Bassendean

Connecting with History & Ancestors

Bassendean has as much to preserve in values of cultural lore the intangible to the tangible expressing intangible preservation is one’s way of a unified society  or clan moieties, membership to your DNA make up of your skin or totemic classification.

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Initiation, this makes up your identity and connection to country. 

You are children of the dust and connected to your environment inextricably as one is nurtured by their mother, our Mother Earth.  So Mother Earth recognises your group as her own. Being Ucumble (Jukenbul) and language groups  she the country is a living, breathing loving kin. 

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Stories of Songlines in this manner for preservation in your country are therefore held by knowledge holders and Elders  as “Dreaming Lullabies'’ sung to you as a baby or young infant  in return growing and increasing in knowledge and cultural integrity of Songline preservation.

Bunawangen Mountain is such a place of higher degree with this knowledge of and is the Songline pathways exacting the legend of Nimula and its Noble defenders and the Notorious Challengers.  

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Tangible preservation comes with the physical tangibility of what  is  present before you in the landscape that these “Dreaming Lullabies” now present as your  universal knowledge of surroundings.

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One of the last known untouched habitats of the endangered Bell's Turtle and Red River Gum, Bassendean is located on the outskirts of Tingha a small town on the Northern Tablelands in New South Wales. Before non indigenous settlement the area now known as Nimula was mainly lived upon by people of the Kamilaroi Nation.  It has only been in recent years that this land has been returned to First Nation custodians for stewardship.

To truly appreciate this area you need to step foot on it for yourself. These lands contain numerous signs of the Nucoorilma people ancestors. Such cultural markers include Scar Trees, Burial Cairns & Artifacts.