Poems About Nature
Task:
Be inspired by our Same Path - Different Stories incursion, excursion and historical narrative to create a poem to celebrate the NAIDOC week theme - heal country. You will collect media to connect to this theme and your poem will act as the voice over of your movie.
Guidelines:
- Your poem must contain at least 10 tier two words
- It does not have to rhyme
- It should include details and be inspired by what you have learned
- May contain your own or media shared with permission
- It must contain the lines "same path - different stories" and "heal country"
- It needs to contain the entire, or snippets of the Noongar songs you learnt.
Be inspired by our Same Path - Different Stories incursion, excursion and historical narrative to create a poem to celebrate the NAIDOC week theme - heal country. You will collect media to connect to this theme and your poem will act as the voice over of your movie.
Guidelines:
- Your poem must contain at least 10 tier two words
- It does not have to rhyme
- It should include details and be inspired by what you have learned
- May contain your own or media shared with permission
- It must contain the lines "same path - different stories" and "heal country"
- It needs to contain the entire, or snippets of the Noongar songs you learnt.
Same Path - Different Story
Admiring the trees as they gently dance in the wind
Crunching pebbles under my shoes
Admiring the trees as they gently dance in the wind
Crunching pebbles under my shoes
Notes from Kings Park
Kaarta Koomba Excursion (Kings Park) YEAR 4 25 May 2021
Wonnil - peppermint tree - can be used as a decongestive called bush vicks - Noongar people used to boiling the leaves in hot water
This can also be used as an Insect repellent as well as an antiseptic
http://www.sercul.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BushTuckerFactSheet_PeppermintTree.pdf
Kaarta Koomba is the Noongar name for Kings Park meaning Special hills
Moora karta means black hills
Banksia plants are called mangitch in Noongar https://anthropologyfromtheshed.com/project/the-consumption-of-banksia-nectar-in-traditional-noongar-society/
Djeran is the season the banksias flower in
Spiky leaves to protect them from big animals but this lets the small pollinators in - flowers for pollinators
Noongar would use the nectar to make a sweet cordial to drink with boiling water
Banksia have tough small leaves so they conserve water in our hot environment
Ants take the seed with the green plant material down to their nest- to eat and inadvertly plant banksia seeds
Zamia is called Djiriji in Noongar and its fluff was used as a fire starter as well as a lantern when sling tin in banksia seed pods
Djiriji fruits in Djeran - used for food but needs to be treated before it can be eaten - Noongar women had this knowledge hoe to get the poison out and grind it up to make flour - high sugar n protein
Zamia seeds have red seeds - Red seeds are warning - red - dead in nature
https://anthropologyfromtheshed.com/project/the-ancient-practice-of-macrozamia-pit-processing-in-southwestern-australia/
http://www.australiasomuchtosee.com/macrozamia.htm
Karta Koomba (Kings Park) was the place of women’s business during the day. The business was having babies - men had to seek separate permission from women to visit during the day. At night though the whole family would come together in Karta Koomba
Starting fires is men’s business
Moodjar is the West Australian Christmas a parasite which lives off hosts
It roots can be up to 150m long as it steals the nutrients from other trees.
Noongar people would dig up the roots and use it for a sweet treat to chew. There wasn’t much sweet bush tucker. When Moodjar flowers it is an indicator that Birak has started.
https://anthropologyfromtheshed.com/project/traditional-significance-of-nuytsia-floribunda-mooja-or-kaanya-tree%EF%BB%BF/
Marri tree - nuts, sap - myat - sap antiseptic
Marri seeds 4 chambers - honky nuts
Ants help in planting it by taking it down to the nest to eat the foliage
Can be used as a whistle
Can be used as a weapon to be launched on a stick
Beedawong meeting place a clearing
Yonga - kangaroos
Aboriginal people believed you only take what you need
Kylie is a boomerang 🪃 used for hunting
Keech is a spear
Younga booka is a kangaroo skin which is treated so it is Waterproof
And used for Clothes, bag, babies,
Noongar make Kangaroo poo superglue - with Marri sap, kangaroo poo
Symbols - campfire, kangaroo tracks
Kerbein is the Coastal Sword Sedge found in wetlands is used by Noongar people for weaving fishing nets so the big fish could escape but the little ones were caught
https://www.sercul.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BushTuckerFactSheet_CoastalSwordSedge.pdf
Additional information:
Whadjuk Noongar are people from the swan river coastal plain
Noongar people - from Geraldton down to the south west of Western Australia
Boodja - country
Boorloo - Perth
More info on Bush tucker: https://www.sercul.org.au/our-projects/bushtucker/
Speaking Noongar
https://noongarboodjar.com.au/education-and-training/for-families/speaking-noongar/
This is also interesting - trails that use QR codes enabling one to listen to Aboriginal stories and songs https://whadjukwalkingtrails.org.au
Wonnil - peppermint tree - can be used as a decongestive called bush vicks - Noongar people used to boiling the leaves in hot water
This can also be used as an Insect repellent as well as an antiseptic
http://www.sercul.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BushTuckerFactSheet_PeppermintTree.pdf
Kaarta Koomba is the Noongar name for Kings Park meaning Special hills
Moora karta means black hills
Banksia plants are called mangitch in Noongar https://anthropologyfromtheshed.com/project/the-consumption-of-banksia-nectar-in-traditional-noongar-society/
Djeran is the season the banksias flower in
Spiky leaves to protect them from big animals but this lets the small pollinators in - flowers for pollinators
Noongar would use the nectar to make a sweet cordial to drink with boiling water
Banksia have tough small leaves so they conserve water in our hot environment
Ants take the seed with the green plant material down to their nest- to eat and inadvertly plant banksia seeds
Zamia is called Djiriji in Noongar and its fluff was used as a fire starter as well as a lantern when sling tin in banksia seed pods
Djiriji fruits in Djeran - used for food but needs to be treated before it can be eaten - Noongar women had this knowledge hoe to get the poison out and grind it up to make flour - high sugar n protein
Zamia seeds have red seeds - Red seeds are warning - red - dead in nature
https://anthropologyfromtheshed.com/project/the-ancient-practice-of-macrozamia-pit-processing-in-southwestern-australia/
http://www.australiasomuchtosee.com/macrozamia.htm
Karta Koomba (Kings Park) was the place of women’s business during the day. The business was having babies - men had to seek separate permission from women to visit during the day. At night though the whole family would come together in Karta Koomba
Starting fires is men’s business
Moodjar is the West Australian Christmas a parasite which lives off hosts
It roots can be up to 150m long as it steals the nutrients from other trees.
Noongar people would dig up the roots and use it for a sweet treat to chew. There wasn’t much sweet bush tucker. When Moodjar flowers it is an indicator that Birak has started.
https://anthropologyfromtheshed.com/project/traditional-significance-of-nuytsia-floribunda-mooja-or-kaanya-tree%EF%BB%BF/
Marri tree - nuts, sap - myat - sap antiseptic
Marri seeds 4 chambers - honky nuts
Ants help in planting it by taking it down to the nest to eat the foliage
Can be used as a whistle
Can be used as a weapon to be launched on a stick
Beedawong meeting place a clearing
Yonga - kangaroos
Aboriginal people believed you only take what you need
Kylie is a boomerang 🪃 used for hunting
Keech is a spear
Younga booka is a kangaroo skin which is treated so it is Waterproof
And used for Clothes, bag, babies,
Noongar make Kangaroo poo superglue - with Marri sap, kangaroo poo
Symbols - campfire, kangaroo tracks
Kerbein is the Coastal Sword Sedge found in wetlands is used by Noongar people for weaving fishing nets so the big fish could escape but the little ones were caught
https://www.sercul.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BushTuckerFactSheet_CoastalSwordSedge.pdf
Additional information:
Whadjuk Noongar are people from the swan river coastal plain
Noongar people - from Geraldton down to the south west of Western Australia
Boodja - country
Boorloo - Perth
More info on Bush tucker: https://www.sercul.org.au/our-projects/bushtucker/
Speaking Noongar
https://noongarboodjar.com.au/education-and-training/for-families/speaking-noongar/
This is also interesting - trails that use QR codes enabling one to listen to Aboriginal stories and songs https://whadjukwalkingtrails.org.au