Aurukun Shire Council


	Aurukun Shire Council 39 KANG KANG ROAD AURUKUN QLD 4871 ph 07 4060 6800 fax 07 4060 6191 email council@aurukun.qld.gov.au

Traditional Knowledge

The Aurukun Youth Strategy employs a two-way learning model to empower local people by genuinely valuing traditional knowledge. One of the simplest ways we do this is by going out on country to catch fish, spear puuy (mudcrabs), find may at (sugarbag honey), collect bush foods including min ochanang (mudshells) and min ongk (longshells), may po'al (yellow fruit) and may ow (dried yellow fruit). Such activities provide participants with a familiar basis upon which to build literacy and numeracy skills.

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Collecting mudshells with the young women's group.

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Silas and Eric displaying a Giant Trevally caught at Obon.