Dont forget Coloured Stone who formed in 1977.

And Warumpi Band in 1980

Mandawuy was Gurrumuls younger brother.

@@Minceir Mandawuy was born in 1953, and Gurrumul in 1971. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandawuy_Yunupingu.

Gurrumul played keyboards and some percussion. Andrew Belletty played drums.

Totally agree ❤ There are so many of us “white” Aussies who respect and honour our indigenous peoples, their struggles in life and appalling treatment by the government over the years. This song was a major breakthrough - remember how big a shock this caused in the Aussie music industry when it became so popular?

🇦🇺You are my White Sister. We love our white brothers & sisters.🇦🇺

Thank you. 🇦🇺

Yo ❤🇦🇺

I'm aboriginal and I'm from Cape York East coast. The non-indegious in My community speak our native language because My elders gave permission to teach White people especially teacher's and the nurse's to better understand and communicate with each other to bring closure to our history of our great nation to Unite as 1 🙏❤️ (Sorry for saying White people, I don't like saying White people because My Dad said to show others respect) Other Whites visiting our area freak out when They see those White people talk in our language to us 🤣🤣🤣👏👍

Perfect summation Alexandria. Thank you!!

Thanks for your input that was cool and deadly! 🤟

Too deadly!

Wow that's amazing

@@ThatSingerReactions the song goes alot deeper then that, and its mostly about politics... back in the 80's Australia was run by the government of Bob Hawk... One of the greatest politicians to run this country... Basically he had a dream to unite white Australians and our Aboriginal brothers and sisters to see past color, and stand as one... one of the greatest dreams stil today-as i see it- The hawk government draw up a treaty, that would help aboriginals transition into white society, though what i saying is a very small aprt of the treaty, but i guessing you get the idea, and plus dont want to say alot about it as im not fully aware of all the aspects of it, as it run deep and wide... but in short, alot of aboriginals went for it, others did not,and selected white ppls didnt go for it either, severals things got ugly, and shadow government put pressure on the Hawk government to retract the treaty instead of working with them... basically pure politics... which, personally is sad , coz i honesty believe that most ppls love the idea as everyone is equal-we all stand is one, coz we are all in this together and not be judge on color, but there are a few ppls on each side that wont let go on there beliefs...

I wish u were right but sadly there r too many racists who would disagree with u

@@jadecawdellsmith4009 I concur, I wish spiritcats comments were true, sadly so many ignorant racist AH's in Australia

Me too 🙏

Well said...The struggle is still real!

we won the war, lucky it wasnt the Norwegians that came hear or they would of killed every last one of them

There needs to be compromise tho, us white fellas cant be blamed forever

It might be coming sooner then you think. Have you noticed in every song that comes from the spirit of our Aboriginal folks they KNOW us? But we don't know them? This country changes hearts. This is no different.

Now I noticed your last name, nothing more to be said. Archie Roach went through so much.

Don’t forget Baker Boy. Bloody awesome…Meditjin or Marryuna

Kaya! I am lucky to live on Whadjuk Boodjar as well. Great song choices 👌 I'm loving absolutely everything that Baarka has been putting out too.

Another Perthite here! Just LOVED his reaction also, such an iconic song.

If your are related to Nathan, he should have stayed in Adelaide and play in the SANFL.He would have been supported and looked after by any of the clubs....oh i am a Ngarrindjeri fella

💯 ❤️💯❤️💯❤️💯

Oldest civilisation still alive, but yes I love my aboriginal brothers and sisters

I saw an article last week where artifacts were found that dates at least 50,000 years, and I suspect older.

@@zoefarris2409 many years back. I was told minimum 60,000

@@CateB66 the number goes up 10,000 years

And we still dont have a treaty. WORSE still the Australian Gov tried to CON the Aboriginal with its "Reconciliation" campaign which they then ten years later morphed into a "Recognition" campaign. They used the same red R and branding hoping that people would get confused. Reconciliation was what aboriginal people wanted. Recognition in the Australian Constitution was not the same thing - in fact it was just a way to legally steal Aboriginal sovereignty. Which to date has never been seded. Australia IS an illegal occupation.

@@NarcFreeFormula Blah, Blah , Blah!!

It is the same problem again and again. I have Aboriginal blood - was hard to trace due to poor records in the 1800's, especially when a "Gin" was involved [I apologise but that is the term records used]. I have found my heritage is from the Nambucca area in the Northern Rivers. It was my Great Grandmother born in the mid 1800's who married a timber cutter. They worked in a then remote area and many men took Aboriginal partners. In the 1960's my family talked of my heritage and that was more or less publicly taboo, if you looked and could pass for white you didn't mention "it". Many Aboriginals even said they had Indian heritage, because Aboriginals had basically no rights until the late '60's early '70's. We "knew" but never registered our heritage anywhere. Now that is a sorry state of affairs. I have unknowingly walked into a Bora Ring on a property we had and you can feel it before you know what you have done..............our connections to country and heritage run deep whether acknowledged or not. The sad thing is I am in my 60's and have never properly known my heritage. That is why a Treaty is needed so all people can connect with who they are, without any fear, and rejoice in who they truly are.

I live near there now, on Gumbaynggirr land. Always was always will be. Respect

heard 'Balooraman' and knew I needed the album (Nutches) - proper mad deadly

Barkaa... is another great indigenous artist. Proud Blak Woman! I appreciate this comment!

@@LeeLee-1710 Barkaa is great! So many brilliant Indigenous artists that more people should know about! Continue being proud, my friend. Our first Australians have been silenced too long & you have so much wonderful art to be proud of.

@@popviz3316 The whole album is brilliant! I love them so much!

@@scattysafari7742 Absolutely agree. Australia has an abundance of talent. We all need to share.

Have you ever thought about doing short videos about different things about your culture and putting them on KZfaq? I know that a lot of law is private but it could be a good way to educate people on the things that you do want to teach them about. I know that I would watch it 😊

@@edwina.johnston yeah to be honest I’ve had that thought a few times and I’ve brain stormed a couple ideas but my knowledge on making edited videos are pretty garbage. Also now days I work 6 days a week while trying to raise my daughter so those mini dreams of filming this culture is diminishing There’s definitely huge amounts of stuff that could be shared publicly that could be possible if someone had the time to do it. But yeah you’ve sort of sparked my interest again, which I’ll try pitch these ideas to people who could possibly help. Thanks mate

@@bigjo2163 Sounds like a lot 😊 Good luck with it. TikTok seems to be what the kids watch and if you get a big enough following, you might be able to do it fulltime like Nick 😊

Your first nation/aboriginal race is far older than thousands of years. It is millions of years old. I am a student of The Ageless Wisdom Teachings and Theosophy. Both these are spiritual works that state that the aboriginal peoples of Australia are the remnants of the first peoples on earth who lived on the ancient land named Lemuria. The land of Lemuria spread across where some of the Pacific Ocean is now, but eventually it sunk. Part of Australia, plus some small islands, are what is left above sea level. Earth scientists know that Australia this is the oldest land in the world.

@@barnowl5774 yeah I’ve heard something like that before. Never really dove into it but I just gave it a search on google and Lemuria sunk 84 million years ago. If aboriginals did cross that land to get here on foot then that’s mind blowing. That’s a huge amount of time ago to even think of. Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll definitely be looking more into this information 👍🏼 champion

Maynmak. Nha mirr nhe mokul bapa. Malati la wawa.

great song.

Djapana is my favourite. I grew up with noongar people in Ballardong country. Djapana got a lot of air play in our neighbourhood (along with AC/DC and kevin bloody wilson), used to piss off the local cops and old folks.

@@mixmmick me too! From Kaniyang country - Kojonup!

@@flatandsplat Nice, I was in Wyalkatchem (right in the heart of the wheatbelt). I was originally from perth but lived with my grandfather from the age of 13 to 18 (1987 to 1993), moved back to perth to go to uni. Had some wild times there, cops were pricks to us (they typically were indigenous people and anyone associated), not a lot has change unfortunately. My boys up there though still consider me part of the mob.

@@mixmmick yes I know Wylkatchem!

sharene drennan i need to correct you about the colours of our flag sis black for our mob (skin colour) yellow is the sun and the red is all the blood that has been lost ok

@@selmaroberson4447 thanks for the correction... I knew I would get it wrong !! What else do you expect from a 68 yr old migloo with failing memory,!,, love ya

@@sharenedrennan1602 it,s ok darl i,m a 50 year old murrie woman(queensland) and i thought i,d put it out there much love sis xo

@@selmaroberson4447 feel free to correct me anytime, still wearing L plates 😁 ,,,,,got to learn all we can

I was there ! They opened for Tina turner

Yes, it was invaded by Western Europeans and were barely resisted by the stone age natives who hadn't invented farming, the bow and arrow or anything basically. Although there are more of them now than when white men arrived they mainly live off of white man's welfare and are basically an idol, lazy race but have enough energy to whine all the time. If it had been the Spanish who had invaded there would be none of them existing now. Whine, whine, whine, whine, whine !

I grew up in the Northern Territory . The time this song came out it was nearly on the radio everyday.

❤💛🖤 That is BEAUTIFUL!! Im so glad for you this song did that for you after such an awful experience- music is so powerful like that hey. I have an Oz Rock playlist on my channel- maybe there are more memories there to be unlocked?? Much love and healing to you

100%!!

Me too 👍😊

Now I'm crying 😍🥲😍🥲😭😭😭😍

I seen them in Darwin once as lead in group for Midnight Oil

true that sis still waiting,waiting

Worse when you consider it was 1988, the year of the bicentenery of European occupation.

We need another Bob Hawke.....not the latte sipping creeps from the big end of town we have had since......bob might have made a few blues but his heart was coming from the right place

@@bushjustice6649 Australian politics is bloody woeful at the moment. A lack of integrity and character mark today's politicians.

Look at this !!! African American doing some research on Indigenous Australian history .... White Australia take notes !!

How right you are Neil. Always was - always will be - Aboriginal Land.

@@opotikigirlabroad2558 once was aboriginal land. It's now Australia. To use your term, always will be Australia, as the people living there today, like you, ain't going anywhere, like you it's our home, so will always be everyone's land..... not just aboriginals.

@@geoffreyharvey579 if you steal something. does it make it yours? I - and many others - think not. I live here. I own property here. But I will forever be mindful of those who were the original people of this place and the terrible injustices that continue to be meted out to them. I take seriously the responsibility to support Traditional Owners in every way possible. Recognition is the least we can all do.

currently there are two major claims over the sovereignty of Australia, one being the Queen of England and based on less than 250 years timeline, the other being the tribal council of Aboriginal groups representing the continuity of their culture and occupation (legal sovereign control) of the lands, in which they've lived for tens of thousands of years. "Australia" is only an act of British parliament, and only 120 years old. It can be undone as easily as it was done up, and the future control of the continent is indeterminate , as there are some national actors which recognise Aboriginal sovereignty and see the Commonwealth occupation as illegal. Either way, 26 million people do live here yes. Constitutionally , we are Queen Elizabeth II's subjects. Her representative in Australia, the Governor-General, is the only person with the individual direct power to sack Australia's Prime Minister, and this has happened more than once in the short history since Commonwealth Federation in 1901.

@@aperinich You make it sound like the Queen and/or British parliament has the the powers to dissolve Australia. They don't. In ceremony the Governor-General is representative of the Queen, but the Queen does not have the power to order the governor-general to dissolve parliament, nor does she have the powers to undo what the Governor-General has done. The Governor-General's role is a safeguard to ensure the Australian government operates within the powers of the Australian Constitution.

Solid Rock! Such an amazing song.

Yessss

@@AussieMaskedOwl solid rock by Robbie Millar is so beautiful on the Deadly Hearts cd

Thank 56music. Yes. Coloured Stone formed in 1977.

Yes please! Solid Rock is great

Warumpi band & Colored stone band were around & had airplay for years before Treaty came out, so it would be fair to turn that around and say that those bands (and others) blazed the trail for Yothu Yindi, not wanting too take anything away from them but let's give those earlier bands their due.

Warumpi Band was early 80's, Yothu Yindi was at least 10 years later

@@raresaturn Yothu Yindi we’re formed 1985. The Warumpi band were formed about 1980 but didn’t take off outside of the NT until the 85-86 when Midnight Oil got behind them. Certainly the Warumpi band were very important & also one of the first bands to release a song in “ language”.There was a great doco on their lead singer George on SBS last year.

NoFixedAddress were kicking goals in the 1970s.

@@bline5891 Fair point. Yothu Yindi had chart success & toured overseas which led people to look for who else was out there in terms of indigenous bands. Like a lot of things you work backwards checking out the history of the genre.

you can't beat the original...

I thought his brother or cousin was the headmaster of local school, because my sister taught there for awhile, but I could be remembering wrong.

His wife was also a teacher, she only retired recently

Love Djapana. Brilliant song. "I'm sunset dreaming"

What your wife mob tribe ?

@@libbydargin3411 can't spell it. . . Owatawaka?

Murri, is she from north Australia. Queensland?

@@ceejaymmpee No. Her mothers tribe was SA or NSW, I don't know. When we were in NT, it was the only time that I've experienced race hatred. The locals would stare at us with almost criminal intent. And I told her, "I'm sorry." being a white guy with a black girl. she said, "No, it's me, I'm a white girl as far as they are concerned." The "racial" nonsense is something relatively foreign to me. I just happened to be in love with a beautiful woman, but walking through Alice we got eyes like daggers everywhere, and according to my wife, she says it's because they think she is trying to be a white girl.

@@youtubeme7195 it lovely your love for your wife. I only asked as north they say Murri and south they usually say Koori

You are so right

Well said

Yeah adding a note at the start would be good. Dude doesn't know I guess but good idea to try educate

I agree. More people need to know the essential spiritual protocols of the first people everywhere...Spirituality, customs, traditions and especially grief traditions need to be widely appreciated.

Yes 👍

They need to help us help them. For example, they receive royalties for mining, but the Aboriginal council responsible steals that money or the money that is disbursed, gets spent on alcohol and gambling. These royalties are on top of government services available to every Australian. Yes, there area's we can do better, but if they've done some basic investments, with the money received, they wouldn't need whatever service we failed to provide.

@@Freyja71 Which then begs the question, who owns the land? Our family was displaced from our ancestors land and I'm sure most people of the world claim the same. There were probably around 1 million aborigines in 1788. Should so few get to claim such a vast continent?

It was the lead singer Mandawuy who was the principal at Yirkala. Sadly he & other members have passed away but yothu yindi r still performing.

@@jadecawdellsmith4009 Thanks for that

We just unveild a plaque for Archie on the shores of Lake bonney barmera

I'd add Karma County's "Secret Country", featuring Yorta Yorta man, Jimmy Little

Love those guys.

R.I.P great man🕯

Yes. I met Archie and the late Ms Hunter at a friend's place in Adelaide many years ago. Archie did an impromptu concert at Genocide Corner (2000) and played my guitar! (I missed him entirely as I was at home making a HUGE pot of stew in order to feed everyone. :) )🤩🤩

They call it a Yidaki up there.

@@eviehanlon1445 Yes, but nobody, especially foreigners, have heard of that. Didgeridoo is far more widespread and recognisable a term.

I saw them live in '93. I walked through the tunnel at the MCG ( Essendon v Carlton) at half time with them. I could only get an entertainment pass from a scalper to see the game...half a game. True story.

@@gigantor62 That must of been amazing!!

Me too! They came to our school in Darwin, Taminmin High School. They were amazing, such a privilege ❤

Likewise,it was so very exciting to be allowed to meet them!

They used to perform in Darwin a lot around clubs and pubs

They were smart and innovative playing schools and instilling love of culture to the kids hey

G.R. from Warumpi was like a black mick jagger-so much stage presence & swagger. & also the first to sing in language