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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi nhagudja = I see (bugs), 2006
Reader with children's illustrations and bi-lingual text.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi nhagudja = I see (animals), 2006
Reader with children's illustrations and bi-lingual text.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi nhagudja = I see (birds), 2006
Reader with children's illustrations and bi-lingual text.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi nhagudja = I see (sea creatures), 2006
Reader with children's illustrations and bi-lingual text.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi nhagudja = I see (weather), 2006
Reader with children's illustrations and bi-lingual text. Elementary standard.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi dhura =? my family, 2006
Children's illustrations with bi-lingual text. Elementary standard.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Tania Wanganeen, Ngayi wandidja = I live at, 2006
Reader with children's illustrations and bi-lingual text. Elementary standard.Illustrationsnarungga, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, C W Peck, Australian legends : tales handed down from the remotest times by the autocthonous inhabitants of our land, 1933
Different text to the original edition. Does not include stories of White Pioneers, but concentrates on Creation Stories, flora and fauna, etc.B&w illustrations, b&w photographscreation stories, mythology, folklore -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, C W Peck, Australian legends : tales handed down from the remotest times by the autocthonous inhabitants of our land : parts 1 and 2, 1925
Peck has collected a range of myths and legends from Aboriginal people, and also stories of the early pioneers in Australia.b&w illustrationscreation stories, myths and legends -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Edward M Curr, The Australian race : its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent : vol. 1, 1886
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Edward M Curr, The Australian race : its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent : vol. 2, 1886
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Edward M Curr, The Australian race : its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent : vol. 3, 1887
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, James Dawson, Australian Aborigines : the languages and customs of several tribes of Aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia, 1981
Comprehensive collection of details from James Dawson and his daughter on the people they met when they first settled in the Western District of Victoria in 1840. Detailed notes were kept on language and customs. He involved himself with the local people and respected their rights and lifestyle. He recorded incidents of their first contact with white people.b&w photographs, word lists, document reproductionswestern district, chaap wuurong, djab wurrung, peek whuurong, peek woorong, kuurn kopan noot, dhauwurd wurrung, birds, reptiles, relationship terms -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, RMW Dixon, Australian languages: their nature and development, 2002
Very comprehensive technical linguistic introduction to the Australian language family, a follow-up to Dixon?s ?The Languages of Australia? (1980). Numerous maps, isoglosses, tables, comparative grammar, phonology, semantics, etc. 1. The language situation in Australia 2. Modelling the language situation 3. Overview 4. Vocabulary 5. Case and other nominal suffixes 6. Verbs 7. Pronouns 8. Bound pronouns 9. Prefixing and fusion 10. Generic nouns, classifiers, genders and noun classes 11. Ergative/?accusative morphological and syntactic profiles 12. Phonology 13. Genetic subgroups and small linguistic areas 14. Summary and conclusion.Mapslinguistics, language surveys -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, John Mathew, Eaglehawk and crow : a study of the Australian Aborigines, including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages, 1899
Original text featuring Mathew's comprehensively detailed observations and theories on the origin of species of Aboriginal people, traditional lifestyles, art and social customs.maps, b&w illustrations, word lists, tablesjohn mathew, eaglehawk and crow, stories -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Nicholas Thieberger, Paper and talk : a manual for reconstituting materials in Australian Indigenous languages from historical sources, 1995
Collection of essays about language and language sources.Sheet music, b&w photographs, maps, word listslinguistics, murri, endangered languages -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, J Hobson, Re-awakening languages : theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages, 2010
Language policy and planning, Language in communities, Language centres and programs, Language in education, Literacy and oracy, Language and technology, Language documentationScreen shots, b&w photographs, b&w diagramslinguistics, sociolinguistics, kaurna, wiradjuri, ngapartji ngapartji, dharug, dhurga, language and technology -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Peter Sutton et al, Revised linguistic fieldwork manual for Australia, 1979
Excellent fieldwork manual detailing methods of collecting and analysing Australian languages, including chapters on phonology, lexicon & semantics, grammatical categories, and syntax. Contains an English target wordlist of basic vocabulary (with scientific names of flora and fauna). Information on phonological transcription uses symbols that are now generally obsolete, but are found in many key studies conducted around the time of publication.word listslinguistics, language fieldwork, audio recording -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Robert Brough Smyth, The Aborigines of Victoria : with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania : compiled from various sources for the Government of Victoria by R. Brough Smyth : vol. 1, 1878
Produced in two large volumes, Robert Brough Smyth has collected information on various tribes and their customs, as well as their physical and mental character; birth and education of children; marriage; death and burial of the dead; daily lives of the natives; food; diseases; dress and personal ornaments; weapons; implements and manufacturers; nets and fish hooks; methods of producing fire; canoes and myths. Smyth also devotes about two hundred pages to Aboriginal languages, as well as including details and customs of the aborigines in Tasmania. Complete with hundreds of sketches, the work is still a valuable resource not only for those with in an interest in aboriginal culture, but also those wanting to know the early history of Australia.maps, b&w illustrations, word listsrobert brough smyth, anthropology, aboriginal social life and customs, children, behaviour, death and burial customs, daily life, food, diseases, weapons, shields, boomerang, vessels, baskets, message sticks, stone tool technology, fire, canoes, myths, stories -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Robert Brough Smyth, The Aborigines of Victoria : with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania : compiled from various sources for the Government of Victoria by R. Brough Smyth : vol. 2, 1878
Produced in two large volumes, Robert Brough Smyth has collected information on various tribes and their customs, as well as their physical and mental character; birth and education of children; marriage; death and burial of the dead; daily lives of the natives; food; diseases; dress and personal ornaments; weapons; implements and manufacturers; nets and fish hooks; methods of producing fire; canoes and myths. Smyth also devotes about two hundred pages to Aboriginal languages, as well as including details and customs of the aborigines in Tasmania. Complete with hundreds of sketches, the work is still a valuable resource not only for those with in an interest in aboriginal culture, but also those wanting to know the early history of Australia.b&w illustrations, word listsrobert brough smyth, philip chauncy, william ridley, albert le souef, a. w. howitt, john moore davis, william locke, a. f. a. greeves, language comparisons, phrenology, aboriginal social life and customs, death and burial customs, weapons, tasmania, lake tyers, lake wellington, gippsland, ballarat, brabrolong, lake hindmarsh, kotoopna -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Daniel Bunce, Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria, and other Australian districts : with parallel translations and familiar specimens in dialogue, as a guide to Aboriginal protectors, and others engaged in ameliorating their condition, 1859
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Daniel Bunce, Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria, and other Australian districts : with parallel translations and familiar specimens in dialogue, as a guide to Aboriginal protectors, and others engaged in ameliorating their condition, 1859
Original edition of the word list composed in 1859 for use by the Protectors of Aboriginals in the Victorian area. Includes handwritten lists on the end papers.word lists -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Pat Dodson et al, Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Constitution : report of the expert panel, 2012
Current multiparty support has created a historic opportunity to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of Australia, to affirm their full and equal citizenship, and to remove the last vestiges of racial discrimination from the Constitution. The Expert Panel was tasked to report to the Government on possible options for constitutional change to give effect to Indigenous constitutional recognition, including advice as to the level of support from Indigenous people and the broader community for these options. This executive summary sets out the Panel's conclusions and recommendations" [taken from executive summary]. Report contains draft Bill for an Act to alter the Constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their cultures, languages and heritage, to replace racially discriminatory provisions and to include a prohibition of racial discrimination. Letter to the Prime Minister Foreword from the co-chairs Executive summary Introduction: Expert panel and its methodology 1. Historical background 2. Comparative and international recognition 3. The national conversation: themes from the consultation program 4. Forms of recognition 5. The 'race' provisions 6. Racial non-discrimination 7. Governance and political participation 8. Agreement-making 9. The question of sovereignty 10. Approaches to the referendum 11. Draft bill Appendixes Bibliography.maps, tables, colour photographs, chartsconstitutional history, legislation, australian constitution, constitutional law, closing the gap, 1967 referendum, white australia policy, sovereignty -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Commonwealth records : a guide to records in the Australian Archives, ACT Regional Office, 1993
Commonwealth records include much information which is relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Some of it is about day-to-day administration and particular events and people, and some is about policy. The intention of the guide is to make some of this information more accessible. It attempts to provide for people with different kinds of needs.government agency listings, b&w photographsresearch, archives, act regional office, public records, australian war memorial, commonwealth agencies -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Gillian Watling, Australian Government Directory, The. Incorporating Business Australia, 2010
Directory of a range of government organisations, agencies and businesses. -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Records of national cultural significance : Indigenous Australians ; a report of the Archives Working Group of the Cultural Ministers Council, 1997
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Peter Arnold Pty Ltd, The library of Tom Austen Brown on the Australian Aborigines : to be sold by auction, Melbourne 25-26 June 2002
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Leon Costermans, Native trees and shrubs of South-eastern Australia, 1998
Coloured photos and detailed line drawings are used to give a very clear description of the specific plants and details of their locations and environments.Colour photographs, illustrations, mapsplants, botany, nsw, victoria, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, South Australia Department of Education and Children's Services, Languages : Australian Indigenous languages, 2003
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia, Australia's Indigenous languages in practice, 1996
Based on the Australian Indigenous Languages Framework.b&w illustrations, tables, word lists, sample programs and examination paperskaurna, pitjantjatjara, yankunytjatjara, antikirinya, yolgnu, pilbara, language and culture, bilingual education, linguistics, language and technology, teaching programs,