Person: Cheryl Overton (Davison)
Cheryl Overton is a Walbunja and Ngarigo artist and storyteller based on the South Coast. Cheryl’s work focuses on stories from Yuin Country and showcases the landscape of Yuin Lands and Seas. Cheryl’s artwork was on the AFL Sydney Swan’s Indigenous Round Jersey. She is passionate about language, historical research and cultural education. Outside of her visual artistry, Cheryl was a member of a Gulaga National Park Board of Management, is the Aboriginal Creative Producer for the Four Winds Festival in Bermagui and Founder of Djinama Yilaga, a choir that sings in the Dhurga language.
Domestic Servants
Cheryl Overton talks about domestic servants and her family’s stories and where young children from the boy’s and girl’s home where taken and forced to work….
Dulagaal
Cheryl Overton talks about the dulagaal. She shares a story of her uncles and grandfather running from a dulagaal….
Invasion Day / Survival Day Australia Day
Cheryl Overton talks about January 26, what the day means to her and her perspective. She discusses why she thinks the date should change….
Messengers
Cheryl Overton talks about messengers. She shares her totem and explains how the animals share messages and news….
Native Title
Cheryl Overton talks about native title and her views on it. She shares that the stories Aboriginal people grew up with and were passed on like Guluga are proof of Aboriginal existance in this country….
Reggie Walker
Cheryl Overton shares the story of her Grandfather, Reggie Walker. She talks about his history with injury, his experience as a labourer and the reason her family moved….
Removal of Rights
Cheryl Overton talks about the removal of Aboriginal rights, soveriengty and land rights….
Seasonal Work
Cheryl Davison talks about season work and the industries that Yuin people would work in….
