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- Title
Witulya mulapa nganaṉa mantjintjaku: From cultural devastation to cultural re-invention.
- Authors
Minutjukur, Makinti; Osborne, Sam
- Abstract
For remote Central Australian Aboriginal communities, the world has changed completely and irrevocably in the space of a lifetime. Drawing on Jonathan Lear's (2006) Radical Hope, the authors highlight the comparative struggles outlined in Lear's reflection on the life of Crow Indian chief Plenty Coups. For Aṉangu (Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara people), the same question that confronted Plenty Coups arises: "How can Aṉangu pursue a 'virtuous' Aṉangu existence in a world where 'being Aṉangu' no longer 'makes any sense'?" The authors explore the possibilities of choosing cultural re-invention over resigning to a sense of "the end" and consider how the recognition and retention of long-held values might benefit the broader experience of education, rather than be considered as a barrier or constraint to "success".
- Subjects
EDUCATION of Aboriginal Australians; PITJANTJATJARA (Australian people); INDIGENOUS Australians; RADICAL Hope: Education &; Equality in Australia (Book); LEAR, Jonathan
- Publication
AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2014, Vol 10, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
1177-1801
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/117718011401000102