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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Portraits from a land without people : a pictorial anthology of Indigenous Australia 1847-2008, 2008
A pictorial anthology of Indigenous Australia from 1847-2008. Published to coincide with the first anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generations, this title is a stunning and emotive record of the first Australians. All proceeds from the sale going to the Jimmy Little Foundation.b&w photographs, colour photographs -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, The ballad of Bungil Bottle : A.W. Howitt's exploration of the Mitchell River by canoe in 1875, 1989
maps, diagrams, b&w photographsa w howitt, mitchell river -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, The Booandik tribe of South Australian Aborigines : a sketch of their habits, customs, legends, and language : also an account of the efforts made by Mr. and Mrs. James Smith to Christianise and civilise them, 1880
Stories from the early days of South Australia from an adventurous woman, recounting her experiences with the local Aboriginal community. Much detail of early encounters with domestic animals and mission folk.Word lists, b&w illustrationsbooandik, boandik, buandig -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Australian Alps oral history project 1994 : Aboriginal histories : unpublished report for the Australian Alps Liaison Committee, 1994
Unpublished report for the Australian Alps Liaison Committee. A series of interviews with a variety of people.b&w photographs, document reproductionsoral histories -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, William Barak : bridge builder of the Kulin, 2006
Detailed information about William Barak: his art, humanity and personal history, spanning the years of White Settlement and the political involvement with Coranderrk.b&w photographs, colour photographswurundjeri, william barak, coranderrk, yarra yarra -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Conference proceedings, Learn in beauty : Indigenous education for a new century, 2000
Series of papers indicating some of the new directions that Indigenous education is taking at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The focus is on education for Native Americans.b&w illustrations, graphs, tablesbilingual education, indigenous language teaching, american indian education, navajo immersion project -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Conference proceedings, Creating outsiders : endangered languages, migration and marginalisation : proceedings of the ninth FEL Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa 18-20 November 2005, 2005
Outward Migration & Endangered Languages; Inward Migration & Endangered Languages; First Peoples; Policy, Power & Endangered Languages; States & Minorities; Migrations in History & Prehistorymaps, b&w photographs, tablesendangered languages, language revival, migration, linguistic diversity -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Conference proceedings, Language endangerment in the 21st century : globalisation, technology and new media : proceedings of the conference FEL XVI, 12-15 September 2012, AUT University, Auckland, Aotearoa/?New Zealand, 2012
Session 1: Technology and Cultural knowledge: Documentation, transmission and resource Session 2: Television and Endangered Languages Session 3: Technology: Archiving, Lexicography, Translation, Databases Session 4: Technology: Teaching and Learning endangered languages Session 5: Social media, press and endangered languages Session 6: Multiple perspectives on language endangerment in the 21st centuryMaps, b&w photographs, tablesendangered languages, language revival, globalisation, technology, barngarla, port lincoln -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Bunjil's cave : legends and superstitions of the Aborigines of South-East Australia, 1968
Stories from the Aboriginal people of South-East Australia. Includes Creation Stories, Myths and legends. Written in two sections, The myths and The Land Beyond the Sky. Includes location lists.Maps, b&w photographs, illustrationswotjobaluk, mara, kulin, kurnai, murray river, myths, legends, creation stories -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, 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
b&w illustrations, word listsedward m curr -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, 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
b&w illustrations, word listsedward m curr -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Searching for Aboriginal languages : memoirs of a field worker, 1984
"...this book provides a fascinating picture of life in northeast Queensland between 1963 and 1977. It also provides an insight into how linguists work, how they gather their information, and how they interpret it."b&w photographs, colour photographsqueensland, languages, linguists, linguistics, field work, biography, northeast queensland -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Australian Aboriginal words and place names and their meanings, 1985
Word list with definitions. (Appear to be different printings)B&w photographs, word lists -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Australian Aboriginal native words and their meanings, 1925
A short book of Aboriginal words with definitions intended as a source for naming places or properties. Aboriginal-English only and no indication of source languages.word lists, b&w photographslanguage glossaries -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Language in native title, 2002
Introduction /? John Henderson and David Nash Language and native title /? John Henderson Linguistic evidence and native title cases in Australia /? Peter Sutton Linguistic continuity in colonised country /? Jeanie Bell Country and the word: linguistic evidence in the Croker Sea claim /? Nicholas Evans Linguistics and the Yorta Yorta native title claim /? Heather Bowe The language of the Peak Hill Aboriginal people: a linguistic report in a native title claim /? Tamsin Donaldson Labels, language and native title groups: the Miriuwung-Gajerrong case /? Greg McIntyre and Kim Doohan Historical linguistic geography of south-east Western Australia /? David Nash Language ownership: a key issue for native title /? Michael Walsh Can lexicostatistics contribute an absolute time-scale to discussions of continuity of occupation in native title determinations? /? Barry Alpher Linguistic stratigraphy and native title: the case of ethnonyms /? Patrick McConvell Making your skin fit properly: displaced equivalence in 'skin' systems in the Barkly /? Gavan BreenMaps, tables, b&w diagramsyorta yorta, yoda yoda, yabala yabala, bangerang, shepparton, miriuwung, gajerrong, native title -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, The Aboriginal word book, 1982
Short book of words drawn from a variety of Aboriginal languages; state of origin of words is given.b&w illustrations, word listsdictionaries -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Documenting and revitalizing Austronesian Languages, 2007
Part 1: International capacity building initiatives, Part 2: Documentation and revitalization Activities, Part 3: Computational methods and tools for language documentation.Maps, b&w photographs, tableslanguage and elearning, endangered languages, austronesian languages -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Aboriginal words of Australia, 1994
Provides word list, no meanings and does not define which language it isWord lists, b&w illustrationslinguistics, language dictionaries -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Aboriginal words and place names, 1982
B&w illustrations, word listsplace names, word lists, linguistics -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Dialects of Western Kulin, Western Victoria : Yartwatjali, Tjapwurrung, Djadjawurrung, 2011
Technical linguistic grammar based on historical sources of Western Kulin languages Yartwatjali, Tjapwurrung and Djadjawurrung. Includes dictionary and information on historical source material.Maps, b&w illustration, tables,yartwatjali, tjapwurrung, djadjawurrung, western district, george augustus robinson, edward stone parker, william thomas, james dawson, edward curr, robert hamilton matthews -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, 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 LanguagesBook, Australian Aborigines : the languages and customs of several tribes of Aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia, 1881
A comprehensive vocabulary of Western District languages Djab Wurrung, Peek Woorong and Dhauwurd Wurrung. Includes a vocabulary of birds and reptiles, and relationship terms for each language.word lists, b&w photographswestern district, chaap wuurong, djab wurrung, peek whuurong, peek woorong, kuurn kopan noot, dhauwurd wurrung, birds, reptiles, relationship terms -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Samples of work created and used by Lynne Dent in the teaching of traditional language, 1997
b&w illustrations, word listsganai, gunai, language learning, curriculum development -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Boandik/Bunganditj language reclamation project, 2012
B&w illustrations, word listsbuandig, boandik, bunganditj, mount gambier, south australia -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Guide to writing languages of the Kimberley, 2000
Includes notes on pronunciation, South Kimberley orthography, and an inventary of orthographies. Has small black and white illustrations.Maps, b&w illustrations, tableskimberley, bardi, bunuba, gajirrawoong, gamberre, gooniyandi, gwini/kwini, jaru, juwaliny, karajarri, kija, kukatja, malngin, mangala, miriwoong, ngardi, ngarinyin, nyangumarta, nyikina, nyuinyul, walmajarri, wangkajunga, wanyjirra, warrwa, worla, worrorra, wunambal, yawuru, yulparlja -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Gumbaynggirr dictionary and learner's grammar =? Gumbaynggirr bijaarr jandaygam, ngaawa gugaarrigam, 2008
Maps, b&w illustrations, tablesgumbaynggirr, nambucca -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, A salvage grammar and wordlist of the language from the Hunter River and Lake Macquarie, 2006
B&w photographs, word listsawabakal, kuringgai, wonnarua, lake macquarie, hunter river -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Trekways of the wind, 2003
B&w illustrations, sheet musicsami -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Warlpiri-Kirli : an introductory course in Warlpiri for English speakers, 1992
An introductory course in Warlpiri for English speakers.B&w photographs, word listswarlpiri, yuendumu -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for LanguagesBook, Zenadth Kes : I, Torres Strait Islander : papers from the TorreTorres Strait Islander Free Thinking Symposium s Strait Islander Free Thinking Symposium held on Thursday Island, 2008, 2008
b&w photographs, colour photographstorres strait islands, congresses
