This paper uses a ‘braided knowledge’ approach to explore Aboriginal ancestral narratives, geomorphological interpretations and archaeological evidence relating to the Murray River (Rinta) in South Australia’s Riverland region. The 'knowledge carriers’ of ancestral narratives are honoured and complexities regarding the ways in which their wisdom was recorded by Europeans are considered. Commonalities between Aboriginal and Western knowledge systems are outlined through a number of key threads relating to the geographic directionality of peopling in the region, river dynamism (particularly in relation to the deglacial transformations from 15 ka) and more. Differences between knowledge systems are also explored and include descriptions of ‘Indigenous frameworks’ which embed multiple levels of meaning, as well as Aboriginal interpretations of the subsurface. The paper shows that through a collaborative exchange of ideas, together with the conscious positioning of Aboriginal knowledges, normally disparate systems may be explored to amplify our understandings of Indigenous riverscapes.

本文使用“编织知识”方法探索与南澳大利亚河地地区墨累河 (Rinta) 相关的土著祖先叙述、地貌解释和考古证据。祖先故事的“知识载体”受到尊重，欧洲人记录他们的智慧的方式也很复杂。通过与该地区人口的地理方向性、河流动态（特别是与 15 ka 的冰川消融相关的变化）等相关的一些关键线索，概述了土著和西方知识体系之间的共性。还探讨了知识体系之间的差异，包括对嵌入多层次意义的“本土框架”的描述，以及原住民对地下的解释。该论文表明，通过协作交流思想，以及有意识地定位土著知识，可以探索通常完全不同的系统，以加深我们对土著河流景观的理解。