Atong A-10. poo.
1:15.0	it was unmistakable, the smell of poo
1:21.0	wafting through the desert air.
1:24.2	But it wasn't Goanna poo, or Bilb poo, or dingo poo.
1:30.8	It wasn't even feral cat poo.
1:36.0	It was human poo.
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