Reconciliation Week

I am proud to be Aboriginal because we have a lot of Indigenous leaders to look up to. Some role models I look up to are Ms Lia and Mr Jayden, they are both very big role models in my life and to have them teach culture makes me feel good. Coming to MITS has helped me be more strong in my culture and in myself. It makes me feel more proud to be Aboriginal when other cultures want to learn about our culture. 

Nariyah

I’m proud to be Aboriginal because being a First Nation’s person is amazing. And to learn about culture is an amazing thing because it's our culture so you can pass it down. I'm proud of the dances that we created thousands of years ago. 

Des

Reconciliation week is important to me because to me it’s a week that other people from right around Australia get to learn about our history, culture, and achievements that we have all been through. The best thing about this week to me is that it’s a week we Indigenous people got recognised. 

Emma

I am proud to be Aboriginal because there is a lot of Aboriginal instruments such as a didgeridoo, it is very cool to play and it is a very cultural instrument. There are lots of famous Aboriginal people that sing, dance, paint, act and play sport and some of those Aboriginal people inspire me. Another reason I am proud to be Aboriginal is that you can learn different languages and then when you go to different areas of Australia you can talk to them in the language that they speak. I think if you are Aboriginal you should be really proud because we are so strong, we fight and fight for what's right and we get a change that is necessary. 

Jack

I am proud to be a part of the oldest living culture in the world. That is what I love about being Aboriginal. I hope Australia can close the gap and wipe out racism and I mostly want Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to come together as one to build a better future for the world. 

Lily

In the future I hope to see a change in things that happened a few years ago but to also start a new chapter in life and to acknowledge what happened back then. I hope that we can all come together and to make a change. We need there to be more leaders that are brave to make a change in life to stop racism. We need to all become one and to learn what happened in the past but to also respect us because we need to protect the land we live on. 

Munyari

I am proud to be Aboriginal because our elders teach us about culture, language and country and pass our knowledge to the younger ones. My culture is still going and still strong after 60,000 years of going through heaps of horrible things and knowing what happened is the past and knowing us Aboriginal people were fighting for our rights. Soraya

I am proud to be an Aboriginal boy because I have the longest living culture in the world, also Aboriginal people have been on Australia for thousands of years. I live on an island called the Tiwi Islands on the weekends sometimes I go hunting with my family and learn how to look after country. After hunting we go for a swim at the water hole. My cousins  and I would go to get some clay and paint ourselves and scare our little cousins. Then later we cook mud crabs and fishes on the coals and listen to my grandparents telling dreamtime stories by the warm fire under the full moon.  Winston