Glenda Williams

About The Author

Glenda Williams was born on the Gnowangerup Mission site and began her schooling in Gnowangerup. She moved to Albany and went to school locally. She is a Senior Health Worker with Great Southern Aboriginal Health and works in lower and central Great Southern when the need arises. She is a talented visual artist. Being involved with Wirlomin is important to her because it means connecting with family, reconnecting with the old people from long ago, getting back on Country, knowing the history of our people and re-learning and speaking language.

Books by Glenda Williams

Ngalak Yongka Miyak Koorliny

Visiting the Kangaroo-Moon Site

By Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories, Kim Scott and Graeme Miniter
Illustrated by Glenda Williams

This story comes from the wise and ancient language of the First People of the Western Australian south coast.

Yongka Miyak is a special ancestral place where, imprinted in granite, is the shape of a resting kangaroo surrounded by the phases of the moon. Ngalak Yongka Miyak Koorliny

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