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Keira Jenkins

Connection to Country a journey from canoe to dinghy

Faster transport brings the risk of losing connection to Country from slower and longer journeys. (HANDOUT/SAM WILLIAMS)

A 250km journey across the coast of Arnhem Land once took days in a dugout canoe, but is now a matter of hours in a motorised boat.

Traditional owner and elder Samuel Gulwa remembers journeying in a dugout canoe, surrounded by family and elders, between the communities of Maningrida where he lives, and Warruwi on Goulburn Island.

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