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Going home to Girramay
Making this video was a journey about finding myself, reconnecting with my mob and reaching out to other Indigenous mob to inspire them to find their connection to family, country and culture.
It's also about educating the broader community of non-Indigenous people, and the …
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Aboriginal women stepping into their power
Rhonda Radley is a descendant of the Gathang and Dunghutti speaking people. She sees a need in her community to bring women from all the different Aboriginal groups together. She has found strength within herself to drive a movement that does just that, and to revive culture …
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From Dhungala with love
A Yorta Yorta elder films an ABC Open Video Postcard on a smartphone and blogs about her ancestral language.
My grandmother was one of the last Yorta Yorta speakers. She taught Yorta Yorta language at Worowa College in Healesville, Victoria. At some stage I undertook the …
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Our Mother Tongue: GunaiKurnai
This is a story about a dynamic group of women who are reviving the GunaiKurnai language throughout East Gippsland in Victoria: Lynnette Solomon-Dent, Dr Doris Paton and Hollie Johnson.
Dr Paton explains that not everything in her language can be directly translated into …
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Our Mother Tongue Woiwurrung
One day, right before her 14th birthday, Joy Wandin Murphy woke up with a bad feeling. She refused to go to school. She had an unshakeable sense of dread that something was going to happen to her father. Joy was eventually permitted to stay home, and her father passed away that …
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Waking a sleeping language in the Midwest - Nhanda
Nhanda is a Midwest language spoken in the region from Geraldton to the Murchison River, yet very few people speak it fluently today.
In an attempt to stimulate and invigorate the sleeping language, a number of resources have been recently produced, in the hope that more …
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A bicultural future for Leonora Aboriginal languages
Sue Hanson is a linguist, and for the last four years she's been working with a small group of women from Leonora, two hours drive north of Kalgoorlie in the West Australian Goldfields. They are some of the last remaining speakers of Kuwarra, the language of the people from …
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Wadawurrung language: Bonan Youang
Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.
Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …
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Wadawurrung language: Borombeet
Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.
Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …
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Wadawurrung language: Kareet Bareet
Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.
Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …
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Wadawurrung language: Ballaarat
Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.
Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …
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Wadawurrung language: Wurdi Youang
Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.
Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …
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Wadawurrung language: Kuarka dorla
Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.
Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …
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Wadawurrung language: Lal Lal
Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.
Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …
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Wadawurrung language: Modewarre
Wadawurrung country stretches from the mountains to the sea. It includes hills, rivers and grassy plains, creeks and coasts and includes modern towns such as Werribee, Geelong and Ballarat in Victoria.
Since colonisation, white fellas have tried to write down our Wadawurrung …
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Painting Perta Tyurretye
Gloria Panka is the granddaughter of the famous watercolour artist Albert Namatjira (deceased), who was awarded a coronation medal from Queen Elizabeth in 1953 for his extraordinary talent. Gloria and her grandfather Albert come from the mission Ntaria also known as …
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Sprung with Durris
Liz and Lyiata roleplay a scenario using typical Moree Aboriginal English language.
List of Moree Aboriginal English:
mirraybirrays… girls and boys / children
corroboree… dance
yilay… hey
gookintji… black
gutchinas… kids
myall… act stupid/ shame …
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Keeping an ancient language alive
A few people speak the Indigenous Djabuguy language fluently. Michael Quinn, an Englishman, is one of them.
It was 1986 when he arrived in the Far North Queensland town of Kuranda with his young family. Before this he had been living in Sydney where he studied a four year …
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My pride and joy stick
When Aunty Lee Healy decided to make the first dictionary for the Taungurung language, she didn’t know what she was in for.
The dictionary took four years to make and Aunty Lee says, “I don’t think my mind stopped.”
“It became my passion. I would get up at 3.30 in …
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