TECHNOLOGY is helping save Aboriginal languages and traditional ceremonies from dying out. Inma – traditional ceremonies told through stories and dances – will be filmed in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands and the Maralinga Tjarutja Lands to create a DVD that community leaders can pass on to their youth.
The Tjitji Tjutaku Inma project involves 11 Pitjantjatjara communities and Carclew Youth Arts.
Carclew community program manager Lee-Ann Buckskin said Pitjantjatjara elders developed the project idea because of concerns the future of their stories were in jeopardy.
She said those who spoke traditional languages were now very elderly and without projects such as this, the language would be lost.
Children have been rehearsing for the past year.
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