Sentence examples for Guruma from high-quality English sources.

• Mining tenements cover 93% of Eastern Guruma country, WGAC said.

• The Banjima people, whose traditional estates border the Guruma, say the Pilbara’s traditional owners have had no choice but to “trade away their heritage” to mining interests.

• A third rock shelter contains engravings that depict animal and human figures, animal tracks and geometric motifs: sacred text for the Eastern Guruma peoples representing creation stories.

• WGAC said the Eastern Guruma people are in a similar situation to others in the Pilbara, who “also find themselves with tightly contained agency, unable to object to or seek recourse on heritage or tenure decisions.”

• Now some weeks down the track and after the Juukan Cave fiasco(so many countless others turned to dust and debris, just on the Wintawari Guruma Aboriginal Corporation (WGAC) lands), the Parliament remains sitting on its hands.

• Gaines said the company had previously agreed on a boundary around Spear Hill after working with Eastern Guruma people and Aboriginal heritage professionals nominated by WGAC, and “consequently designed our mining operations to stay outside of the agreed boundary”.

• “Everybody, every group, has stories about places that were culturally very valuable that are now inaccessible, or gone, or diminished, or perched on the edge of a mining site,” says Dr Kathryn Przywolnik, the heritage manager for the Wintawari Guruma Aboriginal Corporation (WGAC).

• In a submission to the Senate inquiry into Juukan Gorge, which will hold its first public hearing on Friday, the Wintawari Guruma Aboriginal Corporation (WGAC) said the two rock shelters contain evidence of use and occupation by humans dating back 47,800 years in one, and 60,000 years in the second.

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• Of 123 sites affected, 12 sites were identified by Eastern Guruma people to be of great cultural importance, “being sites where customary law originated, birthing places, rock shelters dating back to earlier than 40,000 years ago, ceremonial sites, sites for storing sacred objects and rock art sites”.

• “Within two generations, Eastern Guruma people have seen their country change from a remote place teeming with wildlife, fresh water and unbroken sacred narratives that networked through the Pilbara, to a heavily industrialised mining hub, now dissected by railways, dry and devoid of animals,” WGAC said.