The 2022 Preserve, Promote and Protect our Aboriginal Sites Grants Program has this year awarded up to $30,000 each to 10 not-for-profit Aboriginal organisations to undertake on-the-ground works at 11 registered heritage sites.
The program is part of the State Government's commitment to supporting Aboriginal people in managing their unique cultural heritage.
Funding will allow this year's recipients to complete a variety of works to protect and better manage sites that hold cultural heritage significance, as well as promote greater cultural understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal heritage to all Western Australians.
Recipients include the Albany Heritage Reference Group Aboriginal Corporation that will use their funding to develop a panoramic painting in the Town Hall Square with contemporary descriptions of the Menang Noongar people, including well respected Elder and guide Mokare who lived in the 1800s and worked with the early settlers of Albany.
In the Mid-West, a grant for the Wattandee Littlewell Aboriginal Corporation will be used to build a large pergola so that all-weather cultural gatherings can be held on-site.
For the Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Foundation and the Nomads Charitable and Education Trust in the Pilbara, the grants will be used to develop interpretive signage to inform tourists about the historical and cultural significance of the sites.
The Hotham River Aboriginal Corporation will use its grant funding to further investigate their history with the use of a ground penetrating radar to confirm the location of local tracker Quency Dilyan, who accompanied explorers and surveyors into the Boddington area during the 1800s.
More information is available at https://www.wa.gov.au/service/aboriginal-affairs/aboriginal-heritage-conservation/apply-grant-preserve-promote-and-protect-aboriginal-sites
