March 29 2023 Djuyalgu Wakulda Gulywanang Moran and Jazlie Davis
Channel: Spinning a Better Yarn: decolonising linguistics
Date: 2023-03-31

Djuyalgu Wakulda: Language Governance, Sharing and Reclaiming our Language Proper Way
EDITED CAPTIONS STILL TO COME
Gulywanyang Moran and Jazlie Davis (Birrbay and Dhanggati, Gathang language), Djuyalgu Wakulda language governance group
https://djuyalguwakulda.org.au/

The Western gaze has turned its attention to Aboriginal Languages. With growing demand for Aboriginal Languages content in Education, Health, Government and Corporate spaces, how do we slow down and revitalise our Languages at our pace, proper ways? As Gathang speaking Peoples, language reclamation is important for our ongoing self-determination and maintenance of sovereignty. Given the history our ancestors endured and the risk of ongoing colonisation of our language spaces today, we believe we have a right to retain our Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights and the powers to make decisions over our language and how it is accessed, used, and represented by others. We do this by operationalising Indigenous governance and data sovereignty principles within our space and upholding our cultural processes and understandings in our approach to Language revitalisation. Justice for us in language revitalisation is the ability to assert our sovereignty and maintain our ways of being, doing and seeing through our Language work. We believe this presentation will be of benefit to other Indigenous groups who are trying to regain control of their languages and are in the earlier stages of language revitalisation.