'Wildwood,' by Roger Deakin Jan 5, 2009
The author bushwhacks through ominous forests on the Polish/Ukrainian border and joins Australian Aboriginal women on a hunt for desert bush-plums. His exploits in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, where he seeks out the original species of wild apple and walnut trees, are a book in miniature, a rip-roaring epic of crazed rides in Russian jeeps and vodka-drenched feasts in foresters' shacks. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Editorial: Let this historic change unite the USA Nov 8, 2008
"So, you're a proponent of the one-drop rule. Interesting."The one-drop rule is a historical colloquial term in the United States that holds that a person with any trace of African ancestry is considered black unless having an alternative non-white ancestry which he or she can claim, such as Native American, Asian, Arab, or Australian aboriginal. It developed most strongly out of the binary culture of long years of institutionalized slavery. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Double bill takes audience on an emotional ride Sep 20, 2008
An awful lot goes on in Australian aboriginal playwright Wesley Enoch's Black Medea, a retelling of the Greek tragedy in terms all too familiar to a contemporary audience. Audrey Dwyer is commanding as Medea, a woman from a tribal background who marries a man from the city. (Toronto Star)
Aboriginal Culture and the Dreamtim... Sep 19, 2008
According to Australian Aboriginal culture, all living things were created by ancient spirit ancestors. These stories of creation are known as the Dreamtime, or Dreaming. (Suite101.com)
Language for numbers not necessary for numeracy skills Aug 20, 2008
Research carried out on Australian Aboriginal children from two remote communities, with restricted words or gestures for numbers, and comparing them with English-speaking Aboriginal children, found no difference in numerical ability. The study, published in the journal , was led by the (UCL) and the and challenges previous studies which found "counting words" were necessary to develop number skills. (The Tech Herald)
The storm within Aug 3, 2008
In a culture of reticence, such as Australian Aboriginal culture, disinhibition is an aim in itself ... In considering the desperate condition of Australian Aboriginal people after 200 years of abuse physical and mental, we should not be surprised to find towering rates of domestic violence. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Aboriginal art dealer paints himself into a corner Jul 29, 2008
Welcome to Herald Sun. July 29, 2008 12:01am. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
Read Indepth Article Jul 5, 2008
"Two Cultures, One Soul" atToowoomba Regional Gallery running from July 2 - August 3, 2008, is the first solo exhibition by Australian Aboriginal Artist John Weeronga Bartoo in eighteen months. Invitees to the opening on July 5 will be able to view the exhibition to the haunting sounds of the didgeridoo while savouring some bush foods. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Lindsey Dank shows off a handmade didgeridoo. The woodwind instrument is distinctive and unique to Australian Aboriginal culture. Genuine didgeridoos are only found in northern parts of Australia. COURTESY PHOTO Jun 7, 2008
The woodwind instrument is distinctive and unique to Australian Aboriginal culture ... Didgeridoos are distinctive woodwind instruments, unique to Australian Aboriginal culture. (Lake City Reporter, FL)
New NAC dance season features hottest companies, world premieres Apr 15, 2008
Oct. 28, Bangarra Dance Theatre presents Awakenings, which mixes Australian Aboriginal culture with contemporary dance. Levy calls them "exciting, luscious and pounding.". (Canada.com)
Should Rudd do more for Tibet? Apr 8, 2008
And while we're at it, how about the devastation of the Australian aboriginal people ... Mr. Kevin Rudd will never boycott the ceremony unless Mr John Howard say " sorry" to Australian Aboriginal, since Mr Rudd has as good knowledge of Tibet just as Mr Howard has about Aurtralian Aboriginal ... China did not boycott Sydney Olympic Game even if John Howard's goverment refuse to say sorry to Australian Aboriginal. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
In New York: A bookworm's holiday Jan 10, 2008
Where is the current issue of the journal of Australian Aboriginal Studies. A bleak winter weekend is a great time to haunt the city's libraries, when they seem to serve almost as much as museums and performance halls as repositories of the written word. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
World Around Us Oct 13, 2007
Bill Neidjie, Kakadu Australian Aboriginal. The solution of present-day problems lies in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. (India Times, India)
Desert Dreamscapes’ Sep 26, 2007
The Holter is hosting Betz this week, as well as Australian aboriginal art collectors Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan of Seattle, who loaned the paintings for the exhibition. The Holter s other guest is Australian aboriginal artist Andrea Nungurrayi Martin, who is in Helena to share her culture with local students and community members. (Helena Independent Record)
Aboriginal bush medicine heals body and soul Sep 3, 2007
CURRENT ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS. September 03, 2007 SIDEBAR September 02, 2007. (Scientific American)
BBC sound archiveVietnamese spoon music to Edward VIII's abdication - listen here Aug 31, 2007
As a result the BBC has a collection of Australian Aboriginal music, the sound of the kind of harp King David played, recorded in Ethiopia , and - something of which she was inordinately fond - some Vietnamese spoon music. Spirit of Britain. (BBC News -- UK)
An Australian icon Aug 29, 2007
For an icon who helped put Australian Aboriginal painting on the global art map, Tjakamarra is supremely uninterested in glamour, except possibly for the wraparound dark glasses that shelter the results of a recent cataract operation. Papunya is a dusty and bland little cluster of houses hundreds of kilometers from the nearest town, a pinprick in the middle of the vast deserts that dominate central Australia. (International Herald Tribune)
Languages to live longer Aug 20, 2007
It is estimated that from the 250 known Australian Aboriginal languages, only 15 to 20 are fluently spoken today. The top five indigenous languages are spoken at home by between 2500 and 5800 people only, according to the 2006 census. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Possum's fire dreaming sets record Jul 25, 2007
The knockout bid more than doubled the world record sale price for an Australian Aboriginal art work. National Gallery of Australia director Ron Radford AM today said the painting would be a key work for the Main Central Desert Room in the gallery's new wing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, which will begin construction in Canberra next month. (The Australian)
Proud people reborn May 26, 2007
" Unsurprisingly, he speaks with some anger. At 81, George Rose, OAM, is one of the survivors and his journey past the trip wire - the age of 60, which is the average life expectancy for an Aboriginal male - has known humiliation but above all a furious and stubborn refusal to submit. One of a stolen generation, he is known as "Bandit", and the name suits. The "fugitives" are non-Aborigines whose ancestors came to the great south land from far places and who today number about 20 million, a... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Chalco inks Aboriginal pact for bauxite mine May 25, 2007
Select an Edition: Fri May 25 06:19:14 2007. (Adds signing of agreement, details). (AlertNet)
Howard and Rudd couldn't be much Dalai Lamer May 20, 2007
Finally, I believe it would be most appropriate if leading members of Australian Aboriginal communities were included as guests of honour to show a true spirit of reconciliation. This may sound like a pipe dream but I think the symbolism would be most powerful and persuasive, particularly in an election year. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Aboriginal remains fight resolved May 11, 2007
London's Natural History Museum has struck a deal with Australian aboriginal leaders over the remains of 17 indigenous Tasmanians it holds. The museum had agreed to return the remains to Tasmania, but not until tests were carried out on the bones. (BBC News -- UK)
Going Native in the Australian Outback: Mar 7, 2007
Rather, I have resolved to spend the next week looking for a meaningful experience of Australian aboriginal culture. My guide for today, a Pitjantjatjara man named Wally Jacob, is lateso I've been killing time by taking photos of central Australia's iconic sandstone landmark and the dusty, red desert that surrounds it. (Slate)
Russias Indigenous Kazakhs Feb 20, 2007
This makes even the Australian Aboriginal average age seem old by comparison. The Soviet government used these Indigenous people as guinea pigs for nuclear tests during the cold war, and their living areas are still dangerously radioactive today. (Suite101.com)
Breaking down the barriers Jan 11, 2007
On those occasions, he drops the Douglass-Garnet portion and its complicated language and closes with an Australian aboriginal instrument, the didgeridoo usually children s favorite part. The response has been good no matter where I ve gone, he said. (Anacortes Weekly, WA)
A whitewash of criminal realities Jan 7, 2007
As one of Australia's most prominent anthropologists, Peter Sutton, wrote in Anthropological Forum back in 2001: "The contrast between the progressive public rhetoric about empowerment and self-determination and the raw evidence of a disastrous failure in major aspects of Australian Aboriginal affairs policy since the early 1970s is frightening.". Nothing has changed. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
