Hi, my name is Shane Woods. I'm an Aboriginal person of the 
Great Southern, I originally come from just down the foot of 
the Sterling Ranges, in a little town called Borden.
I believe that attending funerals, a family member always 
lived these traditional ways of supporting families.
Going to funerals is a very important thing for Aboriginal families.
They stick together, this is more or less a gathering thing, 
where they come together after not seeing each other  
over a period of time, even years, but knowing that they've always 
known this person who passed on and they always supported
each other in those areas.
Hunting and gathering food is still in our area, is still located - 
speaking on behalf of myself, I've always lived a traditional life 
with my grandmother's way. I go and gather kangaroo meat during
the summer and go and kill a goanna and things like that.
And also collecting food like 'coorups' - they're little long
sort of a fruit. You can eat them green or you can eat them when 
they're ripe. They go, during the end of the summer, they're really 
purpley-pinky colour - they're very nice to eat. So our traditional 
food and things like that are still in the time of now.