The last hundred years have been the equivalent of a cultural holocaust for the Djabuganydji people, who, dispossessed of the land and the ritual life that celebrated their living bond with that country, have been deprived of their heritage and subjected to a coercive regime of assimilation to a culture with values and practices alien to their own.
The forests that have been a source of sustenance for thousands upon thousands of years have been plundered by commercial interests. Towns, suburbs, cane-fields, farms, highways, tourist developments all have made their mark upon the landscape.
