Project briefing May 2012: Cultural enterprise

Cultural Enterprise ProjectDr Peter Twigg, Curtin University

Research question: how can a remote community develop economicand business opportunities based within Aboriginal culture and thetraditional knowledge of Spinifex country?The research project is based at Tjuntjuntjara Community inpartnership with Pila Nguru Aboriginal Corporation. Central to theresearch is an endeavour to ‘map’ Spinifex Country and bring forwardthe deep cultural and biological knowledge of traditional owners. 2

Research question: how can a remote community develop economicand business opportunities based within Aboriginal culture and thetraditional knowledge of Spinifex country?The research project is based at Tjuntjuntjara Community inpartnership with Pila Nguru Aboriginal Corporation. Central to theresearch is an endeavour to ‘map’ Spinifex Country and bring forwardthe deep cultural and biological knowledge of traditional owners. 3

Research MethodsHard Mapping: Bush expeditions to ‘chart the unchartered territories’Capture Sources: Collating information and data from previous land and heritage projects. Spinifex Arts Project. Northern Spinifex Heritage Project. Ethnographies.Historical Sources: Battye Library, Museum of SA Cundeelee Mission and Oldea

Research Methods…An archival/data systemwith appropriatemanagement protocols willbe developed to store,organize and articulate thebody of cultural knowledgeinto an active mappingsystem that coversSpinifex Country 5

Research Outcomes Economic Development Model• Potential enterprises based within a broad land management and culture framework will be researched with a view to developing models and approaches that allow Aboriginal people to realize the full economic value of cultural knowledge manifest within a land base.•• Future culture and heritage work• Land Management umbrella • Rangers • Survey work • Access development and control • Targeted Tourism• Mineral Sands Mine Zone work • Environmental monitoring • Cultural awareness program • Zone control 6

Research Outcomes….. Connections across borders• This research project aims to increase the economic participation of remote Aboriginal people by careful and appropriate utilization of a substantial but often unrecognized cultural knowledge base. 7

AchievementsRegistering (visiting) of almost 50 newSpinifex sites. The visits have involvedlarge bush trips to find sites and eachplace has been logged with GPS (formapping purposes) and recordingsmade at the site. Photos on GPScamera also collected for each site.Database development underway. Haveassessed 3 options and are looking at 2more (one next week in Darwin).A significant amount of information from previous projects has beenidentified and/or collected that will be ultimately incorporated into the database. Visits have been made to Battey Library and Ara Irriditja identifyingmaterial in the collections.Pilot tourism trip organised for later in the year and also working onvarious land management initiatives based around creating a rangerprogram for Spinifex Country. 8

• Project Partners • Curtin University • Pila Nguru Aboriginal Corporation• Contact details • Dr Peter Twigg, Curtin University • Ilkurlka Community • PO Box 1014 • via Kalgoorlie WA 6430 • (08) 9037-1147 • 0418 942 502 • twigg@spinifex.org.au 9

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