Ngoonjook Edition 30

Ngoonjook seeks to make relevant material available to an Indigenous readership and to all those interested in Indigenous Australian issues. Themes explored include: education, health, cultural identity, natural and cultural resource management, the arts and linguistics.

Articles in this issue:

• Land and culture: necessary but not sufficient for the future. Identity in the 21st Century by Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
• Why we do what we do! Reflections of an Aboriginal linguist working on the maintenance and revival of ancestral languages by Jeanie Bell
• Nominals by Liz Ellis
• Indigenous mentors in teacher education for Kaho’iwai by Kerri-Ann Hewett, Anthony Fraser, Beth Ann Burgess and Lindell Ohia ‘
• Before I forget’: dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities by Kerry Arabena
• Writing about family: Terri Janke talks about writing Butterfly song by Terri Janke
• The red dress by Gloria Corliss
• Between celebration and mourning: testimonial subjects in Ruby Langford Ginibi’s Don’t take your love to town and Elsie Roughsey Labumore’s An Aboriginal mother tells of the old and the new. by Eleanor Hogan
• Human remains: anthropodermic bibliopegy and the appeal of the extreme in challenging the continuing external management of Indigenous remains. by Sandy O’Sullivan
• Cycads, the crocodiles of the plant world: ancient lineage and the potential to be deadly by Sharon Chirgwin
• Review of Janet Hutchinson’s The milk in the sky: writing from the centre by Eleanor Hogan