Jandi -Yungun. English -Dugong by Bruce Borey

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For thousand of years in winter my people have hunted the Yungun in a sustainable way. Both for them and for us. Each year after the summer rains, silt washes out into Deception Bay from the Mary River into Butchulla country near K'gari. The silt covers the sea grass beds of K'gari and the Yungun sourse of food is covered with this silt. The Yungun swim south into my Country, Quandamooka . This painting tells this storey. In the centre is the Mary River, and what we call Yungun (dugong) grass which the Yungun feed on as the weather gets cooler. My people will watch the beaches and the sea for this grass and once it is seen wash up on the beach or floating on the surface of the water, we know they are in our Country and feeding. The signs that our Country gives us tell us all we need to know about what is happing with the animals and environment within our Country. The other images are images of other animals and food that comes to us as a gift from our Sea Country such as Binging the turtle, Ugurie a shellfish and the many different types of fish that visit us in these cooler months. After the Yungun have spent the winter in our country they will head north, back to K'gari and Butchulla Country. The silt would have turned the sea beds of K'gari into a lush feeding grounds for them.

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As a young man I hunted the Yungun with my brothers from the Kabool (carpet snake) , Quampi (pearl shell) and Dadobila (porpoise) clans of Quandamooka. It is our Customery Law from the Dream Time that only young male Yungun (dugong) can be taken. This is so that the herd can be sustained. Today we see their numbers declining and we know that one day the Yungun Dreaming will only be a Dreamtime story.

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