SharingStories Languages vs Nyiyaparli Flora

The SharingStories Language Lightbox iOS Application is a community owned and controlled, login, modular based, audio-visual language repository developed and implemented with the Paakantji community of NSW but designed for scalability and adaptation by other communities. The Language Lightbox is available to communities for use in recording, documenting and holding their own languages. The tool also includes functionality which allows for links to relevant interactive cultural material relating to language words and can be shared and populated across satellite communities connected to the Language and Culture hubs. To implement the Language Lightbox in your community, please contact SharingStories Foundation info@sharingstories.com.au The Language Lightbox build was funded by the Ministry of the Arts’ Indigenous Language Support (ILS). This tool has been developed for SharingStories by The Project Factory, an award winning digital production company.

IMPORTANT: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this app may contain the names, images, video or audio-visual recordings of people who have passed away. Jirntalpa Karnti (Nyiyaparli Flora) is a collaborative project between the Nyiyaparli people and Roy Hill. The project, at its heart, is an important ethnobotanical cultural heritage study documenting important cultural knowledge and showcasing much of the diverse flora that exists on Nyiyaparli Country and the surrounding Fortescue Marsh in the Eastern Pilbara region of Western Australia. Today, 300 Nyiyaparli people live on Ngurrara (Country) which extends from the eastern Pilbara region of Western Australia to the Western Desert, maintaining cultural knowledge and their way of life. In this app, we share some of this knowledge, explaining how Nyiyaparli people utilise different plants to create objects, heal illness, cook and maintain culture. Jirntalpa Karnti has also been published as a hard copy book.