Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association
Search Mura at AIATSIS for Adnyamathanha resources
Coulthard, Terrence & Coulthard, Josephine. Adnyamathanha : a culture guide and language book, 2020.
Mobile Language Team. Adnyamathanha.
Flinders Ranges Aboriginal songs, 1939.
McEntee, John and McKenzie, Pearl. Adnamatna English dictionary, 1992.
McEntee, John. Pronunciation guide to the Adnamatana language, 1976.
Neville, Lily. Adnyamathanha Ngawarla, 2007.
Tunstill, Guy (ed). Adnyamathanha years R to 10 : a teaching framework for revival and second language learning in years reception to ten, 2004.
Adnyamathanha yarta nakuntha [videorecording] : to look at the Adnyamathanha land, 1992.
Cook, Grayson Unsettled, 2017. Content related to this exhibition, including interviews with Adnyamathanha at Nepabunna.
Flinders Ranges Aboriginal songs, 1939.
McKenzie, Buck. Songs for Aboriginal studies and reconciliation, 2009.
The Lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha Aboriginal Community, Interviewer: Tracy Spencer, 2001-2002.
Yulu's coal. Radio documentary about the journey of one of the major Adnyamathanha Creation Ancestors, Yulu the Kingfisher Man.
Part 1
Part 2
Yulu's coal. book by Terrence Coulthard, Cliff Coulthard and Buck Mckenzie.
"The Adnyamathanha people are from the greater Flinders Ranges area. The name Adnyamathanha means ‘Rock People’. According to one account, this relates to the striking and unique rock formations in and around Vulkathunha – the Flinders and Gammon ranges. Today, there are different dialect or language groups within Adnyamathanha, with people identifying as Kuyani-Adnyamathanha, Wailpi-Adnyamathanha, Yadliawarda-Adnyamathanha, Pirlatpa-Adnyamathanha, or simply Adnyamathanha. Adnyamathanha people live in places like Nepabunna, Ikara (Wilpena Pound) and Leigh Creek, as well as in towns and cities throughout South Australia including Port Augusta and Adelaide." Source: Mobile Language Team website.
Just some of the Adnyamathanha people doing amazing things in our community are:
Denise Champion Talking about Reconciliation Week with Denise Champion
Terrence Coulthard The first Adnyamathanha dictionary, 40 years in the making
Vince Coulthard Community celebrates the life of Vince Coulthard
Adam Goodes Goodes reconnects with his lost Aboriginal culture
Jacinta Koolmatrie The myth of Aboriginal stories being myths
Dr Jillian Marsh First nations rights and colonising practices by the nuclear industry
Rebecca Richards Australia's first Indigenous Rhodes scholar
Marsha Uppill NAIDOC Week reflections
Vicky Welgraven From South Australia to the UN: Adnyamathanha woman's anti-violence campaign
Bonney, Neville. Adnyamathanha and beyond : useful plants of an ancient land, 2007.
Brock, Peggy. Outback ghettos : Aborigines, institutionalisation and survival, 1993.
Brock, Peggy. Yura and Udnyu : a history of the Adnyamathanha of the North Flinders Ranges, 1985.
Coulthard, Terrence & Josephine. Adnyamathanha : a culture guide and language book, 2020.
Davis, Christine and McKenzie, Pearl. Adnyamathanha genealogy, 1985.
Ellis, Julie & Bob. Nepabunna: a brief history, 2011.
The Flinders Ranges : an Aboriginal view, 1986.
Koolmatrie, Jacinta. Rock art and Yura Malka: A study on the relevance of archaeological rock art practices and theories from Adnyamathanha perspectives, 2018.
Lamshed, Max. 'Monty': the biography of C.P. Mountford, 1972. Ch. 10.
Marsh, Jillian. A critical analysis of decision-making protocols used in approving a commercial mining license for the Beverley Uranium Mine in Adnyamathanha Country... 2011.
Mountford, Charles P. Women of the Adnjamatana tribe of the Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, 1941.
Neville, Lily. Adnyamathanha Ngawarla, 2007.
Ross, Betty. Minerawuta : Ram Paddock Gate : an historic Adnyamathanha settlement in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, 1989.
Survival in our own land : 'Aboriginal' experiences in 'South Australia' since 1836. Ch. 28 'Nepabunna', p. 227-234
Tunbridge, Dorothy. Flinders Ranges dreaming, 1988.
Tunbridge, Dorothy. Artefacts of the Flinders Ranges : an illustrated dictionary of artefacts used by the Adnyamathanha, c1985.
PRG 1218/34/794B, Mountford-Sheard Collection.
The Library holds many photographs relating to this topic, which can be viewed online by searching the Library catalogue.
This record group comprises a unique collection of material amassed by C. P. Mountford during a career spanning the 1930s to the 1960s and includes material relating to the Adnyamathanha people. See more at SA Memory - Nepabunna
All access to the Mountford-Sheard Collection is by prior arrangement.
Please consult the catalogue and the list of Mountford's expeditions on this guide to ascertain which parts of the collection you wish to access.
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If the material that you wish to access is deemed to contain sacred/secret content it cannot be viewed without permission from the relevant Aboriginal community.
Permission will also have to be sought if you wish to copy or publish images that contain Aboriginal people or Aboriginal intellectual property or traditional knowledge.
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To locate journal articles, access the State Library's eResources.
Selected South Australian newspapers, published prior to 1955, have been digitised as part of the National Library of Australia’s Trove website.
Further newspaper articles may be identified by using the following, Newspaper index : references to Aborigines in Adelaide newspapers, 1836-1940, 1989.