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Kaurna Plains Aboriginal School
Kaurna Plains School aims to concentrate on the development of cultural programs that emphasise the teaching of Aboriginal cultural values and structures. This form of teaching takes into account Aboriginal knowledge and beliefs. In this school's environment, Aboriginal children are the majority, which enables them to experience confidence and success.
First Nations Centre for Higher Education and Research
Kaurna Plains Aboriginal School
Kaurna Plains school opened in 1986 and is the only metropolitan Aboriginal school in Adelaide.
Women & Politics in South Australia - The Aboriginal voice
Kaurna Higher Education Journal
This is an important biography dealing with the first marriage between a Kaurna woman and an English settler. The story of Kudnarto is a history of settler interaction with the Kaurna and the response of the Kaurna to settlers. Kudnarto is everyone's story.
Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes - Kaurna (SA)
Kaurna Peoples Native Title Claim
Atlas of South Australia - ADELAIDE
The Aboriginal Catholic Ministry recognises with respect the traditional owners of the land upon which our Centre is built.
The Kaurna: The Port's indigenous people.
The Kaurna people of the Adelaide plains lived a dignified, affluent and contented lifestyle for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans in the late 18th century.
Australia: The language is not dead - it has been sleeping
Kaurna is one of the several hundreds of peoples who lived in Australia before the Englishmen came 200 years ago and colonized their country. In the 1820s came colonists and missionaries to the land of the Kaurna people. 30-40 years after colonists told about the Kaurna people that "this tribe has ceased to exist".
Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language - Rob Amery
Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language is a longitudinal study of the reclamation of the Kaurna Language, where Kaurna people are working in collaboration with linguists and educators. The book takes an ecological perspective to trace the history of Kaurna drawing on all known sources (mostly from the period 1836-1858) and all known emerging uses in the modern period (1989-1997).
With the arrival of European settlers and missionaries in the 1830s, the indigenous people of the Adelaide region, the KAURNA, were to lose their land, their hunting grounds, their sacred sites, their language. After one shortlived experiment at the Adelaide school, where Lutheran missionaries taught literacy in KUARNA, the language was forbidden and all but lost to the KAURNA people.