Margaret Kemarre Turner Margaret Kemarre Turner i(A123574 works by) (a.k.a. Mary Turner)
Born: Established: 1938 Harts Range / Atitjera, South East Northern Territory, Southern Northern Territory, Northern Territory, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Akarre
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1 form y separately published work icon Amiwarre Milky Way Margaret Kemarre Turner , James Balfour , Rita Cattoni , ( dir. Kiara Bailey ) Alice Springs : ICTV , 2018 13858481 2018 single work film/TV Indigenous story children's

In this episode of Our Bedtime Stories, Margaret MK Kemarre Turner tells the Story of the Milky Way in Arrernte with leaf puppets.

 

1 "I Never Used to Get Any Money" Margaret Kemarre Turner , 2016 single work extract
— Appears in: Land Rights News , November vol. 6 no. 3 2016; (p. 28)
'At the station [Mount Riddock], I was a child minder. I used to look after the children of the two managers. ...'
1 5 y separately published work icon Iwenhe Tyerrtye : What It Means to Be an Aboriginal Person Margaret Kemarre Turner , Barry McDonald , Jill Walsh (editor), Margaret Kemarre Turner (translator), Veronica Dobson (translator), Alice Springs : IAD Press , 2010 Z1695094 2010 selected work life story

'Margaret Kemarre Turner OAM is a proud mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. These responsible relationships are her primary motivation to document for younger Aboriginal people, alongside her student and alere Barry McDonald Perrurle, her cultured understanding of the deep and interwining roots that hold all Australian Aboriginal people: Because if people like me and the other grandmothers we don't teach them now, then they probably won't get much more chances to learn.

'Margaret Kemarre Turner was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1997, 'for service to the Aboriginal community of Central Australia, particularly through preserving language and culture, and interpreting'. With Iwenhe Tyerrtye, Margaret Kemarre lays the knowledge foundations for an enhanced and extended dialogue, so that 'two cultures can hold each other':

'You've gotte talk, and really analyse words...to really get a full meaning of it... You cannot say anything without doing that...And that's how many, many things we as Aboriginal people have never described. Because it's really hard to describe to others the picture that we've got in our head. If they can't see that good picture, then there's no answer. Sometimes non-Aboriginal people go away with no answer then, and we're left with no answer as well.

'Margaret Kemarre's knowledge comes through her own Akarre language, though it is in Arrernte that she shares this generous giving of her profound world view. The translations between Arrernte and English are facilitated through the respectful relationship she shares with her niece, Veronica Perrurle Dobson.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)

1 y separately published work icon Bush Foods : Arrernte Foods of Central Australia Nhenhe-areye Anwerne-arle Arlkweme Margaret Kemarre Turner , Shawn Dobson , John Henderson , Alice Springs : IAD Press , 1996 Z1587232 1996 single work single work life story information book

Margaret Kemarre Turner OAM, a respected Arrernte woman shares the intimate knowledge of the country showing how Aboriginal people obtain food from an arid environment.

Source: http://shopping.iad.edu.au/store/viewItem.shop?idProduct=66 (Sighted 11/05/2009)

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