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Fierce Girls

Yukultji Napangati – the girl who made her world shimmer

Fierce Girls

ABC listen

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 β€’ 930 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a B.C. podcast.

0:04.0

Ninemani, Nainai Tiana,

0:07.1

Nagananai Gungabina.

0:09.1

Hello, are you good?

0:10.7

My name is Tiana.

0:12.1

My Ghana name is Gungabina, which means the caring one.

0:15.8

To begin, it's important that we acknowledge the country that we are on.

0:21.6

I'm on Ghanaianata the lands of the Ghana people of the Adelaide Plains.

0:26.6

We would like to pay our respects to the custodians, to the ancestors that nurtured the land and the elders that have led the way for generations.

0:37.6

This is your land, this is your country, it has always been Aboriginal land.

0:42.7

And as this is a podcast whose reach is far and wide,

0:46.8

we would like to extend our respect to the elders of the lands

0:51.0

this recording might reach. of the of Yoko G Nappingasi, the girl who made her world shimmer, read by Arsis Atong Aten. Poo.

1:20.0

It was unmistakable. The smell of poo. It was unmistakable. The smell of poo wafting through the desert air. But it wasn't

1:27.0

Gowanna poo, or Bilbi poo, or dingo poo. It wasn't even feral cat poo.

1:35.0

It was human poo.

1:40.0

Yakuj's brothers smelt it.

1:44.0

They grabbed their spears and left their family to investigate.

1:48.0

Yakuji Nupengardi was 14.

1:52.0

Before she was born the Australian government started rounding up

1:56.4

her tribe, the Pinterpy mob. The government moved the desert people into

2:01.9

communities but they didn't get everyone.

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