Elva Taylor University of New England, Armidale, NSW, AustraliaThe World Yuri Matthew Ryuntyu Intellectual Heritage: Australia Australian Black Dungutti Elva Taylor ‘I am a Dungutti Grandmother from the Aboriginal Community and I am 69. I went back to my Kempsey NSW and I felt like I was in an Intellectual Wilderness or Desert… I felt put down and lonely in alien surroundings, nothing was written in my own Aboriginal Community Language. I came to the Public Library and nothing was in Dungutti… NO books, NO posters, NO linguistic evidence of my cultural presence in the past, and nothing about a future co-existence. NO need to recognize my Dungutti Cultural achievement over the last 200 years and NO need to notice their achievements over next 200-years… There has been no such value or pride in our civilization, no cultural meaning to life for the Aboriginal Community in Kempsey NSW… since 1963. I have noticed many slighted historic records, missing vital facts and indeed any information about my Dungutti Grandmothers’ Mother Tongue. To pull the wool over every ones eyes, and put a stop to curiosity and outrage. And there is a similar situation in my Armidale NSW. THERE IS NO KIND of HISTORICAL EVIDENCE on my own Aboriginal Community Language in: the Folk Museum, War Memorial Public Library, Art Museum, University of New England or Archive of the Northern Tableland… Can you sense what kind of sadness I am felling constantly in my homeland Australia… TOTAL and GLOBAL SUFFERING?! Can some one stop this, and give me the FREEDOM TO BE MYSELF AT HOME which has become FOREIGN and UNSAFE. Can some one stop this, and give me PEACE OF MIND and a sense of SUPPORTIVE HARMONY. They have not yet, not for 200 years, over here in Australia. Yuri Ryuntyu
Posted on: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 02:12:29 +0000
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