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'This book is our story for the land and ceremony, it is the story from the old people, the way that they told it to us. We will keep this story going with song and ceremony. There is still Law on the country. It has not gone, we still hold the Law.

This Law in this book is not a lie, it is the truth, we can't make it up.

We Yanyuwa people have had to fight for country. We have had to stand up to keep our Law safe. We talk, talk and still some people can't believe us; words aren't good enough anymore. You have to have something to put into somebody's hand, and that is what this book is for. It is to put into peoples' hands so they can see for themselves our truth. Our words are in this book, our land, our ceremony; it is our Law.

We want people to understand us. We want people to learn, Government people and people everywhere. This book is for everyone to learn.' Source: Foreword by Mussolini Harvey, Yanyuwa Elder; Chairman, Aboriginal Sacred Sites Protection Authority