I am a concrete Koori - the Gadigal language of the Eora Nation #speakers | ILARA
Channel: ILARA
Date: 2024-02-06

The #Speakers series of ILARA Online features women and men who speak rare and precious indigenous languages. Through their testimony, and stories, we can relate to what this means for them, and connect with their intimate experience.

In this video, Konstantina (Kate Constantine), an aboriginal artist from the #Eora Nation, talks about her relationship to her language, #Gadigal, which is currently dormant, and which she is working on revitalizing, and passing on to her children, together with culture.
Gadigal is the language of the Sydney City/Warrane area, it belongs to the Yuin-Kuric group of the Pama-Nyungan language family. It has been described by Professor Jakelin Troy as "the Sydney Language", and is also known as Dharug.

Watching Konstantina's TedX talk might be very helpful in understanding what it means to be a « white aboriginal », and the complexities of a personal history that involves intergenerational trauma, around the issue of the Stolen Generations.

▶️ https://youtu.be/gBqAYrBhSsM?si=ak_KpaLL9Gcd2hEp "Am I Black Enough?", TedX ByronBay talk by Kate Constantine.

If you would like to know more about subjects broached in the video, such as  the trauma of the Stolen Generations, the diversity of the First languages and cultures of Australia, as well as current issues such as the Voice Referendum of October 2023, please click on the following links:

🔸AIATSIS: (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islanders) https://aiatsis.gov.au/
🔸Australian indigenous languages: https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/languages-alive
🔸Aiatsis map of indigenous languages: https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/map-indigenous-australia
🔸Stolen Generations: https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/stolen-generations
🔸Voice referendum: https://www.niaa.gov.au/indigenous-affairs/referendum-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-voice ; 
🔸Professor Jakelin Troy: https://www.sydney.edu.au/research/our-researchers/academic-staff/jakelin-troy.html
🔸The Dawes notebooks on the language spoken in the area now known as Sydney/Warrane (1799-91) : https://www.williamdawes.org/


Konstantina is on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/konstantina_aboriginalart/
And she is represented in France by Arts d'Australie, a gallery owned by Stéphane Jacob: 
https://www.facebook.com/artsdaustralieparis/
https://www.instagram.com/artaborigene/
https://twitter.com/artsdaustralie
https://www.youtube.com/user/artsdaustralie
https://www.pinterest.com.au/artaborigene/