Developing Place-responsive Pedagogy in Outdoor Environmental Education by Alistair Stewart

Author:Alistair Stewart
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030403201
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

7.4 Learning with and from Indigenous People

The Murray Cod is the largest fish species in the MDB with multiple and diverse cultural meanings (Sinclair, 2004). The fish is at once a creation being, a target species of recreational fishing, and predator fish suffering significant ecological decline as a result of changes to land and water use in its habitat. For the Ngarrindjeri people, traditional owners of the lower reaches of the river, the creation being Pondee, a giant cod, has played a significant role in shaping the river and the life of its indigenous people:The Ngarrindjeri relate how this giant pondee was chased down the Murray River, from the junction of the Darling River, by the ancestral being Ngurunderi who was trying to spear the fish. The pondee thrashed through what was a small stream, widening it by the movement of its strong tail and thus creating the Murray River in what is now known as South Australia. When pondee was caught it was cut up and the pieces of the pondee became different fresh and saltwater fish species to sustain the Ngarrindjeri people (Weir, 2009, p. 30).

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