Includes Indigenous and European place names, gives their origins.maps, b&w photographs

Dictionary including Indigenous and European place names. Origins are given.maps, b&w photographsdaung wurrung, woiwurrung, dja dja wurrung, wathawurrung, wadawurrung, boon wurrung, jardwadjali, melbourne, yarra, baw baw, central goldfields, bass coast, greater geelong, south gippsland, surf coast, yarra ranges, golden plains, mornington peninsula, yarra ranges, ballarat, frankston, greater dandenong, queenscliffe, moorabool, boroondara

Dictionary including Indigenous and European place names. Origins are given.maps, b&w photographsgrampians, hindmarsh, horsham, ararat, gannawarra, mildura, swan hill, glenelg, djabwurrung, djadjawurrung, jardwadjali, dadidadi, wergaia, wembawemba, barababaraba, wadi wadi, wathawurrung, ladji ladji

Dictionary including Indigenous and European place names. Origins are given.maps, b&w photographsdhauwurd wurrung, giraiwurrung, djargurd wurrung, gadubanud, buandig, gulidjan, moyne, corangamite, colac-otway, wimmera, glenelg, warrnambool

"Aboriginal approaches to the naming of places across Australia differ radically from the official introduced Anglo-Australian system. However, many of these earlier names have been incorporated into contemporary nomenclature, with considerable reinterpretations of their function and form. Recently, state jurisdictions have encouraged the adoption of a greater number of Indigenous names, sometimes alongside the accepted Anglo-Australian terms, around Sydney Harbour, for example. In some cases, the use of an introduced name, such as Gove, has been contested by local Indigenous people." "The 19 studies brought together in this book present an overview of current issues involving Indigenous placenames across the whole of Australia, drawing on the disciplines of geography, linguistics, history, and anthropology. They include meticulous studies of historical records, and perspectives stemming from contemporary Indigenous communities. The book includes a wealth of documentary information on some 400 specific placenames, including those of Sydney Harbour, the Blue Mountains, Canberra, western Victoria, the Lake Eyre district, the Victoria River District, and southwestern Cape York Peninsula." -- Publisher description. Contents: Introduction: Old and new aspects of Indigenous place-naming /? Harold Koch and Luise Hercus NSW &? ACT: 1. Aboriginal placenames around Port Jackson and Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia: sources and uncertainties /? Val Attenbrow 2. Reinstating Aboriginal placenames around Port Jackson and Botany Bay /? Jakelin Troy and Michael Walsh 3. The recognition of Aboriginal placenames in New South Wales /? Greg Windsor 4. New insights into Gundungurra place naming /? Jim Smith 5. The methodology of reconstructing Indigenous placenames: Australian Capital Territory and south-eastern New South Wales /? Harold Koch Victoria: 6. Toponymic books and the representation of Indigenous identities /? Laura Kostanski 7. Reviving old Indigenous names for new purposes /? Laura Kostanski and Ian D. Clark 8. Reconstruction of Aboriginal microtoponymy in western and central Victoria: case studies from Tower Hill, the Hopkins River, and Lake Boga /? Ian Clark South Australia &? Central Australia: 'Aboriginal names of places in southern South Australia': placenames in the Norman B.Tindale collection of papers /? Paul Monaghan 10. Why Mulligan is not just another Irish name: Lake Callabonna, South Australia /? J.C. McEntee 11. Murkarra, a landscape nearly forgotten: the Arabana country of the noxious insects, north and northwest of Lake Eyre /? Luise Hercus 12. Some area names in the far north-east of South Australia /? Luise Hercus 13. Placenames of central Australia: European records and recent experience /? Richard Kimber Northern Australia: 14. Naming Bardi places /? Claire Bowern 15. Dog-people: the meaning of a north Kimberley story /? Mark Clendon 16. 'Where the spear sticks up': the variety of locatives in placenames in the Victoria River District, Northern Territory /? Patrick McConvell 17. 'This place already has a name' /? Melanie Wilkinson, Dr R. Marika and Nancy M. Williams 18. Manankurra: what's in a name? placenames and emotional geographies /? John J. Bradley and Amanda Kearney 19. Kurtjar placenames /? Paul Black.Maps, b&w photographs, tables, word listsaustralian placenames, sociolinguistics, linguistics, anthropology, sydney harbour placenames, blue mountains placenames, canberra placenames, western victoria placenames, lake eyre placenames, victoria river district placenames, cape york peninsula placenames

Depicts events and attitudes, primarily of students as they go through their adolescent years in the late 1960's. The word Kurnaji is thought to have been derived from the indigenous Aboriginal language with the meaning "Windy Hill" - refer 1971 Kurnaji Editorial page.Annual record of teaching staff, students and events that took place over the year by using both photos and reports. Includes Roll Call section with names of all students.Note: This was the 1st Year of Kurnaji's publication, the last being in 1989 (see Record Item 274).52 Pages, Blue cover, Title "Kurnaji" in Red ink. Cover drawing of students. Headmaster / Principal - Mr. C.K. (Ken) Canty. 2 copies.watsonia high school, yearbook, kurnaji, school magazines

Place names often evoke important information about features of the environment and their place in Indigenous knowledge. On the other hand, place names given by European settlers are largely arbitrary.Maps, b&w photographs, b&w illustrations, word listsplace names, wik, cape york peninsula, ngalakgan, alawa, marra, yukgul, kaurna, yuwaalaraay, yuwaaliyaay, gamilaraay, ngiyampaa

non-fictionThe Murray River is a vital waterway forming most of the border between Victoria and New South Wales, extending for 2671 kilometres. It played a pivotal role in the life of indigenous peoples of the region and continues to have a vital role in the life of all communities along its banks. This book outlines its historical importance as well as its role in agriculture and tourism. It key places and shows the many ways in which the great Murray River contributes to the heritage of Australiamurray river, murray river names, murray river discovery and exploration, australia - tourism

Jenna Lee dissects and reconstructs colonial 'Indigenous dictionaries' and embeds the works with new cultural meaning. Long obsessed with the duality of the destructive and healing properties that fire can yield, this element has been applied to the paper in the forms of burning and mark-making. In Without Us, Lee uses charcoal to conceal the text on the page, viewing this process as a ritualistic act of reclaiming and honouring Indigenous heritage while challenging the oppressive legacies of colonialism. Lee explains in Art Guide (2022), ‘These books in particular [used to create the proposed works] are Aboriginal language dictionaries—but there’s no such thing as “Aboriginal language”. There are hundreds of languages. The dictionary just presents words, with no reference to where they came from. It was specifically published by collating compendiums from the 1920s, 30s and 40s, with the purpose to give [non-Indigenous] people pleasant sounding Aboriginal words to name children, houses and boats. And yet the first things that were taken from us was our language, children, land and water. And the reason our words were so widely written down was because [white Australians] were trying to eradicate us. They thought we were going extinct. The deeper you get into it, the darker it gets. But the purpose of my work is to take those horrible things and cast them as something beautiful.’Framed artwork