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 …

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 …

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‘The Eagle, the Crow and the Bat’ is a rich cultural story shared by the Jaara Community about Jaara totems and teachings, and how the Jaara Country came to be. A rich cultural story about Jaara totems, the book explores why the Eagle is the Lord of the Highlands, how the …

‘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 …