This article undertakes a wayamiilbuwawanha, a looking back through and with the seven principles of Waya Yindyamarra Songspiral Methodology ( Rogers, 2025 ), in order to deepen understanding of how the methodology functions as a Wiradjuri matrilineal ontological and methodological approach to research. Grounded in Wiradjuri matrilineal ontology and informed by Indigenous Women’s Standpoint Theory, the article extends the earlier formulation of Waya Yindyamarra by making its analytic process more explicit and demonstrating how it can be operationalised across historical, ancestral, visual, and poetic texts. Through engagement with Wiradjuri language, Martin’s (2008) seven entities of Country, colonial historical records about Wiradjuri women, ancestral stories, collage, and poetic inquiry, I show how Waya Yindyamarra works as both a methodology and a living mode of analysis and creation. In doing so, the article reaffirms Wiradjuri women as life givers, transmitters of bloodline, totem, knowledge, responsibility, and story, while demonstrating how story itself operates as methodological teacher, analytic guide, and generative force in Indigenous research.
Jessa Rogers (Mon,) studied this question.