5/24/2023 0 Comments War dance haka text![]() By his action he has very publicly taken the lid off and revealed some of the original Australian culture and that could help us all know ourselves in a far deeper and more real way. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of our conversation was in Yolŋu Matha, the language of the Yolŋu people in Arnhem Land.Īs a number of Yolŋu watched Adam Goodes perform on TV after he kicked the goal, they were excited because it was great for their culture to be represented there on the big screen. She was asking me to write the article because English is my first language not hers. “Well here in Arnhem Land in the NT we call what Adam performed ‘balyunmirr’.ĭianne continued, “You need to write something to explain that Australia does have a haka, in fact many of them”. I recently got a phone call from Dianne Biritjalawuy Gondarra where she asked me, “What picture do you get when you hear the word balyunmirr? ” Her call was sparked by all the controversy over Adam Goodes doing what some people call “a war dance” or a “war cry”. The following has been written by Richard Trudgen with coaching from Djiniyini & Dianne Biritjalawuy Gondarra, Dhulumburr Gayakamangu, Yingiya Guyula and & Maratja Dhamarrandji.
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