The digital media project 12 Canoes is a broadband website presenting, in an artistic, cultural and educational context, the stories, art and environment of the Yolngu people who live around the Arafura swamp in north-eastern Arnhem Land. While the Yolngu people of the Arufura swamp are a particular and numerically small sample, their wealth in story and art highlight who and why they are and hence the importance in acknowledging and preserving their culture. In this context the site is a reference and educational resource. 12 Canoes is also intended to be engaging as a contemporary and personal work. Ganalbingu-Yolgnu heritage will be presented through the works and stories of key community members. By way of kinship they are the owners and managers of stories and history and are bestowed with the responsibility for telling them. While they are the keepers for the collective, their individuality will present aspects of their present and everyday lives in their hometown of Ramingining. The related Canoes projects will also facilitate, in partnership with the community and its members, the collection of content and materials for the website. A number of artworks for 12 Canoes have already been licensed (non exclusively) in the development stage by establishing a co-operative relationship with Bula’bula Arts in Ramingining. 12 Canoes will be compelling in presentation. Websites allow for the presentation of information beyond traditional linear narrative: Yolngu storytelling presents like a lattice of links across the spiritual, kinship and place making this medium ideal for presenting such content. Audiences will be able to navigate the content at random even though the content will be inter-connected via a strong dynamic database.