Inge Kral

It is important for us to read our own stories and to keep the tradition of our language for our future generations. - Dereck Harris, Chairman, Ngaanyatjarra Council In the Time of Their Lives is a wonderful book that honours the extraordinary heritage and historical trajectory of Western Desert (Ngaanyatjarra) speech, the importance of speech and the management of its...

In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, hundreds of illustrated books were published in Nyangumarta and Manyjilyjarra, Aboriginal languages of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, for the Strelley School community. They told stories from the Dreaming, of hunting, working on stations and of the mining camps that this community worked on after the 1946 Pilbara Strike. Illustrated Literature of the...