Welcome to Country in my language, we use the term “Bungan dhu buma” to Welcome the person so that the land can look after them and also for the person to feel safe within the Yolngu community. It is part of accepting a foreigner into the Yolngu ways and living.
Reference
Crocker, L. 2004. “Report of the Natural Resource Management Community
Forum.” Adelaide, SA, Natural Resource Management. http://www.nrm.gov.au/
publications/forum/april2004/app2.html
