PHOTO: Aunty Maureen Sulter, Gamilaraay Elder, Coonabarabran giving the Welcome to Country before the performance. Credit: Orana Arts
Indigenous and intercultural dance theatre Marrugeku performed ‘Nyuju’ at Coonabarabran High School for National Sorry Day on 26 May.
Nyuju Stumpy Brown was a Wangkatjungka painter and law-woman in Western Australia.
As an artist, Ms Brown recreated the desert sites from her childhood. Her parents died when she was young.
Afterwards, Ms Brown was raised by her uncle who was a drover…