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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Ann E Wells, This their dreaming : legends of the panels of Aboriginal art in the Yirrkala Church, 1971
Some time before the end of the year 1962, two great panels of Aboriginal art were begun. They were painted for part of a screen placed behind the Communion table in the Yirrkala church, and represented the two main, creative legends governing the lives, the behaviour and the ritual of the Aborigines belonging to a wide area of northeast Arnhem Land. Gives a brief outline of circumstances surrounding the panels. Lists the artists for each moiety. Maps show the territory of the people mentioned in the text. For each panel, there is a description of each section and an explanation of associated myths. Dua panel - the Djankawu journeys. Yiritja panel - legend of Banaitja. Glossary of terms.b&w art reproductionsyirrkala, yirrkala church, arnhem land -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Philip L Brown, The Todd journal 1835 : Andrew alias William Todd (John Batman?s recorder) and his Indented Head journal 1835, 1989
Reproduction of the 1835 journal of Andrew/William Todd, recorder and assistant to John Batman, with numerous contemporary illustrations of early settlements and landscapes. Notes on the customs and many incidents with Victorian and Tasmanian Aborigines.maps, b&w illustrations, b&w photographsjohn batman, victorian history, andrew todd, william todd -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Irene Watson, Looking at you, looking at me... : Aboriginal culture and history of the South-east of South Australia. Volume 1, 2002
The author is an Aboriginal woman, descendant of a family of long and continuous association with the south-east region of South Australia. This book attempts to overcome some of the difficulties in colonial relationships of the past to piece together the history of the Aboriginal people who survived in this area.maps, b&w photographssouth australian history -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Bruce Pascoe et al, Wathaurong : the people who said no, 2003
The Wathaurong people of South Western Victoria said no to European invasion. Learn about this heroic resistance to the occupation of their lands. Can white and black live together or must we be always at war? The answer can only be given by young Australians. Includes a comprehensive historical timeline.maps, colour illustrations, b&w illustrations, colour photographs, word listswathaurong, wadtharung, port philllip bay, western port bay, lorne, south west victoria, battle creek, aire river, werribee, ballarat, wathaurong aboriginal cooperative, coast action, koori studies, john batman, william buckley, aboriginal studies policy, secondary school education, hissing swan, victorian history -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Sue Wesson, An historical atlas of the Aborigines of Eastern Victoria and Far South-eastern New South Wales, 2000
An extremely detailed atlas of tribes, clans, and languages in eastern Victoria and south-eastern New South Wales. Includes maps, census information about the numbers and makeup of these clans in historical records, meanings and comparative spellings of all known named tribes and clans.maps, b&w photographs, colour photographs, tables -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Charles White, The story of the blacks : the Aborigines of Australia /? Charles White (1845-1922)
This work was originally published in serialised form in the Bathurst Free Press around the turn of the century by Charles White and afterwards syndicated to other newspapers and still later reached the galley-proof stage of publication. The text for this edition was obtained from a copy of the Ovens Register 1904-1905, held by the Burke Museum, Beechworth, Victoria. This edition includes some preliminary material, glossary, notes, index and bibliography prepared by Peter A Jones.maps, b&w photographs, b&w illustrationscharles white -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Ian D Clark, The Yalukit-willam : the First People of Hobsons Bay, 2011
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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, E M Yelland, The baron of the frontier : South Australia-Victoria, Robert Rowland Leake (1811-1860), 1973
Brothers Robert and Edward Leake brought the first Anglo Merino sheep to Australia, where they became successful squatters in the South Australian/Victoria area.maps, b&w illustrations, b&w photographs -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, The Aboriginal people of the Monaro, 2000
A comprehensive history of the Aboriginal people of the Monaro district. Written by a collection of contributors.maps, b&w photographs, b&w illustrations, document reproductions -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book with CD, Altji Ambrose Piyalam, A-wurrumbun-ga na Ninderrpil i na Ngindjirridi = saltwater crocodile at Ninderrpil and Ngindjirridi: ancestral knowledge of the Magati Ke Rak Yederr and Marri Ngarr Rak Thawurr, 2003
... Ngarr Rak Thawurr Story in Language and English maps ...Story in Language and Englishmaps, illustrations, photographs, CDstorytelling in language, magati ke rak yederr, marri ngarr rak thawurr -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book with CD, Denise Smith-Ali, Djerap 1, 2010
... Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages 33 Saxon ...Language reader.Colour photographs, maps, word listsnoongar, western australia, birds -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book with CD, Kaurna alphabet book : with an introduction to the Kaurna language, 2006
... : with an introduction to the Kaurna language Maps, colour photographs, word ...Maps, colour photographs, word lists, CDkaurna, kaurna plains school -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book with CD, Yugal : Gamilaraay & Yuwaalaraay songs, 2003
... & Yuwaalaraay songs Songs in Language and English. Maps, colour ...Songs in Language and English.Maps, colour illustrations, colour photographs, word listsgamilaraay, yuwaalaraay -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book with CD-ROM, Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia, Australia's Indigenous languages, 1996
The book shows that Australia's languages are rich, living languages that are relevant to all Australians. You can share the pride that Indigenous people have in their language by reading their accounts of what their language means to them and by learning about how Australian Indigenous languages are structured and used.Maps, colour illustrations, colour photographs, word lists, sheet music, CD-ROMlanguage and culture, bilingual education, linguistics, language and technology, yorta yorta, ganai -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Sue Atkinson, Bartja and Mayila, 2013
When Bartja?s best friend Mayila plans to leave the forest they live in to visit the ocean, Bartja wants to find her the perfect parting gift. With some advice from Uncle Ambrose and the forest animals, Bartja creates a gift that Mayila will treasure. Bartja and Mayila written by Sue Atkinson (Yorta Yorta) and illustrated by Annette Sax (Taungurung). This is the first book in the YSS series, giving young children insight into Indigenous Victorian culture. The ?Yarn Strong Sista? series is supported by background notes and ideas for related activities.Maps, illustrations, CDyorta yorta, educational activities, barmah forest, language list -
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Book, RMW Dixon, Australian languages: their nature and development, 2002
... ?The Languages of Australia? (1980). Numerous maps, isoglosses, tables ...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 -
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Book, Peter K Austin, Endangered languages : beliefs and ideologies in language documentation and revitalisation, 2014
... Languages /? Bernard Spolsky. maps, b&w photographs, tables, graphs ...1.Introduction /? Julia Sallabank pt. 1 Case Studies: Beliefs and Ideologies in Endangered Language Communities 2.Paradoxes of Engagement with Irish Language Community Management, Practice, and Ideology /? Tadhg O. Hifearnain 3.Fluidity in Language Beliefs: The Beliefs of the Kormakiti Maronite Arabic Speakers of Cyprus towards their Language /? Chryso Hadjidemetriou 4.Reflections on the Promotion of an Endangered Language: The Case of Ladin Women in the Dolomites (Italy) /? Olimpia Rasom 5.Minority Language Use in Kven Communities: Language Shift or Revitalization? /? Anna-Kaisa Raisanen 6.Going, Going, Gone? The Ideologies and Politics of Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Endangerment and Revitalization /? Peter K. Austin 7.Language Shift in an `Importing Culture': The Cultural Logic of the Arapesh Roads /? Lise M. Dobrin pt. 2 Language Documentation and Revitalization: What and Why? Contents note continued: 8.Ideologies, Beliefs, and Revitalization of Guernesiais (Guernsey) /? Julia Sallabank 9.Local Language Ideologies and Their Implications for Language Revitalization among the Sumu-Mayangna Indians of Nicaragua's Multilingual Caribbean Coast Region /? Eloy Frank Gomez 10.Must "We Save the Language? Children's Discourse on Language and Community in Provencal and Scottish Language Revitalization Movements /? James Costa 11.Revitalizing the Maori Language? /? Jeanette King 12.What Are We Trying to Preserve? Diversity, Change, and Ideology at the Edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields /? Jeff Good 13.The Cost of Language Mobilization: Wangkatha Language Ideologies and Native Title /? Jessica Boynton 14.Finding the Languages We Go Looking For /? Tonya N. Stebbins 15.Meeting Point: Parameters for the Study of Revival Languages /? Christina Eira pt. 3 From Local to International: Interdisciplinary and International Views Contents note continued: 16.Conflicting Goals, Ideologies, and Beliefs in the Field /? Simone S. Whitecloud 17.Whose Ideology, Where, and When? Rama (Nicaragua) and Francoprovencal (France) Experiences /? Michel Bert 18.UN Discourse on Linguistic Diversity and Multilingual ism in the 2000s: Actor Analysis, Ideological Foundations, and Instrumental Functions /? Anahit Minasyan 19.Language Beliefs and the Management of Endangered Languages /? Bernard Spolsky.maps, b&w photographs, tables, graphsendangered languages, language revival, education, language research -
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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 -
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Book, New South Wales Aboriginal place names and euphonious words, with their meanings, 1959
Includes map of NSW tribes, and numerical cross-referencing to those tribes if the language of the place name is known.Maps, word lists -
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 -
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Book, Barry J Blake, Kulin and its neighbours, 2013
... Language and Bunganditj. Maps, word lists, graphs linguistics ...Technical linguistic grammar of Kulin languages. Documents shared vocabulary and grammatical and phonetic correspondences between languages, including Mathi Group, Colac Language, Warrnambool Language and Bunganditj.Maps, word lists, graphslinguistics, language groups, dialects, kulin, mathi, bunganditj, colac, warrnambool -
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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 -
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Book, Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages et al, Yarnin up : Keerray Woorroong, 2014
Words and phrases in Keerray Woorroong.maps, word lists, colour illustrationskeerray woorroong, pronunciation, place names, kinship terms, feelings, body parts, country, animals, weather, counting -
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Book, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing them home : National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander children from their families, 1997
A tribute to the strengths and struggles of many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by forcible removal. It acknowledges the hardship they endured and the sacrifices they made. Dedicated to those who found the strength to tell their stories to the Inquiry and to the generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people separated from their families and communities. Includes stories and recommendations.maps, b&w photographs, tableschild protection, institutional care, australian aboriginal history, aboriginal children, social justice -
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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 -
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Book, Melway Publishing, Melway Greater Melbourne street directory : including Geelong, Phillip Island, Healesville, Kinglake, Gisborne, Lorne, Wallan, Bacchus Marsh, Bellarine &? Mornington Peninsulas, 2005
Street directory including the wider area surrounding Melbourne.mapsmaps, victorian street maps, street directories, road maps -
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Book, Victorian squatters, 1983
Detailed study of the white settlement of Victoria, with extensive maps and registers of early squatters. -
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Book, City of Whitehorse, City Of Whitehorse parks and reserves: names and origins, 1985
Spiral bound book released by City of Whitehorse council. Alphabetically listed placenames within the local government area, with Melway map points and brief historical references to those places.Black and white photographs, colour photographsplace names, city of whitehorse, box hill, mitcham, mont albert, blackburn, surrey hills, burwood, nunawading, forest hill -
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Book, Margaret G. Corrick et al, Wildflowers of Victoria and adjoining areas, 2000
Alphabetically listed, with detailed entries.Maps, colour photographs, glossarywildflowers, plants, victoria, mallee, grampians -
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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