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Dream time inspires mountainous change

Stuart Rintoul | December 12, 2008
Article from:  The Australian

AS she turns her horse towards the granite range that has been known for 150
years as the Niggerheads, Kath Baird is talking about dreams and a people who
were thought to have vanished from the face of the Earth.

After 15 years of agitating for the Niggerheads to be renamed to celebrate,
rather than denigrate, the Aboriginal people of the Bogong High Plains, the
Niggerheads, rising between Mt Hotham and Falls Creek in the Victorian Alps,
will today become known as the Jaithmathangs after an Aboriginal clan that
lived in the area before white occupation.

Ms Baird says the name came to her in a dream. "I reckon it was the spirits of
the Jaithmathang mob telling me, 'Get it together, this is our place'," she
says.

"The word nigger was born out of racism and hate, and I think it's something we
can live without."

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