Established in 2007 by Aboriginal writers and scholars, BlackWords is a digital humanities online literature resource devoted to the creative writing and oral storytelling of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. In 2013, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) began a major new project in BlackWords: 'An academically rigorous vehicle for the researching and teaching of Aboriginal literature and orature, the value of BlackWords lies in the great cultural and political importance of the literature emergent since the 1960s, and in the central role storytelling has for millennia played in traditionally oral Aboriginal cultures...'
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