Since the time of dreaming, Koongo, place of water, Yallarm, place of shells, and its environs have been the home of our First Nations peoples — the Bailai, Gurang, Gooreng Gooreng and Taribelang Bunda nations — who are the Traditional Owners and custodians of the land and water on which we rely.
Sadly, for the Gladstone Region’s Indigenous people, knowledge of most of their specific Dreaming stories, a sacred ‘once upon a time’ story in which ancestral totemic Spiritual Beings formed The Creation – the earth and all beings on the earth, has all but vanished.
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