On Tuesday 21 October, the Kaurna community came together (along with friends and allies), for the fourth and final reburial ceremony of their Ancestors at Wangayarta.
The southern mound, one of four reburial mounds at Wangayarta, was created for the reburial of Kaurna Ancestors disturbed from southern areas of Kaurna Country over the last century.
Wangayarta is a memorial/reburial park designed by the Kaurna community in 2019-2020 as a pilot repatriation project here in South Australia. Led by the Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation, the park was created to re-inter disturbed Ancestors held for decades at the South Australian Museum and the Adelaide University.
Emotional ceremonies have already been held at Wangayarta for Kaurna Ancestors from the northern, western and eastern parts of Kaurna Country since December 2021.
In this episode you’ll hear from:
- Allan Sumner, Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri Traditional Owner and MC of the ceremony
- Major Moogy Sumner, Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri Elder
- Anna Russo, Aboriginal Heritage and Repatriation Manager at the South Australian Museum
- Allan Sumner speaking at the event, used with permission.
