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1 'Yuta Gonydjuy' : The 'New Wax' Warramiri Yolnju Parable as Transculturation Literature and 'Lonydju'yirr Literacy' at 'Gawa' Ben Van Gelderen , Kathy Guthadjaka , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 54 no. 1 2019; (p. 30-42)

''Yuta Gonydjuy (The New Wax)' is a children's story written by Kathy Guthadjaka, an Indigenous Elder from Gawa, Elcho Island, northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. 'Yuta Gonydjuy' has been illustrated and published in both Warramiri and English via the bilingual Literature Production Centre at Galiwin'ku, in 1998. There is also a digital, interactive version of the story, and it is available online (as alphabetic text only) as part of the 'Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages' (2015). 'Yuta Gonydjuy' is an allegorical parable with both traditional Yolnju and Christian themes, and considering the 'transculturation' history and ontological priorities of the Warramiri Yoltu, 'Yuta Gonydjuy' is a most appropriate text. Furthermore, the potential for 'Yuta Gonydjuy' to be utilised within a 'Lonydju'yirr' (aligning side-by-side) multiliteracy approach at Gawa is compelling and offers fresh insight into a generative, 'bothways' Yoltu pedagogy.'

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1 Designing the Warramiri Website: A Bala-Räli Bothways Duoethnography from the Yolηu Homeland of Gäwa. Kathy Guthadjaka , Ben Van Gelderen , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2019; (p. 19-40)

'Technologies play an important role in the intergenerational transmission of Yolηu languages and culture, but can digital development incorporate Yolηu cosmological and epistemological frameworks? Despite the pressures of an increasingly standardised Australian Curriculum, the Yolηu Indigenous Warramiri community at Gäwa in remote Northern Territory continues to pursue an 'on country' homeland and intercultural 'bothways' philosophy of education. In this paper, we outline some of the bala-räli (backwards and forwards) discussions and negotiations from 2009-15, as a form of duoethnography that culminated in the design of the Warramiri website to support such a bothways philosophy.' (Author's abstract)
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