with his family history etched along the banks of the darling, badger bates, a barkindji elder showstimate connection with the river. see, even animals are dying. and one of our concerns are the mussel shells, darling mussels. they are just dying. well, it's proof that the water sharing plan is not worth the piece of paper it's written on and that it's a bunch of lies that wrote the plan, because look. look what they have given us. they have made the mess, they clean it and they fix it. you can drink it. a little bit brackish but it's good water. although the barkindji people have native title to their lands, their rights don't extend to the river water which is what people called the barker. in 2015 they gave us native title of the recognition that we are the barkindji people, and we say what's the good of giving us a native title and taking our water? the river is our mother, it owns us, we don't own the river. according to aboriginal legend, the river was created by a dreamtime serpent which scoured the land, joining up the water holes. for the barkindji people, the imminent death