Beyond the Meeting of the Waters: A Yorta Yorta Life Story

‘Storyline’ is the word used to describe the way the Indigenous stories relate with each other like veins running across the land. They are passed on by word of mouth and are communicated through other mediums: art, language, music and ceremony.
Yorta Yorta Elder Wayne Atkinson’s storyline begins, like thousands of generations before him, on the banks of a river, but it would take him to the halls of higher learning and a lifetime of activism to further the empowerment of his people.
For Atk...