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Walmadjari
The Walmadjari (Walmajarri) people, also known as Tjiwaling and Wanaseka, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Name The two names reflect different Walmadjari preferences. Their western bands accept Tjiwaling as an ethnonym, as it is a designation peoples neighbouring them further west employ. The eastern bands prefer the Walmadjari autonym, or conversely, define themselves as the ''Wanaseka'', as opposed to the ''Tjiwaling'', side. Language Walmadjari belongs to the Ngumpin–Yapa branch of the Pama-Nyungan language family. Country Norman Tindale's estimation assigned the Walmadjari roughly of territory on the desert plateau south of the Fitzroy and Christmas Creek valleys and from Kunkadea (Noonkanbah), as far east as the Cummins Range. Their southern limits ran along the Canning Stock Route to ''Kardalapuru'' (Well 47). Sometime in the latter half of the 19th century, a group of Walmadjari, who are called ''Ngainan'', took o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walmajarri Language
Walmajarri (many other names; see below) is a Pama–Nyungan language spoken in the Kimberley region of Western Australia by the Walmadjari and related peoples. Walmajarri is declared a definitely endangered language by UNESCO based on their scale of Language Vitality and Endangerment. Names Names for this language break down along the three dialects: *Walmajarri, Walmatjarri, Walmatjari, Walmadjari, Walmatjiri, Walmajiri, Walmatjeri, Walmadjeri, Walmadyeri, Walmaharri, Wolmeri, Wolmera, Wulmari *Bililuna, Pililuna *Jiwarliny, Juwaliny, Tjiwaling, Tjiwarlin Speakers Communities with a Walmajarri population are: * Bayulu * Djugerari ( Cherrabun) * Junjuwa ( Fitzroy Crossing) * Looma * Kadjina (Millijidee) * Mindibungu ( Bililuna) * Mindi Rardi ( Fitzroy Crossing) * Mulan * Ngumpan * Wangkajungka ( Christmas Creek) * Yakanarra * Yungngora The Walmajarri people used to live in the Great Sandy Desert. The effects of colonialism took them to the cattle stations, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gooniyandi
The Gooniyandi, also known as the Konejandi, are an Aboriginal Australian people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Language Gooniyandi, with Bunuba, is one of the two languages of the Bunuban language family. Country Gooniyandi traditional land stretched over some from Fitzroy Crossing in the west to Margaret River Stations 150 miles to the east. Their heartland lay north around the limestone enclaves of the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges and around Stony River. Norman Tindale states that their territory encompassed also Bohemia Down, the Ramsay, Sandstone, Mueller, Burramundy, and Geikie Ranges. According to their tradition, they also had a native purchase on the plains on the northern side of Christmas Creek before the advent of whites, but had lost this area to the Walmadjari. Social organization Gooniyandi society is divided into 8 subsections (''gooroo''), each divided into male and female classes. * (M) ''jawalyi'' A1 = B1 ''jagadda'' :(F) ''nyawajaddi'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitch Torres
Michelle "Mitch" Rose Torres (born 1964), also credited as Michelle Torres-Hill, is an Australian actress, director, journalist, playwright, producer, radio presenter, and writer. She began as an actress, playing the main role in the 1986 film ''BabaKiueria''. She then worked as a journalist, becoming the first Indigenous Australian on-air presenter for SBS Television, and worked at ABC Television. She then worked for Indigenous radio stations as a broadcaster, producer, and presenter. She moved into filmmaking in the mid-1990s, with her first short film ''Promise'' for SBS-TV. Among her works include the documentary '' Jandamarra's War'' and the play '' Muttacar Sorry Business''. Torres has received an AWGIE Award, Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, Human Rights Award, and Australian Teachers of Media Awards for her work on '' The Circuit'' and ''Jandamarra's War''. In 2021, she was awarded an honorary degree from the Australian Film, Television and Radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ningali Lawford
Ningali Josie Lawford (1967 – 11 August 2019), also known as Ningali Lawford-Wolf and Josie Ningali Lawford, was an Aboriginal Australian actress known for her roles in the films '' Rabbit-Proof Fence'' (2002), ''Bran Nue Dae'' (2009), and '' Last Cab to Darwin'' (2015), for which she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Early life and education Ningali Josie Lawford was born in 1967 on Christmas Creek Station, a cattle station in Wangkatjungka, near Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia, where her father, a stockman, and mother, a domestic, worked. She was a member of the Walmadjari (Tjiwaling) people, and of the Wangkatjunga language group. After attending Kewdale Senior High School in Perth, she spent a year in Anchorage, Alaska, on an American Field Scholarship. Lawford trained in dance at the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre (AIDT) in Sydney. Career After leaving AIDT, Lawford started to dance at Bangarra Dance Theatre. She lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian English
Australian English (AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to Australia. It is the country's common language and ''de facto'' national language. While Australia has no official language, English is the first language of Languages of Australia, the majority of the population, and has been entrenched as the ''de facto'' national language since the onset of History of Australia (1788–1850), British settlement, being the only language spoken in the home for 72% of Australians in 2021. It is also the main language used in compulsory education, as well as federal, state and territorial legislatures and courts. Australian English began to diverge from British English, British and Hiberno-English after the First Fleet established the Colony of New South Wales in 1788. Australian English arose from a Koiné language, dialectal melting pot created by the intermingling of early settlers who were from a variety of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Conservation And Land Management (Western Australia)
The Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) was a department of the Government of Western Australia that was responsible for implementing the state's conservation and environment legislation and regulations. It was created by the ''Conservation and Land Management Act 1984'', also known as the ''CALM Act'', which is still in force . The Department of Conservation and Land Management was responsible from 22 March 1985 to 30 June 2006 for protecting and conserving the State of Western Australia’s environment; this included managing the state's national parks, marine parks, conservation parks, state forests, timber reserves and nature reserves. The Conservation Commission of Western Australia, responsible for assessing and auditing the performance of the department, was also created by the ''CALM Act''. Now ( renamed the Conservation and Parks Commission), its functions have broadened, with its purpose stated as "to act as an independent and trusted community stew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and institutes. Established in 1946, ANU is the only university to have been created by the Parliament of Australia. It traces its origins to Canberra University College, which was established in 1929 and was integrated into ANU in 1960. ANU enrols 13,329 undergraduate and 11,021 postgraduate students and employs 4,517 staff. The university's endowment stood at A$1.8 billion as of 2018. ANU counts six List of Nobel laureates, Nobel laureates and 49 Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes scholars among its List of Australian National University people, faculty and alumni. The university has educated the incumbent Governor-Gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Aboriginal Affairs (Western Australia)
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs (Western Australia) is the former government authority that was involved with the matters of the Aboriginal population of Western Australia between 2013 and 2017. Aborigines Protection Board Prior to the creation of the Aborigines Department in 1898, there had been an Aborigines Protection Board, which operated between 1 January 1886 and 1 April 1898 as a Statutory authority. It was created by the ''Aborigines Protection Act 1886'' (WA), also known as the ''Half-caste act'', ''An Act to provide for the better protection and management of the Aboriginal natives of Western Australia, and to amend the law relating to certain contracts with such Aboriginal natives'' (statute 25/1886); ''An Act to provide certain matters connected with the Aborigines'' (statute 24/1889). The Board was replaced in 1898 by the Aborigines Department. Current status The department took its current name in May 2013. On 28 April 2017 Premier Mark McGowan announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AIATSIS
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), established as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1964, is an independent Australian Government statutory authority. It is a collecting, publishing, and research institute and is considered to be Australia's premier resource for information about the cultures and societies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The institute is a leader in ethical research and the handling of culturally sensitive material. The collection at AIATSIS has been built through over 50 years of research and engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and is now a source of language and culture revitalisation, native title research, and Indigenous family and community history. AIATSIS is located on Acton Peninsula in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. History The proposal and interim council (1959–1964) In the late 1950s, there was an increasing focus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kankawa Nagarra
Kankawa Nagarra (born circa 1943), (also known as Olive Knight) is an Aboriginal Australian blues and gospel singer-songwriter and author. She sings in Walmajarri, Kimberley Creole and English. Her 2024 album ''Wirlmarni'' won the Australian Music Prize. Early life Nagarra was born circa 1943 in Kimberley (Western Australia) She is a Gooniyandi and Walmatjarri elder. At the age of 8, Nagarra was taken from her parents and sent to a mission in the Wangkatjungka Community. She one of the Stolen Generations. Nagarra discovered gospel, country, rock and blues music whilst working on homesteads via the radio. Nagarra learned to play a cousin's guitar when she was in her 20s. She said, "At the time, there was a cultural thing, women weren't allowed to touch anything made of wood, we were forbidden to even go near the guitar, because it was a men's wooden instrument." Nagarra bought her first guitar at age 40. Performing career In March 2011, Knight released ''Gospel Blues at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Pike
Jimmy Pike (1940 – 3 November 2002) was a Walmatjarri Aboriginal artist. Early life Jimmy Pike was born around 1940 east of Japingka, an important ''jila'' or permanent waterhole in the Great Sandy Desert, and grew up as a hunter-gatherer. Like many of his people he drifted north toward the river valleys and the sheep and cattle stations where food was more plentiful. Living as a fringe-dweller around Cherrabun Station, he eventually joined relatives at the station camp and worked as a stockman. He was named Jimmy Pike, after Phar Lap's jockey, by a cattle station manager. Career Pike learned to use western art materials while in Fremantle Prison. Even before he was released from prison his work was exhibited in major Australian galleries. In 1989 Pike featured in a documentary ''The Quest of Jimmy Pike''. He illustrated a book ''Jimmy and Pat meet the Queen'' with his wife Pat Lowe. Pike has collaborated on a number of other books with his wife. He held exhibitions i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
