Five notebooks relate to topics such as characteristics, folklore, working people, and two notebooks relate to conjunctions and interpretations. The collection of 18 diaries received in 2018, Series 2, consists of diaries from the Port Keats Mission, and covers life and events in …

This book is designed for those who would like to start learning or relearn Murrinh Patha, a language from Wadeye in the Northern Territory. It is accompanied by an audio CD of Murrinh Patha lessons.

Oct 25, 2024 · Recognising the cultural and linguistic diversity in Wadeye, Sr Tess not only translated and published books in Murrinhpatha but also in the languages of other clans living in Wadeye, including Marri Tjevin, Marri Amu, Marii Ngarr, Magati Ke, Jaminjung, and Marrithiyel.

Wadeye (/ ˈwɒdeɪə, ˈwɒdɛər / WOD-ay-ə, WOD-air[2]) is a town in Australia's Northern Territory (NT). It was formerly known (and is still often referred to) as Port Keats, a name originating from Port Keats Mission, which operated from 1935 (originally at a different location, known as Wertnek Nganayi) until 1978.

Nov 23, 2015 · An outback publishing house – a little room attached to a school in remote Wadeye – is producing books in local languages to improve literacy by teaching children to read in their original ...

His best-known book was tellingly titled White Man Got No Dreaming and it is with him that the cultural triumph of these people first found traction. The dead so soon grow cold.

Sep 22, 2009 · He was a long-serving member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC); he worked at Port Keats (Wadeye) between 1941 and 1943, and again from 1970 to 1975, at Nguiu (Bathurst Island) and Garden Point (Melville Island) (1944-60), …

My analysis of heavy metal in Wadeye focuses on social practices and the material objects that facilitate them. My primary aim is to examine the social contexts in which Wadeye youth listen to heavy metal, share and distribute metal, talk about metal, wear, dance, draw and …

Jan 1, 2013 · Wangga, originating in the Daly region of Australia's Top End, is one of the most prominent Indigenous genres of public dance-songs. This book focuses on the songmen who created and performed the songs for their own communities …

The role of the poet and collector of 'mythologies', Roland Robinson, in prompting the production of commercial bark-painting at Port Keats (Wadeye), appears to have been accepted uncritically - though not usually acknowledged - by collectors and curators.