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"Sovereignty", "transparency" and "stop hurting my country" have been some of the words used by Northern Territory Indigenous leaders to protest against mining on their land.
Now they are hoping to harness the power of political art to spread that message further.
They have been photographed with bold statements painted on their bare chests and arms for an exhibition which has opened at the Darwin Festival.
The group, from the Borroloola area of the Gulf of Carpentaria, is using the images to protest against air pollution and contamination of fish by Glencore's controversial McArthur River Mine.
They also hope the exhibition will act as a rallying cry to other Indigenous communities across Australia who feel they have lost power over mining and other developments on their land.
Garawa Indigenous leader Jack Green was photographed with the words "open cut" on his chest.
"I want to get more information out there to Australia that we're hurt inside," he said.
"Because the mine has damaged our sacred site, the Rainbow Snake. They're taking all the guts, the minerals, out of that snake.
"So we've put it on our chests to get people to understand what that does to us, and that the mine is not negotiating with the whole community."
The mine diverted the McArthur River and ploughed through the Rainbow Serpent Dreaming, after it changed from an underground operation to open cut in 2007.
In 2013, the Northern Territory and Federal Governments approved a major expansion of the mine 900 kilometres from Darwin.
Six months later, reactive rock in the mine's waste dump started burning, sending a plume of toxic iron sulphide smoke over the Gulf.
Every year since 2014, the site's independent monitor has found the mine has contaminated fish in McArthur River tributaries with lead.
The company is currently going through an Environmental Impact Statement process to prove it can stop both in order to be allowed to continue with the expansion plan.
Garawa traditional owner Nancy McDinny was also photographed with protest words in the Garawa language on her chest and arms.
"We got the photos taken to get the story out, that we need the land to be healthy for everyone to walk on," she said.
"We're worried about the McArthur River and we don't want any more mining on the land. We want a clean country."
Darwin artist and photographer Therese Ritchie said she got the idea for the exhibition after Mr Green asked her to read community information brochures published by the mine.
"I thought it would be very interesting to take the language of the mine and project it onto Aboriginal people," Ritchie said.
"We got a long list of the language from the mine, and the people chose what they wanted written on them, where they wanted it, and why. When I started photographing people, more and more turned up."
The exhibition also includes anti-mining paintings, including Mr Green's Yee-haw Money Trucks.
"Year after year the mining trucks take the minerals, spirit and wealth from the country," he said.
"Just like the cowboys scream 'Yee-haw' at the rodeo, I imagine the miners riding their trucks across our country screaming: 'Yee-haw, I'm rich!'"
The exhibition's curator Sean Kerins, from the Centre for Aboriginal and Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University, is planning to take the exhibition around Australia.
"Borroloola is a very distant place, so it's difficult for people living on Australia's east coast to know what's happening, in terms of northern development, and who's bearing the cost of that," he said.
"It's also very difficult for Aboriginal people to organise to negotiate with the mine and governments, particularly when they are having to rely on the mine to help provide citizenship services, which Australians get from the state.
"So we were keen to use art to show people what is happening."
McArthur River Mining said it enjoyed a "close relationship with the local community of the Gulf region as well as stakeholders across the Northern Territory".
"Our relationship is built on the basis of open communication and transparency. Our Senior Community Relations Adviser visits Borroloola several times a week, while other communities in the region are visited regularly.
"We are in regular contact with traditional owners to seek their advice."
The company also has a Community Reference Group which it said is "an opportunity for local residents ... to hear about what is happening at [the mine] as well as ask questions of senior management".
All community members can attend those meetings.
The company said its Community Benefits Trust had invested more than $12 million into about 78 programs to support social-economic development in the Gulf region.
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