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Booklist - QQI Level 5 Childcare - Early Childhood Care and Education
Kelly Menzel is an Aboriginal woman from the Adelaide Hills and a keeper of ancestral Indigenous Knowledge. She is a nurse by trade and a healer by vocation who is currently completing her PhD and working as a university lecturer.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Books on Australian History
First Footprints - Scott Cane
My most meaningful experiment is creating a songline as close as I can to my understanding of Australian Aboriginal singing tracks. I am using a walking track in the bush near my home. I have named many locations along the track. I find that by singing the names I have given these ‘sacred places’ I can imagine every step of the walk in a way I
... See moreLynne Kelly • The Memory Code: The traditional Aboriginal memory technique that unlocks the secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and ancient monuments the world over
The Aborigines of Australia create songlines that are also maps of their landscape. If even one generation is denied that inheritance, in cultures such as these, the way home will be lost.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
Virtually every endangered language is endangered because its community was systematically targeted by genocide, forced cultural assimilation, some kind of political marginalization. On a practical level, language diversity encodes the sum of human cultural, historical and ecological knowledge. As a species, we lose knowledge when we lose
... See moreMary Elizabeth Williams • Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
Introduction to Psychology & Neuroscience – Simple Book Publishing
Are Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers
Archaeologists can excavate a sunken ship in Denmark and determine that it was built in Ireland. Analysis of ancient DNA can make reliable sex determinations of the dead, tease out their family relationships, and even reveal the colour of their eyes and hair; it also makes possible the wider tracking of migrations and larger demographic change.