MLT SUPPORTS LOWER ARRERNTE LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES AT OODNADATTA

September 30, 2021

MLT staff Celeste and Suvam recently travelled to Oodnadatta to do some work with Lower Southern Arrernte speaker Audrey Stewart. MLT collaborated with Audrey to create learning materials in language. Audrey produced a poster about kere ‘animals that are edible’.

Audrey Stewart and Celeste Humphris working on kere poster. Photo: Suvam Sinha 2021.

MLT supported Audrey to run a wonderful language session at Oodnadatta Aboriginal School, where she taught kids some different words for kere and told some stories. The kids then drew some great pictures of kere.

Audrey Stewart teaching kids at Oodnadatta Aboriginal School. Photo: Suvam Sinha 2021.
Some examples of kids work from Audrey’s language class. Photos: Celeste Humphris 2021.

Audrey also helped us collect some yalke ‘wild onion’, kweparte ‘wild plum’! Kele!