Paul Haw, spokesman Boort Interpretive Centre working group Dangers to scarred trees These trees here are officially not allowed to be removed, but nobody is to stop people from coming in and chainsawing them down for firewood. It opened in May 2008 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's Bundoora campus which sits on Wurundjeri Aboriginal land. The Keelbundoora Scarred Tree and Heritage Trail offers information and history on scarred trees. More than 600 stone tools and weapons and about 500 cooking mounds have been found nearby. Lake Boort Reserve, 255km north-west of Melbourne, is Australia's largest scarred tree site with about 900 red gums and black box trees scarred by the Dja Dja Wurrung people. The scarred tree in the image above stands near the Parramatta River. They often occur along major rivers, around lakes and on flood plains, but also at significant (sacred) sites. Scarred trees are found wherever there are mature native trees, especially box and red gum. Stuart McFarlane, Manager RMIT Ngarara Willim Indigenous Centre, Melbourne Where can you find scarred trees?
ABORIGINAL SACRED FIRE MANUAL
are our history books, but are also a manual for sustainable use of resources suited to the present day. Scarred trees are now fragile reminders of the resource harvesting techniques practised for thousands of years. The number of scarred trees is dwindling and the remaining ones need to be protected. The rest has been removed for farming, forestry or development. More than 7,500 Aboriginal-scarred trees have been recorded in NSW, but fewer than 100 carved trees remain standing in their original location. resource harvesting, for example for canoes or containers (e.g.The wounds scarred trees still display tell of the many uses Aboriginal people found for them:
When Aboriginal people scarred trees they removed large pieces of its bark and used it for traditional purposes. This one grows in Parramatta in a public park. Today scarred trees are not easy to find and protected. The medicine garden contains herbs and other plants – such as sage, cedar, sweetgrass, tobacco, and strawberries – traditionally used for ceremonies, medicinal, and blessing purposes.Aboriginal scarred tree. In many Indigenous cultures, fire honours the spirit of the ancestors. The space is shaped as a medicine wheel with a turtle in the centre for the ceremonial fire to sit upon. The ceremonial fire grounds and medicine garden on campus are a sacred space and should be honoured and respected
Individual use for peaceful reflection is encouraged The WISC oversees the space being used for cultural and educational programming and the space SHOULD NOT be used in a formal or group setting without the engagement of WISC staff or designated caretaker by WISC staff. It is used for ceremonies, educational opportunities, and other gatherings. This space facilitates community-building throughout the university and surrounding area and provides a place for peaceful reflection. The space was created in close consultation with Shatitsirótha’, Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) staff, Brian Roth, Architects, and sacred Fire Keeper Al MacDonald of Kitchener.
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