Wangka Maya Agm 2008

Wangka
Maya
AGM
 2007‐2008


LINGUISTICS
REPORT


100
Words
DVDs
 •  Bayungu
 •  Nyangumarta
 •  Banyjima
 •  Nyamal
 •  Kariyarra
 •  PuJjarra
 •  Yindjibarndi
 •  Ngarluma





Sketch
Grammars
 •  Manyjilyjarra
 •  Yulparija
 •  Juwaliny
 •  Bayungu
 •  Thalanyji





DicJonaries
 •  Juwaliny

 •  Yulparija

 •  Yinhawangka
 •  Nyiyaparli
 •  Manyjilyjarra
 •  Ngarluma





InteracJve
DicJonaries
 •  Nyangumarta
 •  Manyjilyjarra


And
all
interac,ve
dic,onaries
now
online!!





Archive
Trawling
 •  Nhuwala
 •  Kariyarra
 •  Yinhawangka
 •  Nyiyaparli





Ngambunyjarri
 •  Completed
and
launched
in
Onslow
 •  Already
sold
lots
of
copies!



Nganarna
Nyangumarta
 Karajarrimili
Ngurranga
 •  Book
completed
and
launched
in
Perth
&
 Bidyadanga
 •  Launch
DVD
completed
 •  GeWng
great
feedback


‘Return
to
Country’
Nyiyaparli
 language
DVD
 •  Completed
and
will
be
launched
today


Music
CDs
 •  Nyangumarta
Massacre
Songline
CD,
DVD
of
 handover
&
launch


•  Punmu
Turlku
CD


Nyiyaparli/Palyku
research
 •  David
Nash
wrote
a
report
comparing
 Nyiyaparli
and
Palyku,
incorporaJng
all
 historical
research
on
the
languages.



Language
Awareness
&
wriJng
 workshops
 •  Strelley
School,
Warralong
 •  Karalundi
School,
Meekatharra
 •  Onslow
 •  Roebourne


Nullagine
Stories
CollecJon
 •  Henry
Fraser
recorded
stories
in
the
Nullagine
 community.



Papers
and
PresentaJons
 •  Indigenous
Languages
Conference,
Adelaide,
Sept
2007
–
Sue
presented
paper
on
 Language
Planning,
Sally
a`ended
 •  Australian
Languages
Workshop,
Canberra
Coast,
March
2008
–
Sally,
Eleonora,
&
 Albert
all
presented
 •  ConnecJng
Up
Conference,
Brisbane
–
Sue
presented
on
Wangka
Maya’s
new
 website
and
archive,
Hazel,
Bruce
&
Andrew
a`ended
 •  TESOL
Symposium
on
Keeping
Language
Diversity
Alive,
Alice
Springs
–
Sue
 presented
on
Nyangumarta
curriculum

 •  Indigenous
Tourism
conference

‐
Ada
and
Alicia
a`ended



Ngarluma
Language
Project
 FILMING
 •  Ngaliguru
Wagayi
Wagarila!
‐
short
film
about
going
fishing.
All
in
Ngarluma
 language
with
sub,tles
also
in
language.

 •  Highways
project
–
filming
stories
about
significant
sites
along
the
highway
 DICTIONARY
WORK
 •  Trawling
old
wordlists
 •  New
dic,onary
released
 •  Picture
dic,onary
language
completed
 wanyja
 jarda




Kalgoorlie
Languages
Project
 •  Lexical
databases
&
dicJonaries
for
Cundeelee
 Wangka,
Ngaju,
Tjupan
&
Wangkatja
 •  Language
Names
report
by
Doug
Marmion
 •  Wangkatja
Grammar
 •  Wangkatja
Storybook


Important
acquisiJons

 for
the
archive
 •  Karajarri
Grammar
(J.
Sharp)
 •  Manyjilyjarra
archive
of
the
late
J.
Marsh


Other
DVD
producJons
 •  Carnarvon
Mission
Reunion
 •  WMPALC
PromoJonal
DVD


Soon
to
be
completed…
 •  Ngarluma
Picture
DicJonary
 •  Guide
to
Reading
and
WriJng
Pilbara
 Languages


EVENTS


st WMPALC
21 
Birthday


•  Stalls
held
around
the
Pilbara
towns
&
 communiJes
 •  CommemoraJve
DVD
made
 •  ArJcles
on
local
newspaper
and
media


InternaJonal
Mother

 Language
Day
 •  Stalls
in
Port
&
South
Hedland,
Tom
Price
&
 Karratha
 •  Poster
designed
and
distributed


Welcome
to
Hedland
Night
 •  Stall
with
handouts,
sales
etc


CULTURAL
AWARENESS
 TRAINING


•  76
sessions
 •  Re‐development
of
course
content
 •  Hundreds
of
happy
customers!


STAFF,
LANGUAGE
WORKERS,
 VOLUNTEERS,
STUDENTS


FAREWELL!!


WANGKA MAYA LINK UP STILL
BRINGING
THEM
HOME


WANGKA
MAYA
LINK
UP
REPORT
2007
 ‐
2008
 •  •  •  •  •  • 

Events
 Reunions
 Training
 Staff
 Clients
 EducaJon


REUNIONS
 Albany,
Hedland,
Karratha,
Collie,
Carnarvon,
Broome,
Jalbridanga,
Wiluna,
 Roebourne



What
a
year
it
has
been
for
the
link
up
crew.
 We
have
been
very
busy
this
year
and
have
successfully
held
 several
re‐unions.

 The
major
event
was
the
Carnarvon
Mission
Reunion.
This
 reunion
a`racted
150
people
to
the
opening
and
over
300
 people
to
the
closing
night.


Country


Kin

TRAINING
&
FORUMS
 •  Foxtrot
 •  AITSIS
 •  NaJonal
Link
Up
 Forums
 •  Marumarli
(BSF)


NEW
LINK
UP
OFFICE
 •  Link
Up
staff
moved
to
 Lo`eries
House
 December
2008


Former
Staff



Thanks
to
former
staff
members
for
their
work
in
2007‐2008


LINK
UP
CLIENTS


•  •  •  • 

AcJve:


120
 InacJve:

72
 Closed:



29
 New:







11


FIELD
TRIPS
 Roebourne
 Carnarvon
&
communiJes
 Newman
 Tom
Price
 Paraburdoo


EDUCATION
 •  Sylvia
Clarke
EducaJon
 Officer


Pilbara
25

Gascoyne
7
 •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  • 

Port
Hedland
 South
Hedland
 Marble
Bar
 Nullagine
 Jigalong
 Newman
 Tom
Price
 Paraburdoo
 Onslow
 Karratha
 Roebourne
 Exmouth
 Carnarvon


Developments
&
Networks
 •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  • 

P.A.N.G.O
 Wirraka
Maya
Health
 RelaJonships
Aust
 NaJonal
Link
Up
Offices
 O.A.T.S.I.H
 O.A.H
 D.I.A.
 A.I.A.T.S.I.S
 F.I.R.B


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WMLU
Policy
&
Procedures

 WMLU
Handbook
 WMLU
AcJon
Plan
 MoUs
(conJnuing)
 OATSIH
Risk
Assessment