Tuesday Curatorial: NAIDOC Week - The outlawing of Cultural Burning on Menang Boodja
Dates
Tuesday 1 July | 10.30am - 11.30am
Free | Gold coin donations are welcome
Location
Co-op Building
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Learn about the impact of historical regulations on Menang cultural burning practices
Archaeologist and Fire Specialist Dr Sean Winter takes a closer look at the Western Australian Regulations that were passed as early as 1847 to limit Noongar cultural burning practices. These regulations were intended to curb the spread of uncontrolled wildfires, but they ultimately had the opposite effect.
European legislators did not understand that controlled burns managed the vegetation and minimised damaging bushfires—fires that have occurred annually across Australia since European settlement in 1788.
Presented by Dr. Sean Winter.
Dr Sean Winter is the Cultural and Statutory Fire Co-ordinator at Wagyl Kaip – Southern Noongar Aboriginal Corporation.