• Title
  Item 1: Graham and Roger Clarke interview by Louise Whelan
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  7 August 2019
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9661578
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (1 hr, 17 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo
  
• Scope and Content
  Oral history interview gives firsthand accounts by Graham and Roger Clarke of their lives as Aboriginal people growing up in regional New South Wales. They discuss their ancestry and country, childhood memories, the effects of weather and drought, and the importance of work and culture to their identity. In the first part of the interview Graham, born in 1963, talks about his ancestral lands which cover four nations bordering Wentworth, NSW border and Mildura. Roger Clarke who was born in Hillston talks about his ancestry which goes back to the Darling River people. Both brothers recall being taken away as young children and put in a boy’s home - they identify as being from the Stolen Generation.
  
  Roger discusses the events surrounding his “coming home” about 18 years ago where he became employed in cultural tourism with Harry Nanya Tours operating in Lake Mungo National Park. Roger gives some detail about difficulties in the operation of Harry Nanya Tours and competition with National Parks and Wildlife NSW. During this he talks of learning his traditional ways from the Aunties, he talks of linking up the traditional family tree of the region.
  
  Graham recounts his early memories of his family structure and growing up around cousins in outback Wilcannia by the River. He describes life and freedom along the abundant River, swimming, fishing and making canoes out of bits of old iron. Graham reflects on extraordinary changes in the landscape over time, land clearing, wetlands and loss of vegetation species and animals. Graham discusses stories from his ancestors about climate change, including seasonal changes, drought, impact of land clearing, connection to land, altered weather patterns, adaptation with climate change, environmental water flows, wetlands, the food chain and the importance of the lifeline of the River systems to community.
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Dareton, New South Wales, on 7 August 2019
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Whelan, Louise, 1967-
  Clarke, Graham
  Clarke, Roger
  
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians--Interviews.
  Clarke, Graham--Interviews
  Clarke, Roger--Interviews
  
• Place
  Mungo National Park (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20474918

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