Roots for the Future

First Nations Bedtime Stories is fast approaching and kicking off tomorrow. Sign up is free and you get a packed resource filled with rich activities to unpack the experience with your class or family.

This year the stories are from Wiradjuri Country. As a Wiradjuri woman I couldn't feel prouder than to have worked with the deadliest bunch of Wiradjuri mob on this project. Wiradjuri man is the producer, director and editor of this year’s films. With resources created by deadly yinaa and that are mapped to the relevant education curriculums to ensure everyone can learn from these stories and appreciate their significance.

Special thanks to Uncle Neil Ingram, Ian 'Dougie' Sutherland and Ricky Ah-See for sharing these stories with us.

Every year works with First Nations communities to film five non-secret Dreaming stories, told by Elders and Knowledge Custodians. To join us, sign up at firstnationsbedtimestories.com 🧡

Exciting news for Primary School teachers!The Roots for the Future x Heal Country collab is here.

This toolkit it packed with activities and resources to start teaching about knowing Country, connecting with Country, and how with good allyship we can start to do our part to Heal Country.

Sprinkle activities throughout the school year or smash it all out in an engaging HASS and science based mini unit.

Head to IG bio to download your free kit 🖤💛❤ ✊🏼

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Exciting news! We have been working with Common Ground on a Primary school resource for NAIDOC week 2021.

The resource will help with planning lessons around this year's NAIDOC Week theme - Heal Country. ⁠
The theme calls for us to continue to seek greater protections for our lands, waters, sacred sites and cultural heritage from exploitation, desecration, and destruction.⁠
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The resource includes 3 sections: Knowing Country, Connecting to Country and Protecting Country. It can be used any time of the year, not just in NAIDOC Week. ⁠
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We'll be launching the resource next week. NAIDOC Week falls in the school holidays, giving you time to prepare lessons for when school returns.⁠

🌞 Tag your teacher friends 🌞
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Art and images from the deadly 💙

Isn't country just extraordinary?

👣 Location: Gundungurra and Darug Country

📸 Copyright Gary P Hayes 2021 All rights reserved

Mabo Day is a day to be celebrated and should be a National Public Holiday ✊🏼

June 3rd 1992 became Mabo Day after decades of Eddie Koiki Mabo's fight for land rights. The high court ruled in favour of the Mer Island man and finally the legal fiction of 'Terra Nullius' was proven to be just that.

A fight that began for Mer Island quickly spread to support Native Title battles across the many countries in this continent.

I want to remind you today to reflect on where we have come from but also that there is Land Rights and Native Title battles going on all over First Nations countries.

We need allies to stand up alongside us and amplify voices already in this space.

⚡Link in bio to read more about Mabo Day from Eddie's deadly granddaughter Peta Duncan.⚡

🖤💛❤ National Sorry Day May 26th. Sorry means we admit our wrongdoing and we don't do it again.

24 years after the Bringing Them Home Report and Aboriginal children are still being taken in huge numbers. 13 years after the government said sorry and we know this is still happening.

Text from Sorry Day hand made by child, reading from thumb to pinky.
* Sorry
* Stop stealing our kids
* Stop taking our culture
* Stop taking our language
* Stop taking our land

It's time now to start these conversations with ourselves, our loved ones, and in our classrooms ✊🏼