Mount Grenfell Historic Site

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67 kms off Barrier Hwy, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia

Mount Grenfell Historic Site is an Aboriginal rock art site, about 50 kilometres west of Cobar, in the arid lands in central west New South Wales, Australia. It is a spiritually important place for its Aboriginal owners, the Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan people. Hundreds of ancient rock drawings of humans, animals and the natural environment can be found at this historically invaluable site. On 17 July 2004, the site was handed back by the Australian government to the Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan people, but is leased back to the NSW government.
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Mount Grenfell handback 10th anniversary celebrations 2014

Interview: Colin Clark, Chair Mt Grenfell Historic Site Board of Management.

Saturday 12 July 2014 marked the celebration of 10 years since Mount Grenfell Historic Site, near Cobar in Western NSW, was handed back to the Ngiyanpaa people.

Two hundred people gathered at Mt Grenfell Historic Site, near Cobar in western NSW on Saturday 12 July, to celebrate ten years since Mt Grenfell Historic Site was handed back to the Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan people.

In July 2004 Mt Grenfell was only the second reserve in NSW to be handed back to traditional owners and leased back to the NSW Environment Minister to be managed by a board of management under the National Parks and Wildlife Act.

The crowd at the celebrations had travelled from all over NSW as well as interstate

The Mt Grenfell Historic Site is home to some 1,300 rock art paintings, but the importance of the area to the Ngiyampaa people goes much deeper, stretching back thousands of years through dreaming lines and stories handed down through the generations.

The board has managed to achieve some significant gains for both conservation and cultural heritage in the past decade, including leading the way for the acquisition of an adjoining 14,100 hectares to be known as Mount Grenfell National Park and, most recently, bringing the plan of management for both reserves almost to completion.

An exciting new initiative of the board is the commencement of a junior board, members of which took guests on guided walks of the rock art sites during the celebrations. As Colin says, the junior board has been created to keep the spirit alive in our young people.

Celebrations on the day included a plaque unveiling, recognising the occasion, a cake and demonstration workshops of traditional craft including emu egg carving and weaving. Entertainment included talented Indigenous musicians.

harmony by Jade Flynn recorded live by fret industries video shot by Jade Flynn

this is a story about places of significance in my life, harmony by Jade Flynn(reverbnation.com/jadeflynn) is an idea about a way of thinking expressed in song and with video recorded in NSW Australia in locations between Bathurst and Cobar, including shots from the Mt Grenfell Historic Site near Cobar, part of traditional lands of the Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan (Wongai-bon(y) - Jades people. ... said to be the only permanent waterhole in the country between the Darling and Bogan Rivers. The yapapuwan karul at Mt Grenfell (the Mt Grenfell 'rocks with art') are situated in the riverless dryland region where Ngiyampaa people had their ngurram- paa, literally their 'camp-worlds'. This is the region where places have names in ngiyam-paa, literally their own 'word-world', their own 'language'. The Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan people are associated with country roughly bounded in the north by the Darling-Barwon and Bogan Rivers, and in the south by the Lachlan.

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