{"id":133,"date":"2023-05-05T11:18:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=133"},"modified":"2023-10-14T01:31:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T01:31:26","slug":"yinyila-eucla","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=133","title":{"rendered":"Yinyila \u2013 Eucla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><em>Yinyila<\/em> is the centre of our <em>Yinyila<\/em> \u2018nation\u2019 or collaboration of Mirning clans. One of the main clans in the area being the <em>Yerkala<\/em>, Venus clan and this name was taken and translated into Eucla. <em>Yerkala<\/em> means place of light and fire; <em>yer<\/em> being the place of the bright shimmering light and <em>kala<\/em> being fire and warmth. Venus is where we believe our people travel and return to and the planet is for us <em>yumerie<\/em>, family, who is also our guardian and watches over us when we travel, particularly at night and long distances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><em>Yinyila<\/em> means sand dunes, not just the coastal <em>youlbari<\/em>, sandhills or barnacles of the whale, these are the sand dunes that continue inland, covering the Nullarbor. While there were over 30 clans, many have passed on since colonisation. We are very fortunate among the <em>Yerkala<\/em> clan to continue our traditional ways and following our <em>Goonminyerra<\/em>, friendly laws and customs that have been passed down from <em>Jeedara<\/em> and <em>Yargaryilya<\/em>, the Seven Sisters. We continue to respect our ancestors and Elders and to protect our Star, Sea and Land Country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Yerkala Mirning people, our Country of stars, sea and land and the whales are <em>ngalyi goomera<\/em>, we are one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=31\">Back to Map<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Whale-with-7-Sisters-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Whale-with-7-Sisters-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Whale-with-7-Sisters-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Whale-with-7-Sisters-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Whale-with-7-Sisters-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Whale-with-7-Sisters-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Whale-with-7-Sisters-2000x1000.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yinyila-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yinyila-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yinyila-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yinyila-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yinyila-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yinyila-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Yinyila-2000x1125.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yinyila is the centre of our Yinyila \u2018nation\u2019 or collaboration of Mirning clans. One of the main clans in the area being the Yerkala, Venus clan and this name was taken and translated into Eucla. Yerkala means place of light and fire; yer being the place of the bright shimmering light and kala being fire &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/?page_id=133\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yinyila \u2013 Eucla&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-133","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaledreaming.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}