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Continuing the motif of women in historical dress used for the themes in this website, the illustration for The Aboriginal voice is of a Kaurna woman in historical dress of possum skin, carrying a Katta or digging stick. According to the South Australian Museum, the woman is suckling her child according to the customary method—the child is seated in a skin pouch at her back, and reaches the breast by placing its head beneath the mother's arm. This contemporary illustration by Adelaide artist Anne Best is based on Woman and child of the Kaurna tribe by George French Angas. It is reproduced here with her permission and the permission of the Education Department of South Australia, © from The Kaurna people: Aboriginal people of the Adelaide plains (Adelaide, Education Department of South Australia, 1989).
The Aboriginal voice is heard within the community as an agent for social, cultural, and political development. The Aboriginal voice also speaks for the land and for spiritual matters. This website gives a glimpse into the lives of several indigenous South Australian women who among other things have been successful political activists working within the broader political sphere, and together with the South Australian community and its institutions.
The Aboriginal people who lived on the Adelaide plains, where the State Library of South Australia stands, are the Kaurna people. A "Timeline of events affecting the Kaurna 1789-1989" is included in the publication The Kaurna people: Aboriginal people of the Adelaide plains. An Aboriginal studies course for secondary students in years 8-10 (Adelaide, Education Department of South Australia, 1989). As well, a select chronology of Aboriginal history in South Australia appears in Elizabeth Kwan's Living in South Australia: a social history (Netley, SA, South Australian Government Printer, 1987) in two volumes (volume 1—From before 1836 to 1914, volume 2—After 1914.) Another key resource is Survival in our own land: "Aboriginal" experiences in "South Australia" since 1836, told by Nungas and others ; edited and researched by Christobel Mattingley, co-edited by Ken Hampton, Rev. ed.(Sydney, Hodder & Stoughton, 1992). Copies of these key resources are held in the Bray, Mortlock and Aboriginal Resource Collections.
The Aboriginal voice is heard within the community as an agent for social, cultural, and political development. The Aboriginal voice also speaks for the land and for spiritual matters. This website gives a glimpse into the lives of several indigenous South Australian women who among other things have been successful political activists working within the broader political sphere, and together with the South Australian community and its institutions.
The Aboriginal people who lived on the Adelaide plains, where the State Library of South Australia stands, are the Kaurna people. A "Timeline of events affecting the Kaurna 1789-1989" is included in the publication The Kaurna people: Aboriginal people of the Adelaide plains. An Aboriginal studies course for secondary students in years 8-10 (Adelaide, Education Department of South Australia, 1989). As well, a select chronology of Aboriginal history in South Australia appears in Elizabeth Kwan's Living in South Australia: a social history (Netley, SA, South Australian Government Printer, 1987) in two volumes (volume 1—From before 1836 to 1914, volume 2—After 1914.) Another key resource is Survival in our own land: "Aboriginal" experiences in "South Australia" since 1836, told by Nungas and others ; edited and researched by Christobel Mattingley, co-edited by Ken Hampton, Rev. ed.(Sydney, Hodder & Stoughton, 1992). Copies of these key resources are held in the Bray, Mortlock and Aboriginal Resource Collections.
