To date, the Yawuru community has found 36 ancestors, scattered across the world, who were removed from Yawuru country during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Many have been held and displayed in European museums, treated as curiosities in collections or as objects for scientific studies, often to validate racist theories of the evolution of mankind.
The Wanggajarli Burugun story has been created from mabu liyan. The experience has been curated as a journey, which matches the journey of discovery and understanding, as we uncovered the truth about what happened to our ancestors and begin to reconcile this traumatic history.
Members of the community curatorium will discuss all the aspects of the Wanggajarli Burugun project that includes an exhibition, research, the development of a memorial and resting place, and their work in trying to bring their ancestors back to their home country
