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Nyernila - Listen Continuously: Aboriginal Creation Stories of Victoria
... Boon Wurrung...Photograph: Boon Wurrung: The Filling of the Bay – The Time of Chaos...'...I leave the next legacy from the old unseen legacies of our Ancestors...'Carolyn BriggsBoon WurrungBoon Wurrung: The Journey of the Iilk - IilkyawaThe months of February and March were known to the Boon Wurrung as weegabilnye-weeny.During... Program Workers from Wathaurong, Taungerung,Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung language groups contributing stories, including language of their particular Country. In one instance, an entire story was told in Wathaurong language. In others select words were ...This story is based on the unique publication Nyernila – Listen Continuously: Aboriginal Creation Stories of Victoria.
The uniqueness is differentiated by two significant and distinguishing features. It is the first contemporary compilation of Victorian Aboriginal Creation Stories told by Victorian Aboriginal People, and it is the first to extensively use languages of origin to tell the stories.
‘Nyernila’ to listen continuously – a Wergaia/Wotjobaluk word recorded in the 20th century. To listen continuously. What is meant by this term. What meaning is being attempted to be communicated by the speaker to the recorder? What is implied in this term? What is the recorder trying to translate and communicate to the reader?
‘Nyernila’ means something along the lines of what is described in Miriam Rose Ungemerrs ‘dadirri’ – deep and respectful listening in quiet contemplation of Country and Old People. This is how our Old People, Elders and the Ancestors teach us and we invite the reader to take this with them as they journey into the spirit of Aboriginal Victoria through the reading of these stories.
Our stories are our Law. They are important learning and teaching for our People. They do not sit in isolation in a single telling. They are accompanied by song, dance and visual communications; in sand drawings, ceremonial objects and body adornment, rituals and performance. Our stories have come from ‘wanggatung waliyt’ – long, long ago – and remain ever-present through into the future.
You can browse the book online by clicking the items below, or you can download a PDF of the publication here.
nyernila
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ny like the ‘n’ in new
e like the ‘e’ in bed
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a special kind of ‘n’
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i like the ‘i’ in pig
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Postcards: Stories from the Mornington Peninsula
... food producing region. In pre-colonial times, Boon-wurrung people hunted and fished the area, collecting plant food, hunting for marsupials such as possum and kangaroo and drew fish and shellfish from the sea. From the earliest days of European ...Stories of a time in history when holidaying was a grand pastime, and when special and unique places in Victoria began to be appreciated, celebrated and shared in that iconic mode of communication: the picture postcard.
Inspired by postcards in their collections, eight historical societies developed themes to explore the history of the Mornington Peninsula.
This story is based on a touring exhibition which was initiated by the Mornington Peninsula Local History Network and the Mornington Peninsula Shire.
