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 ABORIGINAL WOMEN PROMOTING, PROTECTING & ADVANCING TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY

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The Nyoongar Tent Embassy honours Matagarup’s significance as a sacred women’s birthing site, which has also been recognised by the Swan and Canning Rivers Iconic Trails Project. 

The Nyoongar Tent Embassy also celebrates the significance of the sheok trees that grow in abundance on Matagarup. It was a sheok tree that was cut down on 12th August 1829 to mark the foundation of the Swan River Colony in defiance of our Tribal Sovereignty, and it was a woman who was invited to strike the first blow.

Women members of the Nyoongar Tent Embassy reclaim the Matagarup sheok tree as a symbol of our inherent, universal and indivisible right, as Tribal Sovereign People, to self-determination for all present and future generations.


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