The Indigenous rounds of the AFLW competition is a tribute to the game's primordial past inside a creation of the 21st century.

But the impact of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island females to shape a modern-day version of Australian rules has been culturally timeless.

Before the clubs of Melbourne, Fremantle and Port Adelaide, there was a period that Marngrook was played out on their locations of Naarm, Walyalup and Yartapuulti.

For the next two weekends, those place names return to the scoreboards and cheers of supporters in the AFLW's celebration of Moments forged by First Nations platform.

The recognition acknowledges the unforgettable moments and contributions of past and present Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players and umpires, who paved a way for other First Nations peoples to pursue their passion for the Indigenous game.

The three AFLW sides will follow in the footsteps of their male counterparts and swap club names for traditional language names across rounds 7 and 8 of the 2023 season.

Narrm comes from the Woi Wurrung language meaning Melbourne, Walyalup is the Noongar name for the Fremantle region, while Yartapuulti is from the Kaurna word denoting the land surrounding the Port River.

Melbourne first turned to Naarm last year to "acknowledge and educate on Australia's Indigenous history, while encouraging productive conversations within Melbourne football club's membership and supporter base", the club said in a statement.

This year Fremantle became known as Walyalup and former star Roger Hayden, who is in charge of the club's Next Generation Academy, has created its guernsey and logo.

Port Adelaide also rebranded this year's teams as Yartapuulti, relying on First-Nations creative agency Ochre Dawn and designer Brooke Rigney-Lively for its new branding of the area that translates 'Yarta' from land or place and 'Puulti' from death or sleep.

All 18 AFLW clubs will continue to wear specially-designed Indigenous guernseys.

Noongar Wandandi Boodja man and current AFL umpire, Joshua James, fashioned the uniforms for his respective whistleblowers.

The AFLW will pay its respects to the Traditional Custodians of the land with ground signage to feature not only the Indigenous name of each venue, but in addition to a representation of Aboriginal women's art symbols across the turf.

In another AFLW first, Sherrin has created a unique AFLW Indigenous football for the occasion.

Proud Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri and Nurrunga woman, Gabrielle Stengle, has decorated the balls to replace the Sherrin name, with the phrase 'Tidna Parntu', the word used in Kaurna language, for football.

AFL Executive General Manager Inclusion and Social Policy, Tanya Hosch said the AFL is pleased to commemorate the contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to the game in an extension of the AFL's Sir Doug Nicholls rounds.

"Not only do we recognise the important moments in our game that were created by Indigenous players, but we remember the moments we wish to never see repeated and those that have us excited due to the outstanding skills and talent Indigenous women bring to the game," the Torres Strait Islander woman said.

"As leaders in Australian sport, we are incredibly proud of the role Indigenous rounds plays in celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players, umpires, officials.

"This is more important than ever before given this week is the referendum for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament."