i-Tjuma: Ngaanyatjarra Stories from the Western Desert of Central Australia Publisher / Melbourne University Publishing The First Knowledges series provides

The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians

and political history of Australia throughout the twentieth century

it challenges us to look at our history without flinching as an act of remembrance and reconciliation

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i-Tjuma: Ngaanyatjarra Stories from the Western Desert of Central Australia Publisher / Melbourne University Publishing The First Knowledges series providesBetween 2012 and 2019 Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Inge Kral and Jennifer Green worked together to make an enduring record of endangered verbal arts in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands communities of Western Australia. They filmed traditional Ngaanyatjarra tjinytjatjunku or mirlpa (telling stories while drawing in the sand) with women and girls. They then loaded up some iPads with a drawing app and filmed younger women using this new technology to draw with as