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	waru.org: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Council
		Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) is incorporated by the 1981 Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act whereby the SA Parliament gave Aboriginal people title to more than 103,000 square kilometres of arid land in the far northwest of South Australia.
		All Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra people who are traditional owners of any part of the Lands are members of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara.
		Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjra is seeking to improve its provision of electronic services and sees the internet as a vehicle to help reduce the isolation of the communities.
	waru.org /organisations/ap (262 words)

	Pitjantjatjara language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Pitjantjatjara is part of the Western Desert Group of the Pama-Nyungan languages spoken in central Australia by about 3000 people, about 80% of whom are monolingual.
		Pitjantjatjara has been written with the Latin alphabet since the 1940s and the spelling system was standarised in 1979 and confirmed in 1987 by the publication of a Pitjantjatjara–English dictionary.
		Ngayuku ini Raelene-nya, ngayulu walkapai Pitjantjatjara, ngayulu ngura Areyonga-la. Munu ngayuku nyunytju mama-kulu walkapai Pitjantjatjara, ka ngayuku tjamu walkapi Ngaatjatjarra, ka ngayuku kami walkapai Pitjantjatjara.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/pitjantjatjara.htm (209 words)

	waru.org: Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Acts
		Subject to this Act, where land has vested in Anangu Pitjantjatjara in pursuance of this Part, no estate or interest in the land- (a) may be alienated from Anangu Pitjantjatjara; or (b) may be compulsorily acquired, resumed or forfeited under the law of this State.
		(6) The Pitjantjatjara members of the Committee are entitled to be accompanied at meetings of the Committee by advisers and interpreters.
		(3) Anangu Pitjantjatjara shall not withhold its consent to the construction or re-construction of a road referred to in the second schedule, but this subsection does not prejudice the right of Anangu Pitjantjatjara to negotiate conditions affecting the location of the road, the road works, or ancillary or associated works.
	www.waru.org /resources/landrightsact.php (6831 words)

	School of Languages
		Pitjantjatjara is one of a group of closely related Australian languages spoken in the north-western regions of South Australia (the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands) and extending into neighbouring parts of Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
		Pitjantjatjara is spoken by several thousand people, on traditional homelands and in Port August, Ceduna, Alice Springs and Adelaide.
		Pitjantjatjara is one of the better known of the Australian languages, having a good quality dictionary, published grammars, cultural information, and a written tradition dating from the 1940s when it was first used in school bilingual programs.
	language.tmp.anchor.net.au /html/02_langoff/02k_pitjant.php (322 words)

	NCJRS Abstract - National Criminal Justice Reference Service
		The Pitjantjatjara are determined to keep their customary methods for dealing with disputes, but concede that 'serious' offenses should be handled by the conventional South Australian legal system.
		For instance, the Pitjantjatjara repeatedly disclaim their own capacity to handle the profoundly difficult cultural problems associated with social control and have sought third party backing to enforce decisions requiring coercion.
		The most effective approach may be for the Pitjantjatjara Council to negotiate funds equal to that being spent on the maintenance of law and order, with a view toward purchasing the appropriate assistance.
	www.ncjrs.gov /app/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=96006 (322 words)

	Resources Theses
		The argument is located in the social constructionist paradigm, proposing that in order to understand sexual behaviour, and by extension, sexual health behaviour, it is necessary to examine both attitudes and practice in relation to sex, and also the social and cultural contexts in which these attitudes and practices are shaped.
		These influences include the harsh arid-zone environment in which the Pitjantjatjara have survived for the past twenty thousand years, and the influence of the unique water ecology of the region on the particular survival strategy that the Pitjantjatjara have evolved.
		The Pitjantjatjara system prescribes who men and women can marry: marriage partners must be of the same generational moiety; they must come from distant land-holding lineages, in terms of both genealogical and physical distance; and the man must be in a specific ritual relationship with the father of his potential wife.
	www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au /html/html_resources/theses/willis.htm (908 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kalka, South Australia
		Kalka Aboriginal Community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands of South Australia lies on Land administered under the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981.
		Anangu is a word that means people in a number of Australian Aboriginal languages, including, but not limited to: Arrente Western Arrente Eastern Arrente Central Arrente Pitjantjatjara Ngaanyatjarra Yankunytjatjara Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjara refer to themselves as Anangu, which originally just meant people in general, but has now come to...
		Pitjantjatjara is the name of both an Aboriginal tribe of the Central Australian desert and their language.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kalka%2C-South-Australia (363 words)

	Proposal for a Learning Exchange between the Swadhyaya community (Western India) and the Pitjantjatjara community ...
		The Pitjantjatjara aboriginal community at Amata on traditional tribal lands in the Central Australian desert is faced with a classical pattern of psycho-social problems (alcoholism, petrol-sniffing, unemployment, alienation) although supported materially and socially by Australian welfare benefits.
		In respect of the Pitjantjatjara it should be emphasized that this proposal relates primarily to a cultural initiative on the part of those centered on the Amata community and the manner in which this might assist the development of the wider community of Aborigines and the process of reconciliation with other Australians.
		The Pitjantjatjara are privileged to be relatively protected (for the moment) by their land trust agreement and the authority of their spiritual elders, in comparison with other Aboriginal groups.
	www.laetusinpraesens.org /docs/indiaoz.php (7018 words)

	PIRSA Petroleum - Access to Land - Aboriginal Issues (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Following the recommendations of the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Working Party, the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act was passed in 1981, under which a corporate body, Anangu Pitjantjatjara, holds the land in fee simple; the land cannot be sold, compulsorily acquired, resumed or forfeited, nor is land tax payable.
		The Aboriginal people to the south of the Pitjantjatjara lands sought similar legislation and, in 1984, freehold titles were given to Maralinga Tjarutja, a corporate body established under the Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act over an area of 80 764 km2.
		Access negotiations for petroleum exploration on Pitjantjatjara and Maralinga lands are currently in progress in respect of several applications for petroleum exploration licences.
	www.pir.sa.gov.au /pages/petrol/access_land/aboriginal.htm:sectID=158&tempID=8 (1147 words)

	COAG Indigenous Trial Sites - Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands in South Australia
		The title (freehold) to the land is held by Anangu Pitjantjatjara (the AP Council), an incorporated body established under the PLR Act.
		The AP Lands are part of a much larger country of Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara (NPY) people which covers some 350,000 square kilometres of South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, and is known as the ‘cross border’ region.
		It is an indigenous owned and managed organisation and a leader in remote communications, tasked with introducing modern technology to remote Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people and communities in a way that will truly benefit Anangu and be embraced as an enhancement to the Anangu way of life.
	www.indigenous.gov.au /coag/trial_sites/sa.html (423 words)

	Diamantina Expedition to Pitjantjatjara Lands (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pitjantjatjara people traditionally ranged as far south as Ooldea Soak in the southern Great Victoria Desert, westward into Ngaanyatjara Lands near Warburton, and further north than Uluru.
		For the first time, geographically scattered Pitjantjatjara groups, formally, and of their own accord, articulated to white society that they were one people linked by law and could thus speak with one voice.
		March 1981 the Governor of South Australia consented to the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act, and the Anangu took possession of their land.
	www.diamantina-tour.com.au /dtc_web_pages/990_tours/tour_pitj.html (1130 words)

	THIS LAND IS MY LAND: Part 1 - How we occupy the earth - NI 123 - 'Every square mile is just like a book'
		A full-blood Aborigine, Whisky is a Pitjantjatjara His people are among the most culturally intact of the tribal groupings in Australia, practitioners still of laws and traditions formed over millenia They are also a formidable present-day political fighting unit.
		The Pitjantjatjara believe that in time gone by the land was plastic and the land surface merely the visible dimension of a fluid world which contained the whorls of life — the progenitors of all living things, including man.
		It was the desire for control of their land —and the threat that mining is now posing to Aboriginal land in general — that mobilised the Pitjantjatjara into a land-rights struggle.
	www.newint.org /issue123/square.htm (1078 words)

	Renewable Energy Commercialisation in Australia - Solar Photovoltaic Projects - A 220kw solar power station for the ...
		With the assistance of a $1 million grant under the Renewable Energy Commercialisation Program, the Pitjantjatjara Council Inc. and the South Australian Division of State Aboriginal Affairs are building a unique solar power station for the Anangu Pitjantjatjara lands.
		As the lead grantee, the Pitjantjatjara Council Projects Department has contracted a Melbourne-based company, Solar Systems Pty Ltd, to construct the power station, which consists of ten CS500 dishes connected to a mini-grid servicing a number of communities.
		Pitjantjatjara Council Projects and its partners also think that the skills they develop through this project will improve their overall ability to serve their clients.
	www.greenhouse.gov.au /renewable/recp/pv/nine.html (705 words)

	Churchinperth.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A serious situation has developed in the Pitjantjatjara Lands in the north of South Australia, whereby sorcery is being directed, or planned to be directed, against Christians in community leadership because of a Land Council demarcation dispute.
		Prior to the passing of SA Land Rights legislation in recent years, issues relating to the Pitjantjatjara lands were handled by the Pitjantjatjara Council.
		Under this new legislation an organisation called Anangu Pitjantjatjara was set up as the peak controlling body on the Pitjantjatjara lands.However the various resource departments remained subject to the direction of a streamlined board which retained the old Pitjantjatjara Council name.
	www.churchinperth.com /site/adetails.asp?ArticleID=485 (552 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Mulga Throwing Club (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This item is a, curved and slender Pitjantjatjara throwing stick "club" with nice petina, deep groove longitudinal fluting over the entire surface, except for the hand grip which has cross hatch fluting.
		This club is Pitjantjatjara and is quite old, probably made in late 19th or early 20th century.
		It is nearly perfect and without flaw except for a few minor natural wood defects.
	www.flight-toys.com /artifacts/gh32.html (89 words)

	Ngapartji Ngapartji - Arts Reviews - Arts - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		At first sight it seems to wander in and out of a half-a-dozen stories, but the kernel of this organic growth is a tale of social injustice and displacement.
		He and a mixed-race cast explore history from an Aboriginal perspective, beginning with the advent of the British colonisers through the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima to the atom bomb tests conducted by Perfidious Albion in the Central Desert from 1953 until 1965.
		What is happening is the destruction of Pitjantjatjara traditional homelands, their continuing displacement and the official condoning of the deaths of uncounted numbers of indigenous people either from the resulting fallout on their traditional land or from the subsequent cancers.
	www.theage.com.au /news/arts-reviews/ngapartji-ngapartji/2006/10/16/1160850841302.html (502 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:pjt
		Pitjantjatjara Freehold lands, northwest South Australia, surrounding areas, and Yalata.
		Wangka wiru: a handbook for the Pitjantjatjara language learner.
		Review of: Categories, constituents and constituent order in Pitjantjatjara: an aboriginal language of Australia, by Heather J. Bowe.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=pjt (102 words)

	Ngapartji Ngapartji
		According to the 2005 National Indigenous Languages Survey, the situation of Australia’s indigenous languages is ‘very grave and requires urgent action’ and Australia has been identified as the place with the most rapid and widespread loss of Indigenous languages anywhere in the world over the last one hundred years.
		Young Pitjantjatjara speakers are building this course from the ground up, with the support of ongoing workshops coordinated by artists and community workers.
		Your journey into Pitjantjatjara culture and language is made through short films or songs that have been produced by community members and artists.
	ninti.ngapartji.org (957 words)

	COAG Indigenous Trial Sites - Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands in South Australia
		The title (freehold) to the land is held by Anangu Pitjantjatjara (the AP Council), an incorporated body established under the PLR Act.
		The AP Lands are part of a much larger country of Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara (NPY) people which covers some 350,000 square kilometres of South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, and is known as the ‘cross border’ region.
		It is an indigenous owned and managed organisation and a leader in remote communications, tasked with introducing modern technology to remote Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people and communities in a way that will truly benefit Anangu and be embraced as an enhancement to the Anangu way of life.
	www.icc.gov.au /coag/trial_sites/sa.html (423 words)

	Ngapartji Ngapartji - Perth International Arts Festival 2007
		Performers, including Elders and young people from the Pitjantjatjara community, tell the story of Trevor Jamieson and his family, an epic account spanning five countries and five decades.
		Performed partly in Pitjantjatjara language, as well as English, Japanese, Hazari and Greek, the performance is at times intense, revealing and confronting.
		Hear David Bowie and David Byrne songs in Pitjantjatjara and experience a language and culture in ways that are palya (fine/OK) for a non-Pitjantjatjara audience to understand.
	www.perthfestival.com.au /index.cfm/layout/css/index.cfm/fuseaction/presscentre.intro/layout/css/layout/css/index.cfm?go=events.view&Category=theatre&Event=ngapartji (211 words)

	HREOC Website: Social Justice Report 2003
		By identifying petrol sniffing as an 'Indigenous problem' it has also been marginalised as a policy issue, with the result that it has not received the attention and resourcing that it may have if it had been positioned within mainstream substance misuse policy frameworks.
		In September 2002, the South Australian Coroner brought down his findings in the inquests into the deaths of three Anangu who were chronic petrol sniffers and lived on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands (AP Lands) of South Australia.
		Data collected in 2000 indicates that, despite an overall decline in the 1990s, the number of people engaged in petrol sniffing on the AP Lands has begin to increase in recent years.
	www.hreoc.gov.au /social_justice/sjreport03/media/summary_six.htm (584 words)

	The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod:
		When recently reporting about the Pitjantjatjara translation and literacy program he shared, “A milestone was reached when Roy Yaltjanki was ordained in his home community of Docker River before a congregation of more than 200 people.
		Having had very little schooling, he remarkably learned to read when he was 60 years old using the Pitjantjatjara Shorter Bible as his main text.
		He began theological training with the Finke River Mission soon after, and during the next five years, the Holy Spirit readied him to be the pastor at Docker River.
	www.lcms.org /pages/print.asp?print=1&NavID=6103&path=%2Fpages%2Finternal%2Easp (462 words)

	Melbourne International Arts Festival: Events: Ngapartji Ngapartji (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Using ‘puntu’ (body), ‘inma’ (song) and ‘tjukurpa’ (story) and performed in Pitjantjatjara, English, Japanese, Hazari and Greek, Ngapartji Ngapartji explores the impact of the Cold War on the 20th century through the prism of Trevor’s family experience in the South Australian desert.
		The performance strikes a delicate balance between the familiar – with David Bowie and David Byrne songs in Pitjantjatjara – and the startlingly unfamiliar with a powerful language and culture revealed in ways that are ‘palya’ (fine/OK) for a non-Pitjantjatjara audiences to experience.
		In this world first, you are invited to build relationships with the cast and community through a generous exchange of language, either before seeing the show, or in response to it.
	www.melbournefestival.com.au /events/view-production/more-detail/68/2819/ngapartji-ngapartji/detail.aspx (401 words)

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