As Elders pass away, many take with them the language and the precious knowledge of their
country and culture. In 2017 , the Adnymathanha community sought support to recreate a traditional story about their female ancestors and the creation of Adnyamathanha country. In 2019, the …
In 2012-2013 a group of Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaanyatjarra language speakers from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in Western Australia recorded traditional verbal arts and sand stories.
Even in Australian Indigenous communities where traditional spoken languages are still relatively …
Yidumduma shares the story and songline connected to his mother's Dreaming country Golorog-ya, Peaceful and Diamond Dove Rockhole, Jowarrin, on neighbouring Willeroo Station. The beautiful basalt rocks are the Dove People who sang, danced and created this special spring. …
Grandmother’s Stories is a project run by Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi to support the intergenerational transmission of Indigenous cultural knowledge for Aboriginal women in the Central Australian region. In this video we hear from Bessie Dickson who lives in the community of …
‘Alpiri’ is a form of motivational or instructional speech traditionally used in the early morning in Anangu camps. Usually an elder would get up early to broadcast a message to people waking in the camp. In the alpiri video series, we have produced short videos in which …
Western Desert Verbal Arts Project Collection
From 2012 - 2017 Ngaatjatjarra linguist Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis worked with Inge Kral and Jennifer Green to document the endangered verbal arts of the Australian Western Desert.
The Western Desert dialects spoken in the …
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