Mid-North Coast: Nambucca River creation story [video]

My river is beautiful Nambucca river beautiful yes
My... Nambucca River is very beautiful.
Nganyundi Baga baga bindarray nyirrnaawunba
Nambucca River. Baga baga bindarray
Gumbaynggirr on the side of the river.
Out there where that mountain is...
See that? Looks like a ...
that's called Sugarloaf Mountain.
- Out there are people called Dhungutti.
Dhungutti. And across the river here
are people called Ngambaa.
Yeah, and they are a sub-group
of the Dhungutti people.
And down there is Ngagu. Ngagu.
And they're all a part of the larger
language group for Dhungutti.
The Nambucca River has got a bend
in the Nambucca River
and it was created in the Dreamtime
by a giant Ngambaa man who lived
on the other side of the river there.
baga-baga, in my language, is knee.
We knew them really well in the south
but the people from the north come down
and got scared
and speared one of the Ngambaa people
and the Ngambaa man fell
and his knee made the bend in the river
and all his other body, parts of his
body, made the other parts of the earth.

But that part there, he made the bend
in the river with his knee,
the giant Ngambaa man.
And we call it baga-baga.
Baga-baga is the name of our clan
in Nambucca Heads
and it was made by
the giant Ngambaa man.
Down here, down the mouth of the river,
it was called Nyambaga.
Nyambaa baga.
But they changed it to Nambucca.
That's where Nambucca comes from,
is Nyambaga.
And now we change it back to Nyambaga.
It was Nyambaga,
then it was Nambucca.
Now we're going to change it back
to Nyambaga again.
darruywunba! Thank you!