Gran parte de esta información, es extraída de varias paginas. Esta es un buen referente: http://livingknowledge.anu.edu.au/learningsites/seacountry/index.htm
Todo lo que existe en la cultura yolngu está clasificado en dos vertientes, Dhuwa and Yirritja
Dhuwa and Yirritja
Es este artículo, encontramos información más exensa con interesantes archivos de audio:
Yothu and Yindi at Garma 2000
The first thing is that there are two moieties, Dhuwa and Yirritja.
Everyone and everything is either Dhuwa or Yirritja. Yirritja people
sing about Yirritja things, like Yirritja rocks, Yirritja winds, wildlife,
clouds, ancestors, creators, and many things.
A Yirritja person must always marry a Dhuwa person, and Dhuwa must
marry Yirritja. You can’t marry the same moiety. That’s how the world
works. It has been there for thousands of years. We live by that.
If a man or a woman is Dhuwa, their mother will be Yirritja. Also,
Dhuwa land can have another piece of land nearby which is its mother,
Yirritja. For example the Gumatj land at Bawaka, which is Yirritja, is
right next to its mother, the Rirratji\u homeland centre named
Yala\bara, which is Dhuwa.
Everywhere we can find the child and the mother, not only when we
see people, but also when we see the land. This relationship is
commonly referred to as Yothu-yindi. In a yothu-yindi partnership, one
partner is always Dhuwa, the other always Yirritja. The Yindi is always
considered to be the mother of the yothu, even if we are talking about
two men, or two pieces of land. Sometimes Yirritja is the mother for
Dhuwa, sometimes Dhuwa is the mother for Yirritja.
Notes from a talk by Raymattja Marika-Munu\giritj, lecturer,
Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies,
Northern Territory University & Yol\u Advisor to FATSIS
The Garma Festival 2000 is held at Gukua, which is Yirritja land. The bu\gul
which is to be held here celebrates the ancestor who is locally called
Ganbulapula. Ganbulapula is Yirritja, and all the songs and dances which
relate to him are Yirritja. Ganbulapula is the particular form of that ancestral
being when he was at this place. He is related to other Yirritja groups along
the same track, where he had different names and performed different deeds.
He is also closely connected with Dhuwa groups.
When Yirritja Groups perform their ceremonies, they always need their Dhuwa
relations with them to perform important ceremonial functions. The Dhuwa
groups and the Yirritja groups relate together as Yothu Yindi.
https://yidakistory.com/dhawu/es/yolngu-rom/dhuwa-and-yirritja-yidaki/
Aqui un articulo donde se explica la relación parental y como se distribuyen. PDF
http://www.dhimurru.com.au/yolngu-culture.html
SharingStories Foundation en Vimeo, es una pagina con historias contadas en formato de video.
Yolgnu
La palabra Yolngu significa persona, en su lengua. Los Yolngu conforman un grupo de unos 30 clanes diferentes que habitan el nordeste de Arnhem Land. Es de las mejor preservadas debido en parte a ser de las últimas en tener un contacto con los europeos y haber sido desde siempre un pueblo próspero y abundante basando su comercio en el intercambio de barcos procedentes de la actual Indonesia.
Los Yolngu mantenían una fuerte relación comercial con indonesia, recibiendo artilugios metálicos como cuchillos, pipas o tabaco a cambio de cosecha. También comerciaban con otros clanes de Australia central, por ejemplo, los Yolngu no fabricaban boomerangs sino que los comerciaban con clanes de otros territorios.
En 1623 la tierra fue nombrada un explorador Holandés, Matthew Flinders haciendo honor al nombre del navío en que había desembarcado. Declarada Reserva Aborigen en 1931, se mantiene como la más grande de las reservas y la más conocida pues, debido también a su aislamiento territorial ha conservado bastante inalterable toda su cultura incluyendo arte, ceremonias y tradiciones.
