Naming Country again - place names, mapping and Aboriginal cultural renewal
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In 2017 Grace Karskens stumbled across an extraordinary manuscript: a handwritten list created in 1829 of 178 Aboriginal place names for Dyarubbin and Ganangdayi, also known as the Hawkesbury and Macdonald Rivers in New South Wales. A team of Darug researchers, educators, linguists, artists, geologists and archaeologists have successfully relocated many of these names and produced a Story Map.
Naming Country again - place names, mapping and Aboriginal cultural renewal