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- Liaise with indig kitchen folks (No & Trappa)
- Find suitable accommodation for indig folk that come
- Organise a group of people to do elder care

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At SOS08 we really wanted strong and meaningful Yoree (Indigenous) participation in planning and content of the conference. This meant more than tokenistic welcomes to country. We made a real attempt to learn, understand and respect local Yoree protocol.
Local Elders were involved in SOS organizing from the very beginning, and someone form the Yoree working group was present at most of the SOS08 Organising Collective meetings. Feedback was that it was good for Indigenous participation across all areas of the conference.
It is really important to start making contact and getting meaningful consent and participation from local Indigenous people as early as possible. We held a protocol day in October-ish to establish clear understandings, expectations and relationship and to learn about protocol.
The Indigenous working group had autonomy over content and this year’s Yoree stream focused around the topic of Sovereignty. Feedback was that this was a really important, meaningful and useful time for building the sovereignty movement.
For the SOS08 Organising Collective local Yoree protocol was non-negotiable. This is the reason why the SOS program started late, because we were waiting on Indigenous Elders to arrive before being able to open SOS formally in line with Yoree protocol.
SOS08 paid rent to the traditional owners of the land for the time we were present on it. I think this amounted to $3,000.

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* Essential to read the letter from No in the attachments - so valuable!
* Need good communication between this WG and Venue/Uni liaison during the conference to resolve things quickly and in the best way possible
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1) letter from No about all things Indig