Stories, songs and records: How to bring back a language
Some languages die, but some are merely sleeping – and when woken back up, they can thrive.
Source: cosmosmagazine.com
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Friday essay: 'but we already had a treaty' – Tom Griffiths on a little known 1889 peace accord
The Debney Peace, negotiated over a 5-day ceremony on Mithaka Country, is nationally significant to 21st century Australia.
Source: theconversation.com
A Very Human Survey: The Cross-Cultural Inquiries of R.H. Mathews
A lecture by Harold White Fellow, Martin Thomas, at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 24 October 2002 Let us enter the archive with words from Mathews himself. He is introducing what would be his longest paper, 183 pages in length. Dated 1904, it was called ‘Ethnological Notes on the Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales and Victoria’. This plain, descriptive title is characteristic of a man who was cautious of pomposity or embellishment. He presents himself in the following way:
Source: nla.gov.au