In this article, I address the history of documentation of the Jardiwanpa ceremony over a period of just over a hundred years - a spectacular ceremony which has come through its many media representations to represent and showcase Warlpiri ritual life to a broader world.
A bi-partisan approach is required, whereby government recognises and adds value to the financial commitment that the Warlpiri Education Training Trust (WETT) has made in the past ten years, and has committed to in future years.
(14.) Not to mention, for example, these kinds of claims: "Legate's discovery that the left periphery of Warlpiri looks like Rizzi's left periphery for Italian (and Cable's for Tlingit) would have been the topic of an hour on NPR Science Friday" (slide 72).
Croft (2002: 226-233) presents various phenomena that are problematic for such one-to-one mapping, as in the following sentence from the Australian language Warlpiri.
While families and people from the same language group tend to cluster together, the Alice Springs town camps are home to people from a mix of language and cultural groups, including Arrernte, Warlpiri and Luritja (Foster, Mitchell, Ulrik & Williams, 2005).
On the issue of access, it is interesting to note that the two existing Indigenous television stations, Warlpiri Media and EVTV, supported the CAAMA bid with reservations.
A linguist from the University of Michigan has been studying "Light Warlpiri" as it's been developing spontaneously--for reasons that are unclear--over the past decade.
This is a Water Dreaming painting, being concerned with two creation beings who summoned the rain by singing until a great thunderstorm arrived to create large underground wells that would feed the springs and sustain the Warlpiri people.