As we move through Reconciliation Week, we remember how much Australias First Peoples have to teach us. In this blog, Jazlie Davis Grygoruk reflects on what she learned about motherhood from the Yolŋu people of North East Arnhem Land. In the Yolŋu kinship system a child will call their mother ŋäṉḏi and all their mother’s sisters ŋäṉḏi, so everyone has multiple mothers. Equally, every woman has multiple children or waku, some are her biological children and some are not, but her responsibility to care for them is the same regardless. The system produces a wonderfully organic support network for mums - nobody ever does mothering on their own. Read more at the link. #reconciliationweek #reconciliation #forTomorrow
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 08:00:00 +0000
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