Break Thru NAIDOC Week Celebrations – Parramatta

As part of their celebration of NAIDOC Week 2010, Break Thru Parramatta displayed Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories, which are an integral and inspriational part of the culture that explains the origins of the people.

The Parramatta team chose various stories from Water, Sky, Land and People.

During the Dreaming, ancestral spirits came to earth and created the landforms, the animals and plants.

The stories tell how the ancestral spirits moved through the land creating rivers, lakes and mountains.

"The Dreaming means our identity as people. The cultural teaching and everything, that's part of our lives here, you know?… it's the understanding of what we have around us." - Merv Penrith Elder, Wallaga Lake, 1996