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Journal articles on the topic "Aboriginal oral tradition"

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Kerkhove, Ray. "Reconstructing the Battle of ’Narawai (Moongalba)." Queensland Review 26, no. 01 (June 2019): 3–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.4.

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AbstractThe Battle of ’Narawai on North Stradbroke Island, and skirmishes that culminated in this event (c. 1827–32) have been sidelined in recent decades, based on the assumption that the event was more likely a massacre, and that sources are too conflicted to build a workable narrative. Here we utilise known and unexamined sources, and the untapped oral tradition and environmental knowledge of Stradbroke Island Aboriginal peoples, to reconstruct both the build-up and phases of the confrontation. We find that our primary sources for this incident ultimately derive from Aboriginal informants; together with current Aboriginal perspectives, these allow a more nuanced and Aboriginal-driven narrative than is normally possible for a frontier wars skirmish. It is argued that the Battle of ’Narawai was not a one-sided massacre but rather a well-planned operation by Aboriginal combatants, orchestrated to provide tactical advantages. We contend that the battle merged tactics of traditional pullen-pullen (inter-tribal tournaments) with strategies more suited to the demands of the frontier wars, and that it was perceived as a victory by Aboriginal Stradbroke Islanders.

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Hamacher, Duane W., and Ray P. Norris. "‘Bridging the gap’ through Australian cultural astronomy." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 7, S278 (January 2011): 282–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921311012713.

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AbstractFor more than 50,000 years, Indigenous Australians have incorporated celestial events into their oral traditions and used the motions of celestial bodies for navigation, time-keeping, food economics, and social structure. In this paper, we explore the ways in which Aboriginal people made careful observations of the sky, measurements of celestial bodies, and incorporated astronomical events into complex oral traditions by searching for written records of time-keeping using celestial bodies, the use of rising and setting stars as indicators of special events, recorded observations of variable stars, the solar cycle, and lunar phases (including ocean tides and eclipses) in oral tradition, as well as astronomical measurements of the equinox, solstice, and cardinal points.

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Chisholm, Dianne. "The enduring afterlife of Before Tomorrow: Inuit survivance and the spectral cinema of Arnait Video Productions." Essai hors thème 40, no. 1 (June 14, 2017): 211–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1040152ar.

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This essay investigates how the filmmakers of Igloolik-based women’s collective Arnait Video Productions invent and combine various techniques and strategies of spectrality and survivance to create a powerful, cinematic form of Inuit cultural resistance and resilience. I borrow the concept of “survivance” from Anishnaabe literary theorist Gerald Vizenor who uses it to explain how Aboriginal literary and linguistic traditions continue to flourish in contemporary media despite and in response to colonialism’s systemic suppression of oral traditions. With this concept I analyze the way Arnait’s films re-enact and revive Inuit culture and oral tradition in the abiding voice and spirit of the dead whose creative art of living resists extinction. Arnait has to date produced three feature films: two fictional films Before Tomorrow (2009) and Uvanga (2013), and a documentary Sol (2014). I demonstrate that all three films exhibit this uncanny mix of spectrality and survivance with focus on Arnait’s debut film as a case study.

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Freedman, Linda. "Living Aboriginal History of Victoria: stories in the oral tradition by Alick Jackomos & Derek Fowell Melbourne: Cambridge University Press 1991." Children Australia 18, no. 2 (1993): 31–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200006349.

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Shafiq, Qasim, Shaheena Ayub Bhatti, and Ghulam Murtaza. "Re-reading Silko’s Ceremonies and American History." Global Regional Review IV, no. I (March 31, 2019): 104–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(iv-i).12.

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This article retrieves the history of Native American ceremonies to highlight the aboriginal ways of being. Using Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony to retrieve the reality of the ceremonies, I argue how the myths inscribed in Native American contemporary writings are the social and cultural embedment of the ceremonies in which they were written and thus the knowledge of prehistoric times. I focus on Silko’s modern techniques to revive the myths of oral tradition to understand and publicize the truths of Native American ceremonial world. She explains the ceremony of 1955 with reference to the ceremonies incorporated in Laguna myths, thereby juxtaposing two different time periods: the pre-Columbian timelessness and the post-second World War fragmented tribal community in Laguna in 1955. To understand the overlapping of poetic-prose stories I explain the function of ceremony in the prosperity of the Pueblo and assimilate the present in the past and the future.

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Wilkie, Benjamin. "Volcanism in Aboriginal Australian oral traditions." Geology Today 36, no. 5 (September 2020): 183–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gto.12324.

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Morris, Christine. "Oral Traditions Under Threat: The Australian Aboriginal Experience." Explorations in Ethnic Studies 14, no. 2 (July 1, 1991): 33–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ees.1991.14.2.33.

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Zapotichna, Maria. "Traditional Education of Aboriginal People in Canada: Principles, Methods and Characteristic Features." Comparative Professional Pedagogy 5, no. 4 (December 1, 2015): 98–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rpp-2015-0073.

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Abstract In the article the period of traditional education of aboriginal people in Canada in precolonial times has been presented. The main objectives have been defined as theoretical analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature, which highlights different aspects of the problem under research; characteristic of theoretical framework in understanding the concept of traditional aboriginal pedagogy and main principles underlying the education of younger generations of the indigenous people in Canada. The major components of teaching methods (practical, visual and oral) have been specified. Practical, visual and oral methods of imparting knowledge have been discussed and peculiarities of the traditional education of native population in Canada in precolonial period have been identified. The problem of traditional education of aboriginal people in Canada has been studied by scientists: aboriginal education (M. Battiste, J. Henderson, J. Lambe); development of aboriginal education (J. Friesen, V. Friesen, J. Miller, E. Neegan); tertiary education of aboriginal people (V. Kirkness); traditional education of aboriginal people (L. McGregor). The research methodology comprises theoretical methods (comparative-historical method; logical and comparative methods; methods of induction and deduction, synthesis and analysis).

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Mason, Ronald J. "Archaeology and Native North American Oral Traditions." American Antiquity 65, no. 2 (April 2000): 239–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2694058.

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AbstractArchaeologists today are being urged from within and outside their profession to incorporate aboriginal oral traditions in reconstructing culture histories. Such challenges usually ignore or at least drastically underestimate the difficulties in doing so. Not least among those difficulties is that of attempting to reconcile inherently and profoundly different ways of conceptualizing the past without violating the integrity of one or the other or both. The pro and con arguments are examined theoretically and as actually employed in discrete instances. These raise such problems of incommensurability as to severely limit the fruitfulness and even desirability of making the attempt.

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Nakata, Martin. "Placing Torres Strait Islanders on a Sociolinguistic and Literate Continuum: A Critical Commentary." Aboriginal Child at School 19, no. 3 (July 1991): 39–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0310582200007483.

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Much of the literature on Torres Strait Islander, as well of Aboriginal, education begins from the assumption that oral traditions and cultures have a profound effect on educational achievement. But how easy is it to plot Islanders on an oral/literate continuum (cf. Goody, 1978)? The purpose of this paper is a critical examination of a sociolinguistic model designed to describe Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal peoples in terms of oracy and literacy by Watson (1988). As part of her attempt to explain mathematics education as it relates to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, her continua attempt at an analysis via a theoretical framework built on socio-demographic and linguistic differences between orate and literate traditions. Watson (1988, p.257) suggest that, “...there exists the same type of continuum linking use of Torres Strait Islander languages and English.”

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Simpkins, Maureen Ann. "After Delgamuukw, aboriginal oral tradition as evidence in aboriginal rights and title litigation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ49813.pdf.

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Scott, Patrick. "Talking tools : faces of Aboriginal oral tradition in contemporary society (a practice-led exploration)." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.510619.

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Tunbridge, Dorothy, and n/a. "Mammals of the dreaming : an historical ethnomammalogy of the Flinders Ranges." University of Canberra. Resource, Environmental & Heritage Sciences, 1996. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061113.161511.

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This work is a linguistically based historical ethnography of the mammal species of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, from pre-European times to the present day. The research was motivated by linguistic evidence in the Adnyamathanha people's language, Yura Ngawarla, for the recent existence of a number of mammals in the Flinders Ranges region. The work aims firstly to identify each species represented by those language terms and to discover the identity of other species also present in the past 200 years. Secondly, it aims to present an exhaustive ethnography of mammals for that region. This work is essentially cross-disciplinary, with research extending into the often overlapping fields of linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, applied science, historical zoology and history. Comparative linguistics, oral tradition, historical records, scientific data and sub-fossil material are used to identify the species present at European occupation and their role in traditional Aboriginal life, and in passing, to establish the former existence and distribution of those species throughout the region of the two South Australian gulfs. An inventory of extant and extinct Flinders Ranges species is established. Linguistic, ethnographic, zoological and historical data are used to estimate when species extinction occurred, and what may (or may not) have been the main factors involved. A significant outcome of this work is the documentation of a part of Aboriginal knowledge which itself was on the verge of extinction, and the affirmation of well attested Aboriginal oral tradition as an authentic 'authoritative source'. Conclusion: Prior to European occupation the Flinders Ranges had a rich mammalian fauna comprising around 60 native species. These played a significant part in Aboriginal people's diet, manufacturing industry and cultural and spiritual life. By the end of the first half century of European occupation or soon after around two thirds of the terrestrial species had vanished. The effect of these events on Aboriginal people's ability to survive in their own territory was devastating and irreversible.

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Edwards, Mark Macdougall. "Improving education through dialogue and oral tradition : bridging colonization and cultural difference between Okanagan students, parents, community and non-Aboriginal school leaders." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30861.

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This study is a response to the inadequacy of education processes and outcomes for Aboriginal students, and particularly Okanagan students. It builds on the premise that the failure of mainstream Canadian schools to meet the educational needs of Okanagan students is a consequence of the distance between schools and community created by colonization and cultural difference. This study proposed to find ways to bridge this distance. It takes its initial insight from a process in which Okanagan students, families, and Elders successfully connected with non-Aboriginal educators. From this process emerged the recognition of the importance of understanding, relationships, and communication processes for bridging distance. This historic process further induced the development of a theory based upon conceptions of dialogue—Gadamer (2002), Buber (1970), and Freire (2000)—and Aboriginal oral traditions—as theorized by Archibald (1997), Sterling (1997), Lightning (1992), Armstrong (1996), and Hart (1997). The study's purposes were two-fold: use a dialogic process to determine how to improve understanding, relationship, and communication between Okanagan students, families, community and non-Aboriginal school leaders; and enact and test the induced theory by implementing it as research method. Thirty-five volunteers, including Okanagan students, parents, educators, Aboriginal educators, and non-Aboriginal educators, participated in two interview-conversations followed by conversations for feedback on representations of their meanings in subsequent study drafts. The study enabled remarkable conversations and a concomitant growth of understanding and relationships. The enacted theory worked, and was augmented by significant discoveries regarding shared emancipatory purpose and participant agency resulting in the revised PURC-A framework. Participants' perspectives on improving understanding, relationships, and communication processes included deeper understanding of Okanagan culture, history, and tradition, greater knowledge of the situations of Okanagan students and families, and commitment to the self-work necessary to become aware of the prejudices that constitute one's consciousness. Respect and trust were found essential. Many suggestions for improving the education of Okanagan students emerged. With courage, sincerity, and passion, participants in this study make public silenced criticisms, perspectives, and dreams. Their voices—this study—constitute a provocative and generative moment in the on-going transformative conversation that will improve education for Okanagan students.
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Bresson, Marie. "Documenting aboriginal "orality" : a challenge for australian archive services." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040168.

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Recueillir les souvenirs d’Aborigènes ayant vécu des évènements passés, provoquer des récits ou chansons, écouter et enregistrer l’explication de savoirs transmis oralement de génération en génération et constituer ainsi un patrimoine oral enregistré : tel est l’un des objectifs actuel des services d’archives australiens. Des services d’archives spécialement créés entreprennent donc, en collaboration avec les historiens et les chercheurs, des actions d’identification, de préservation et de mise en valeur du patrimoine immatériel aborigène. La collecte de ce atrimoine, unique et unificateur, s’inscrit dans un courant de quête identitaire et de reconquête de l’histoire et du passé. La création d’une identité australienne et le développement de l'Aboriginalité, et au-delà la question de la Réconciliation, passe par la réintégration et la 're-connaissance', dans l’histoire de l’Australie, de la culture aborigène qui, auparavant, était considérée comme inexistante. La constitution d’archives orales permettra de connaître une communauté aborigène de son propre point de vue, tant sur son passé que sur son présent. Comme la constitution de ces archives est une entreprise nouvelle, il s’agira dans ce travail de voir comment sont définies les archives orales en Australie, de voir leurs spécificités au regard du peuple aborigène, ainsi que les conséquences que leur création a sur l'histoire aborigène et australienne
Collecting testimonies from Indigenous peoples on events of the past, gathering tales or songs; recording traditional knowledge orally transmitted from generation to generation; and creating a recorded oral heritage is one of the main objectives and missions of specially created archive services in Australia. With the co-operation of historians and researchers, these archives are identifying, preserving, managing and developing an Indigenous oral heritage. This collection of a unique and unifying heritage is aimed at providing answers in an identity quest and the reevaluation of the national historical past. The creation of an Australian identity and the development of Aboriginality; within the framework of 'Reconciliation', must recognize Indigenous cultures which were for long considered as nonexistent in Australia's History. The creation of oral archives brings evidence of a developing Indigenous community, from its own point of view, both reflecting on its past and its present. The creation of such archives being a new and developing enterprise, the present research focuses on a definition of oral archives in Australia, analyzes their specificities as regards Indigenous peoples, and concludes on the consequences of that development

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Wang, Yu Hsin, and n/a. "Learning from the past, providing for our future : an exploration of traditional Paiwanese craft as inspiration for contemporary ceramics." Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20070205.101252.

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This project started with the Taiwanese�s Cultural & Creative Industries Policy, which demands that all new products include local cultural content. However, little is known about Taiwanese cultures. This research looked specifically at one of the cultures, the Paiwanese Tribe. This thesis reports on the research journey; identifying what the Paiwanese knew about their culture and why they were unable to produce traditional products. It argues that the displacement of the tribe has made it materially impossible to continue traditional practices. This research then identified ways of capturing spirit of traditional culture using modern technology. A successful model of working with crafts people workshops in discussed. A case is made for the use of narrative enquiry and oral history to record Paiwanese understanding. These understandings were translated into a design outcome using a design method called narrative design. The success of this research suggests that such an approach is one model that can be used in design using new technologies and materials from the re-establishment method of traditional products. The understanding generated for regaining traditional craft knowledge is extended with the design of a tea set that draws on this traditional knowledge, narrative and culture. The tea set represents this knowledge for a global market. It is argued that the design process used can guide design that transforms the culture message and delivers it for a wide audience. This design concept process is a model that can be used to develop cultural products.

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Brunette, Candace. "Returning Home Through Stories: A Decolonizing Approach to Omushkego Cree Theatre through the Methodological Practices of Native Performance Culture (NPC)." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24224.

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This research examines Native Performance Culture (NPC), a unique practice in Native theatre that returns Aboriginal people to the sources of Aboriginal knowledge, and interrupts the colonial fragmenting processes. By looking at the experiences of six collaborators involved in a specific art project, the artist-researcher shares her journey of healing through the arts, while interweaving the voices of artistic collaborators Monique Mojica, Floyd Favel, and Erika Iserhoff. This study takes a decolonizing framework, and places NPC as a form of Indigenous research while illuminating the methodological discourses of NPC, which are rooted in an inter-dialogue between self-in-relation to family, community, land, and embodied legacies. Finally, this research looks at the ways that artists work with Aboriginal communities and with Aboriginal knowledge, and makes recommendations to improve collaborative approaches.

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Books on the topic "Aboriginal oral tradition"

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Jackomos, Alick. Living aboriginal history of Victoria: Stories in the oral tradition. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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Miller, Bruce Granville. Oral history on trial: Recognizing aboriginal narratives in the courts. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2011.

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Rintoul, Stuart. The wailing: A national black oral history. Port Melbourne, Vic: W. Heinemann Australia, 1993.

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Narrative as social practice: Anglo-Western and Australian Aboriginal oral traditions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.

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Miller, Bruce Granville. Oral history on trial: Recognizing aboriginal narratives in the courts. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2011.

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McCall, Sophie. First person plural: Aboriginal storytelling and the ethics of collaborative authorship. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.

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Historical representation and the postcolonial imaginary: Constructing travellers and aborigines. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

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Conference on Editorial Problems (32nd 1996 University of Toronto). Talking on the page: Editing aboriginal oral texts : papers given at the Thirty-second Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 14-16 November 1996. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

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Henderson, James Youngblood. First Nations jurisprudence and Aboriginal rights: Defining the just society. Saskatoon: Native Law Centre, University of Saskatchewan, 2006.

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Black Australian literature: A bibliography of fiction, poetry, drama, oral traditions and non-fiction, including critical commentary, 1900-1991. Bern: P. Lang, 1997.

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Book chapters on the topic "Aboriginal oral tradition"

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"Paul Williams, Oral Tradition on Trial." In Gin Das Winan: Documenting Aboriginal History in Ontario. A Symposium at Bkejwanong, Walpole Island First Nation, 29–34. Toronto: Champlain Society, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442618794_5.

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Althans, Katrin. "Aboriginal Gothic." In Twenty-First-Century Gothic, 276–88. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474440929.003.0020.

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This chapter shows how, by combining European Gothic traditions and elements of Indigenous belief systems, Australian Aboriginal artists reclaim their own cultural heritage and reject the coloniser’s construction of Aboriginal people as the demonised Other. Aboriginal Gothic texts such as Her Sister’s Eye (2002) and ‘The Little Red Man’ (2011) defy their European predecessors’ traditional and stereotypical cast as well as their commodification of Indigenous culture, thus creating a counter-discourse to the master-discourse of European Gothic. This challenge, however, takes place within the plots and in the mode of transmission itself. Therefore, Aboriginal Gothic in the twenty-first century is not limited to the written word, but includes other forms like films, such as Karroyul (2015), and interactive media, such as Warwick Thorton’sThe Otherside Project (2014). In this way, the Gothic’s shape as a literary mode, as opposed to Indigenous oral traditions, is questioned just as much as its history of Othering.

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Mayer, Sophie. "To::For::By::About::With::From:: Towards Solid Women: On (Not) Being Addressed by Tracey Moffatt’s Moodeitj Yorgas." In Female Authorship and the Documentary Image. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474419444.003.0011.

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The hybrid nature of Moodeijt Yorgas, which blends talking heads with oral histories presented through dance, music and optically printed effects, effects an imbrication of documentary and experiments through a specifically non-white, queer feminist authorship. The author thus argues that Moffatt’s film presents a challenge to traditional conceptions of the author/auteur, embedded in Euro-Western exceptionalist individualism. “The stakes for the Moodeitj Yorgas project were therefore high: contesting historical erasure, contemporary misrepresentation by settler culture, and … way in in which settler patriarchy had been internalised within Aboriginal communities to devalue women’s law.”

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