Noongar Published Resources
The following list of Noongar Published Resources is certainly not a comprehensive list. However, we have attempted to give you an opportunity to access further reading about our Noongar culture and history from a Noongar
Noongar Published Resources
The following list of Noongar Published Resources is certainly not a comprehensive list. However, we have attempted to give you an opportunity to access further reading about our Noongar culture and history from a Noongar perspective. Following this we have included links to Noongar websites which are excellent resources for your use.
LIVING CULTURE LIVING LAND. This booklet was developed by the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council. The book outlines a guide to Noongar Protocols and a Welcome to Country.
CONNECTION TO COUNTRY. Noongar people’s country covers the entire south-western portion of Western Australia. Archaeological evidence establishes that the Noongar people – alternative spellings: Nyungar/Nyoongar/Nyoongah/Nyungah/Nyugah and Yunga – have lived in the area and had possession of tracts of land on their country for at least 45,000 years.
NOONGAR CONSULTATION PROTOCOL GUIDELINES – SWAN AND CANNING RIVERS ICONIC TRAILS PROJECT. A guide to Noongar Consultation Protocol Guidelines.
Professor Kim Scott
Writer: Professor Kim Scott is one of Australia’s greatest writers. A member of the Noongar community, Kim’s novels, poetry and short stories have positioned Noongar culture before the wider Australian and international communities. In 1999, he won Australia’s most prestigious literary award, the Miles Franklin, for his novel Benang: From the Heart – the first Indigenous writer to take out the award. He again won the Miles Franklin in 2011 for That Deadman Dance. In 2012 Kim was awarded his PhD with distinction from the University of Western Australia. He was also presented with the Indigenous award. Kim is deeply involved in language recovery projects helping to return oral histories and archival language material to their home communities. In particular, he is involved with the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories initiative, revitalising traditional stories from the community. As a Professor of Writing at Curtin University, Kim willingly shares his skills, experience and gift for writing with students, staff and outlying communities. Kim also mentors Indigenous students at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University.
THAT DEADMAN DANCE. Kim Scott’s winning third novel, That Deadman Dance, is about the harmonious relations between his Noongar people of south-western Australia and the early settlers.
Dr Rosemary van den Berg
Dr Rosemary van den Berg is a Nyoongar Elder of the south-west people in Western Australia. RRosemary wasborn at Moore River Native Settlement. Her parents moved to Pinjarra when she was five years old, where they bought a five-acre block of land. Van den Berg grew up with five sisters and four brothers. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (English) and a PhD from Curtin University 2002. Dr Van den Berg has worked for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in Perth, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and the Australian Public Service in the area of Aboriginal Affairs. She has also been a writer and an editor, as well as a historian, a grandmother and an Aboriginal Elder. Van den Berg is the fourth daughter of Thomas Corbett (q.v.) who was the subject of her book, No Options, No Choice! : The Moore River Experience: My Father, Thomas Corbett, an Aboriginal Half-Caste (1994). She has worked at Murdoch University, teaching essay writing and English to Aboriginal KATEC (Bridging Course) students.
ABORIGINAL STORYTELLING AND WRITING. Indigenous writers have opened up a whole new concept in Australian writing. Readers are getting a different perspective on Aboriginal life because stories are coming from an Aboriginal point of view, recorded and written by Aborigines from their own experiences of being Aboriginal. And they are having more say in what is being written about them. Aboriginal people are rewriting Australia’s history through their literary input. They are writing autobiographies and biographies, poetry, fiction, drama, the short story, academic papers and children‘s stories. As with Aboriginal theatre, dance and music, it is only within the last two or three decades that Aboriginal literature has really been accepted in this country.
Professor Leonard Collar