[RNLD] Monuments to the Frontier Wars exhibition

[Murray Garde]

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:

Chips Mackinolty <chips.mackinolty at gmail.com>

From Chips, here is some background:

Mother’s Tongue

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.

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.

Minj ngarri-wokbawoyi kun-wok ngadberre is from Bininj Gunwok, a language group from western Arnhem Land.

With thanks to Lorena Allam, ABC Radio National and Murray Garde, Bininj Gunwok Language Project


Dr Murray Garde | Research Associate | School of Culture, History & Language | College of Asia and the Pacific | Australian National University | Acton ACT 2601.




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