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?Fire and the Story?, developed by Cape York Elders regarding traditional fire management and the problems with its absence in the environment and urban areas today in Australia. The film is a product of the grass roots Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways project and is a bid to educate the broader public nationally and inter-nationally, the benefits of reapplying traditional burning techniques.
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The film is not just a stand-alone feature. The range of chapters
and stories that make up the film are real, with Elders on country
assessing the issue first hand. The areas involved are also
practically re-engaging fire back into country that has created
employment for young indigenous people to recover and re-apply the
role. The message in general is to convince Government agencies that
Traditional Knowledge should play a leading role to the management of
the Australian Environment and to assist indigenous lead studies of
fire for global warming solutions.
One of the chapters has been shot with Native American people in
California as well, to show and support the similarities of TK systems
of indigenous people from other countries, and how they are based on
the same principals of making country healthy and rich. The film also
demonstrates Elders travelling to areas of Australia to teach other
groups how to read the country and restructure the traditional regime ?
Bridging Principals. Other clans and areas involved are Kuranda,
Laura, Aurukun, Lakefield, Cape Tribulation, Gulf, Research outcomes
and Pastoral properties.
The film is dedicated to Kuku-Thaypan Elder George Musgrave Snr. and
his brother Dr Tommy George for the important work they started with
the Kuku-Thaypan Fire Research Project.
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