Bernard Rooney Bernard Rooney i(A124518 works by)
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2 y separately published work icon The Way of the Boorna Waangki : A Tale of Cultural Endurance Bernard Rooney , Northcote : Abbey Press , 2014 9015233 2014 single work biography

The way of the Boorna-Waangki is a true tale of cultural endurance. Through the lived experiences of elders like Edward Mippy, the story takes its readers northwards; from their Peel Inlet to colonial Perth and from the Swan River country to the settlements of the Victoria Plains-unfolding as it goes a fascinating narrative of continuing Aboriginal identity
1 1 y separately published work icon Nyoongar Dictionary Bernard Rooney , Batchelor : Batchelor Press , 2011 Z1819604 2011 reference 'The book includes a comprehensive dictionary of the Nyoongar language focusing on what is now known as the northern dialect. Divided into two sections, Nyoongar­English and English­Nyoongar, the dictionary is the result of the author’s own grass­roots experience of Nyoongar as a spoken language and offers the fruits of his extensive research into the available written sources. These sources include published dictionaries as well as unpublished word­lists dating back to the foundation of the colony of Western Australia.' Sourec: http://batchelorpress.com/ (Sighted 28/10/2011).
1 1 y separately published work icon The Nyoongar Legacy : The Naming of the Land and the Language of Its People Bernard Rooney , Batchelor : Batchelor Press , 2011 Z1819598 2011 reference

'This book has a lexicon of over 300 meanings of Aboriginal place names in Perth and Western Australia's south-west from Geraldton to Esperance - places which have retained the names given by Aboriginal people long before Anglo-European settlement. There is also an extensive introduction to the Nyoongar people.

The book also includes a comprehensive dictionary of the Nyoongar language as an aid to restoring and renewing the language. "Nyoongar was traditionally a purely oral language," said Abbot Bernard, "and there are very few people today who speak it fluently. It is in real danger of disappearing and needs to be actively promoted." He explained that, while there are Nyoongar dictionaries already available, they lack uniformity and a consistent spelling system.

Working together during the 1980s, representatives of the south-west Indigenous people, university linguists and Abbot Bernard created an authorised system of spelling known as the Marribank orthography. The Nyoongar Legacy employs this and provides one of the most comprehensive and 'user friendly' dictionaries of the language yet published.' Source: www.newnorcia.wa.edu.au/ (Sighted 28/10/2011)
1 y separately published work icon The Legacy of the Late Edward Mippy : An Ethnographic Biography Bernard Rooney , Perth : 2003 Z1597514 2003 single work thesis 'Cast in the dual genre of ethnographic biography, this thesis is focused on the life, work and vision of the late Edward Mippy, an Aboriginal Elder of the Yuat Nyoongara Community who devoted the latter years of his life to promoting and developing the cultural identity of his people. As biography, it portrays the life of Edward Mippy with particular emphasis on the factors which help to highlight his understandings and his vision for an Indigenous cultural renewal. As ethnography, the study is intended as a vehicle for wider concerns, evoking an interpretative glimpse of his community and contributing a new perspective of that community as a continuing social entity' Source: Thesis Abstract (Sighted 11/06/2009)
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