Blog: Literature and stories
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Searching for Something About Emus
Literature and storiesIndigenous Australian Languages
5 Jul 2017 Murray GardeI had been living and working in western Arnhem Land since the late 1980s and had learned languages which linguists now collectively refer to as Bininj Kunwok, so the obvious thing to do was to record the stories in the first language of those people who had expert knowledge about ngurrurdu or kurdukadji ‘the emu’.
Sherlocks of the Bush
HistoryIndigenous knowledgeIndigenous knowledge systemsLiterature and stories
18 Oct 2016 Dr Blake SingleyAn issue of The Strand Magazine from December 1914 featured an article by an Australian journalist entitled ‘Black “Sherlocks”: The Native trackers of Australia’.
