We call our group Yandaarra, a group going together, shifting camp together. This is also the name for our research and our work together. It is what we are doing – moving – and how we are doing it – together. It is our research journey and our research process. We’re walking together, remembering, coming into a consciousness that is the Dreaming. Yandaarra is directed and led by Aunty Shaa Smith under the guidance of the old Fellas and Gumbaynggirr Country and with Neeyan Smith, her daughter, in the place of continuing to pass down knowledge from generation to generation. Yandaarra includes Sarah Wright and Paul Hodge from the University of Newcastle, and the Jaliigirr Biodiversity Alliance as partners.
It is with our deepest love and respect that we acknowledge and give thanks to our Gumbaynggirr Ancestors for giving us the place to support and walk with them to continue the ceremony in communion with our mother earth.