Module 9; Section One. The D\'harawal Peoples used that which The Land gave them

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Module 9; Section One. The D'harawal Peoples used that which The Land gave them, and they could not understand when the first white men settled in Sydney Harbour, removed all the food and medicine plants growing there, plants which had fed and treated The People for millennia. The white men then planted mouldy wheat which did not grow Nowadays we have all these introduced foods, foods that the invaders brought in and abandoned, the privet, brought in because they wanted to see the green of England, not the drab green of the Australian bush, Dandelion, because it was a food and medicine plant, African Olive, only their God knows why this cursc was introduced - or other plants, such as the Opuntia, the Prickly Pear, or worse still, the Kikuyu Grass. The list goes on. For every plant that was introduced into This Land, there is an equivalent which is native, and oftentimes better than the introduced spccics. For instance, the privet, only introduced bccausc of its ability to form hedges of English green. A cosmetic plant. Hedges? A plant barricr used to block out the view. The Dandelion. Why bring that here, we have the equivalent, the Yam Daisy, almost identical to the Dandelion, the flowers are often mistaken for the Dandelion, except that the Yam Daisy does not produce the milky sap that the English jailers used to torture their prisoners. The flowers of the Yam Daisy were dried and soaked in hot water. When cooled they were taken to expel intestinal worms. The leaves were blanched, rubbed vigorously between the palms of the hands, then caten. The root was roasted and caten. The difference between the two plants is minimal, except, whereas the Dandelion has a single flower atop a stout stem containing milky sap, atop each branch. The leaves of the Dandelion are acutely toothed, but are soft and bright green, the leaves of the Yam Daisy are tougher, rougher, and a deeper green. Both the Dandelion and the Yam Daisy grow in our lawns, and are mowed or weeded out. Yet, the Yam Daisy is good food. It also grows prolifically in our municipal parks, school yards, strect verges and along railway lines. the Yam Daisy has a slender, divided stem with a single flower

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One of the story from the legendary D'harawal Dreaming Stories of Kooris,the indigenous People of Australia.These stories reflects the ways to live with harmony with nature , respecting and nuturing it since time in memorable.The story"How the Flannel Flower came to be"conveys the same message,the message to protect and nuture the nature,a mother to all life forms.It also reflects the Koori culture's value where each whether elders or young are given equal opportunities when it comes for seeking wisdom.This story also inspires to strive to guard the nature in it's utmost way as young Tiana did because if anything goes wrong in the nature by human folly,the price for it is paid by both the guilty (humans)and the innocents (the birds, insects and animals).

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