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This community contains texts related to Aboriginal language and history that have been digitised from texts held by Rare Books & Manuscripts.
The Barr Smith Library recognises the moral rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the owners of their knowledge. To this end, Special Collections is digitising resources in our collections to enhance access for people who cannot travel to Adelaide.
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Item Open Access An Australian grammar : comprehending the principles and natural rules of the language, as spoken by the Aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter’s River, Lake Macquarie, &c. New South Wales(1834) Threlkeld, L. E. (Lancelot Edward), 1788-1859.Threlkeld describes the grammar and language of the Aborigines living near Hunter River and Lake Macquarie (N.S.W.)Item Open Access Christianity the means of civilization : shown in the evidence given before a committee of the House of Commons on Aborigines(R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1837) Coates, D.; Beecham, John; Ellis, WilliamEvidence is given by members of some Protestant Missionary Societies to a committee of the House of Commons about the civilising influence of ChristianityItem Open Access Outline of a system of legislation, for securing protection to the Aboriginal inhabitants of all the countries colonized by Great Britain, extending to them political and social rights, ameliorating their condition, and promoting their civilization(London: published by John Murray : Saunders and Otley : Hatchard and Son : Smith, Elder, and Co. : G. Fry : W. Houlston, 1840) Motte, StandishItem Open Access Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology, of the aboriginal language of South Australia, spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide(Adelaide : Published by the authors, at the Native location, 1840) Teichelmann, Christian Gottlieb; Schurmann, C.W.Item Open Access Vocabulary of the language spoken by the aborigines of the southern and eastern portions of the settled districts of South Australia...(James Allen, 1843) Meyer, Heinrich August EdwardItem Open Access A vocabulary of the Parnkalla language : spoken by the natives inhabiting the western shores of Spencer's Gulf, to which is prefixed a collection of grammatical rules, hitherto ascertained By C.W. Shurmann of the Lutheran Missionary Society, Dresden.(Adelaide : George Dehane, 1844) Schürmann, Clamor WilhelmSchurmann's Grammar and vocabulary of the Aboriginal language Barngarla, from the Pt Lincoln (S.Aust.) areaItem Open Access A vocabulary, and outline of the grammatical structure of the Murray River language : spoken by the natives of South Australia, from Wellington on the Murray, as far as the Rufus(Andrew Murray, 1846) Moorhouse, M (Matthew)Vocabulary and grammar of the Ngayawang language spoken by Murundi people living on the Murray River between Wellington (S.Aust.)and the Rufus River (N.S.W.)Item Open Access The Poomindie Mission [at Port Lincoln], : described in a letter from the Lord Bishop of Adelaide to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.(London : Printed for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; sold by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1853., 1853) Short, Augustus, 1802-1883.; Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain), recipient.Letter from the Bishop of Adelaide. Besides giving an account of the present state of this "Mission to the heathen Aborigines of South Australia’, contains many references to previous events at Port LincolnItem Open Access Explorations by Mr. S. Hack(1857) Hack, SItem Open Access Native book of worship(Point Macleay [S. Aust.] : Printed for the Aboriginal Native Church of Christ at Port Macleay, 1874) Taplin, GeorgeNgarrindjeri translations of prayers for the Aboriginal Native Church of Christ at Point Mcleay (S.Aust.), now called Raukkan.Item Open Access The Native Tribes of South Australia(Wigg & Son, 1879) Taplin, George; Wyatt, William; Meyer, A; Schurmann, C. W. (Clamor Wilhelm); Gason, Samuel; Bennett, John William OgilvieVarious authors' accounts of the South Australian Aborigines, particularly the Narrinyeri, Adelaide and Encounter Bay people, the Port Lincoln and Dieyerie people, including their customs and languages. The book incorporates some information from what we now call the Northern Territory.Item Open Access The Aborigines of Australia : being an account of the institution for their education at Poonindie, in South Australia : founded in 1850 by the Ven. Archdeacon Hale, a missionary of S.P.G(1889) Hale, Mathew BAn account of the history of the Poonindie Mission, near Pt Lincoln, S.Australia, since its foundation in 1850 by Archdeacon Matthew Blagden Hale.Item Open Access The Aborigines of Central Australia : with vocabularies of the dialects spoken by the natives of Lake Amadeus and of the western territory of Central Australia(Adelaide : Government Printer., 1891) Willshire, W. H.Police Officer W.H. Willshire describes his experiences in charge of native police. He was based in what is now Alice Springs, (N.T.) and was able to collect some of the local language and customs of that area and also of the Lake Amadeus area in the S.W. of N.T.Item Open Access Testamenta marra : Jesuni Christuni ngantjani jaura ninaia karitjimalkana wonti Dieri jaurani(Tanunda, S.A. : G. Auricht, 1897)Item Open Access Police Experiences with the Natives : Reminiscences of the early days of the colony(Adelaide : H. F. Leader, Govt. Printer, 1890-1987., 1902) McLean, JamesThe Mounted Police Force and Sherriff's Officer James MacLean describes his early years in the colony of South Australia (1840-46) and his experiences policing the Aborigines.Item Open Access In savage Australia: an account of a hunting and collecting expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land(London: Philip Allan, 1926) Dahl, KnutItem Open Access Pearls from the deep : the story of Colebrook Home for Aboriginal Children, Quorn, South Australia(United Aborigines’ Mission, 1936) Turner, Violet ElizabethHistory of Annie Lock's missionary work with Aboriginal children from 1924 in Oodnadatta to the 1930s in the United Aborigines' Mission Colebrook Childrens Home in Quorn (S.Aust.)Item Open Access Beyond all expectations : the work of Lutheran Missionaries from Dresden, Germany amongst Aborigines of South Australia, 1838-1853 : two contributions(Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi KWP, 2014) Rüdiger, Gerhard; Lockwood, Greg; Lockwood, Christine; Amery, Rob; Power, Katrina Karlapina2nd. edition. The first edition of this book was printed 175 years after the voyage to, and arrival of the first two of four young missionaries from Germany in infant South Australia in 1838. Sent out by the Lutheran Dresden Missionary Society, they commenced living and working with Aboriginal people of what is now known as the Adelaide Plains and two years later, at Encounter Bay and on the Eyre Peninsula. The First Australian people of the Kaurna community, the Ramindjeri / Ngarrindjeri community, and the Barngarla community, trusted these missionaries and taught them their languages, beginning at "Piltawodli" [in the new spelling adopted in 2010: Pirltawardli], on the former native location at the Torrens River, in December 1839. The missionaries recorded their languages systematically, and published three dictionaries hoping that their efforts would help establish a better understanding of the Aboriginal people amongst the white fellow settlers. This did not happen. On the contrary, relations quickly deteriorated. Within 10 years, the missionaries gave up their work due to the lack of financial support and the dispersal of most of the Aboriginal people with whom they had been in contact. As not one of them had converted to Christianity, the Australian mission was considered a failure. However, since the late 1980s, the three dictionaries have come into good use. The Aboriginal people in South Australia, descendants of their forefathers at the time of invasion, use these records to reclaim their languages and thus their culture and identity.Item Open Access [Kaurna Children's Letters](2015-03-05)Letters written in the 1840s by the Kaurna schoolchildren, Wailtyi, Kartanya, and Pitpauwe to the Lutheran Mission in Germany. These are three of just five known surviving documents written by Kaurna people in their language in the 19th Century.Item Open Access 'Minning Word List - Fraser Ranges’(2015-04-28)Vocabularies of words and phrases, with translation from the language of the "Minninng" people of Fraser Range, Western Australia