NAIDOC 2021
NAIDOC - HEAL COUNTRY
4th - 11th of July 2021
Heal Country, heal our nation.
As First Nations people, Yilay encourages all Australians to embrace First Nation’s cultural knowledge and understanding of Country as part of Australia's national heritage. Protecting Indigenous lands, waters and sacred sites from exploitation, desecration and destruction. Whilst hearing pleas to provide greater management, involvement, and empowerment by Indigenous peoples over country.
Yilay has collaborated with five deadly Indigenous artists, who have utilised this year’s theme to produce stunning, unique and fresh artworks/logos.
Yilay invites you all to explore our wonderful 2021 NAIDOC range and join in the celebration of the oldest living culture in the world, whilst we come together to
establish fundamental change in the relationship Australia has with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Yilay’s Pre-Order is now open, for those requiring items prior to NAIDOC Week, this is your opportunity.
$1 from all 2021 Yilay NAIDOC items purchased, will be donated to First Butchulla Elders Group - K’Gari Education and Cultural Centre revegetation project, as endorsed by Chairperson Uncle Norman Barney.
Heal Country
“Every person has a responsibility to live sustainably to protect the environment which is our home country.
Like every dot has their place in a painting, everybody can have a role to bring restoration and heal our country.
Each individual dot is creating the bigger picture, like we as individuals are contributing to the state of our environment”.
Healing Mother Earth
“This design represents mob healing Mother Earth by coming together to sing, dance and pay respect to her.
On this particular design it shows mobs around Australia gathering and healing Mother Earth on their own countries. You’ll see the different countries also being connected to the big circle in the middle which represent Mother Earth as a whole”.
My Homeland
By Taya Biggs - Contemporary Aboriginal Artist
“This painting depicts my home-Barkindji country. The line and circle symbols running through the middle represent the river, the people around the river represent my elders, grandparents, aunties, uncles and cousins coming together to fight for the protection of our land.
Fighting for our Barka (Darling River), fighting to protect our cultural and significant sacred sites from destruction.
The patterning around my elders represent the veins that run through us that connect us to the land. The outer corners represent the million sacred sites that we must fight to protect.
We need out country to heal in order for it to survive. Now is the time to look after our land like our ancestors did for the past 65,000 years. If we don’t look after it, it won’t look after us.
Listen to Mother Earth, Heal Country now”.
Wanya Nyin Yangu, Wanai Djinang Djaa (Wherever you go, leave only footprints).
By Jesse Green
"We have a responsibility, as people (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) of this land, to leave it the same or if not better than we lived on it. Finding the best sustainable ways to live our lives, that limit our carbon footprint impact on the environment. Only we can make the change."
“The two large meeting places represents Butchulla mob on K'Gari (Fraser Island), living as one, harmoniously. Nurturing and supporting the ecosystem and animal life to function the way it has for thousands of years”.
In All Our Hands
By Joel Barney
Created by deadly artist and strong Butchulla, Woppaburra and Gunditjmara man Joel Barney Art.
Joel says "This country is in the hands of the people and needs to be taken care of by all the people dwelling here".
