Xavier Savage, a Cairns native, connects deeply with his Torres Strait heritage and ancestral land.
Xavier Savage has a premiership trophy with the ladder-leaders at the forefront of his mind.
But lingering in the back is a piece of land in the Torres Strait Islands.
Born and raised in Cairns, Savage grew up in a big family that already had strong ties to their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
A life-changing journey to the Torres Strait as a 15-year-old only deepened that connection.
Savage met local elders, who revealed his ancestral bond to the Islands went back six generations and that his family owned a parcel of land that had sat untouched for decades.
The 23-year-old...