Being Inside the Old Tree

Ali Gumillya Baker

doi:10.1080/14434318.2025.2513660

Being Inside the Old Tree

Ali Gumillya Baker

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Abstract

When I was a child living on a highway on Kaurna Yarta, there was a large old shelter tree on the Parra Wirra creek bed. A place near my home where we rode our bikes, and I remember observing that a person was keeping their clothes and a pair of shoes inside the tree. I thought that I would like to be able to do this, to have the tree as my shelter, like our old people had done.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	132-145
Number of pages	14
Journal	Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
Volume	25
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2025.2513660
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 2025

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

First Nations peoples
Colonial histories
violent histories
First Nations perspectives
Aboriginal people’s health
Indigenous perspectives
massacres
genocide

NTRO Type of Output

Minor

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10.1080/14434318.2025.2513660Licence: CC BY

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Being Inside the Old Tree

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