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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">To those of you working on Australian languages, here
is a request from the Northern Territory artist Chips Mackinolty who is
preparing artworks for an exhibition 'Monuments to the Frontier Wars' at the Damien Minton Gallery 583 Elizabeth
St Redfern, NSW (more details are attached). His works will feature written texts in a variety of
Australian languages. He has asked me to pass his request to the Australian
language specialist community so that other Australian languages can also be
represented in the exhibition. This involves the creation of prints with
translations of the phrase "We have never surrendered our languages".
The result in Bininj Gunwok is also attached. If other linguists would like to work
with their language communities to send in this phrase translated into other
Australian languages, please send your contributions to Chips at:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Chips Mackinolty <</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Monaco;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><a href="mailto:chips.mackinolty@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:#1037A5">chips.mackinolty@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">From Chips, h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">ere is some background:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Mother’s Tongue</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">We speak our mother’s tongue, as the saying goes. The colonial
project to rid Aboriginal languages from the Australian continent was at its
most extreme in the forced removal of children from their mothers. Many old
people remember being punished, including beatings, for using their mother’s
tongue at school.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Languages have thrived in some areas— but in many not.
Some have remained strong, others are being revived. Many Aboriginal people
tell of languages “sleeping”, waiting to be woken up.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Minj ngarri-wokbawoyi kun-wok ngadberre is from Bininj
Gunwok, a language group from western Arnhem Land.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">With thanks to Lorena Allam, ABC Radio National and
Murray Garde, Bininj Gunwok Language Project</span></p><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(21, 46, 206); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; ">Dr Murray Garde | Research Associate | School of Culture, History & Language | College of Asia and the Pacific | Australian National University | Acton ACT 2601.</span></div>
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