Maiyingu Marragu

Emmense Yourself in the Rich Culture of the Wiradjuri People

Explore Wiradjuri Heritage

Let Mingaan Wiradjuri Aboriginal Corporation take you on cultural tours through our local Wiradjuri lands. Let us show you rock art; ancient landscapes, tell you stories of the Dreaming where all things were created. We encourage all people to take our cultural tours; tourists and visitors, local people and local groups, schools, and environmental interest groups. Let Mingaan show you across our local Wiradjuri lands.

Services We Provide

We provide a range of services and support to Aboriginal people and to the wider community of Lithgow and surrounding areas with a focus on caring for country and a vision to run an Indigenous Ranger Program.

Deliver culturally appropriate services and programs that are in line with traditional Aboriginal values and practices of the Wiradjuri Nation such as:

Welcome to country and smoking ceremonies
Wiradjuri cultural workshops – Wiradjuri language, cultural dance performances, school education sessions and cultural camps
Tourism – Cultural tours to culturally significant places
NAIDOC celebration for community as Mingaan Wiradjuri Aboriginal Corporation host the local community NAIDOC events
Wiradjuri Astronomy workshops
Cultural healing workshops
Aboriginal cultural heritage and archaeological surveys
Aboriginal Heritage Site Awareness Training workshops
Aboriginal heritage conservation land management workshops such as: traditional burning and river management and provides cultural consultation for both the private and public sectors.

Our vision is to establish an Indigenous Ranger Program for the greater Lithgow area to create training and employment opportunities and contributes toward :

Aboriginal Conservation Land Management – Caring for Country

Projects;

Fencing, protective barrier/bollards
Track work – walking tracks risk mitigation for soil erosion and natural values
Cultural Burn program – Implementing cultural burn workshops to
Rock Art Conservation – restoration of significant sites containing rock art to preserve for future generations to appreciate and learn from
Pest management – feral animal and weed control

Cultural Education

NAIDOC celebrations
Cultural educational workshops

Aboriginal Health and Well-being

Aboriginal Mental Health

Cultural workshops

Wiradjuri language
Tool making
Aboriginal Art/Craft
Weaving

Cultural Camps

Host cultural camps

Aboriginal Site Awareness Training Workshops

Deliver Aboriginal site awareness training workshops

Aboriginal Archaeological Survey & Assessment

Cultural Healing

Cultural healing is a way of healing for both landscape and community.

Bushfire Recovery

Aboriginal Place – clean up after bushfires, removing rubbish and burnt out vehicles
Rock Art restoration – A community volunteer project restoring rock art sites impacted by bushfires, funded by Energy Australia through Bushfire Recovery programs.
Community recovery and well-being after bushfires and natural disasters – cleansing and smoking ceremony for residence directly impacted by bushfires
Native Bee workshops
Ecological workshops restoring natural bushlands

Tourism (Bookings are essential)

Cultural Site Tours