Languages & Creative Arts

This webpage is intended to be a starting point for finding resources relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples history, culture and knowledge, with a focus on languages and creative arts.

Kaurna Language

Traditional Kaurna Greetings

Kaurna Language Hub
Learn more Kaurna Language with this Youtube channel. Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi is a group of Kaurna people, teachers, linguists and language enthusiasts who are engaged in the reclamation and teaching of the Kaurna language of the Adelaide plains.

The terminology, representations and protocols provided in this document have been endorsed by Flinders University. It has been adapted from ‘Using the right words: appropriate terminology for Indigenous Australia studies’ 1996 in Teaching the Teachers: Indigenous Australian Studies for Primary Pre-Service Teacher Education, School of Education, University of New South Wales in association with the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.

Websites

Garden Musings
Poem by Natalie Harkin, a Narungga woman and activist-poet from South Australia.

Unbound Collective
The Unbound Collective brings together years of research in a performance that moves through spaces that have historically seen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians excluded and reduced to tell untold chapters of Australia’s true history.