RECORDING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE O r ... - Wheatbelt NRM

SACRED SITES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
“S
acred sites are places that bear the marks of the creative ancestral spirits,
which continue to have a presence in land formations. These ancestral spirits
followed pathways and sites, and form a connection for people from various
and diverse language groups into a wider community of Aboriginal people with the land.
They are geographical features which mark episodes in the stories of the ancestral spirits’
journeys throughout Australia. Sacred sites are the settings of their custodians’ most
important knowledge and activities. They are fundamental to the sense of self.” (CALM,
2002).
A heritage site is any place of importance and significance to Aboriginal people, such as a
place where Aboriginal people have left any object; or a sacred, ritual or ceremonial site.
(State of Western Australia, 1972).
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