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Veronica Dobson Veronica Dobson i(A123572 works by) (a.k.a. Perrurle; Veronica Mary Dobson)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal Arrernte ; Aboriginal
(Storyteller) assertion
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BiographyHistory

Veronica Dobson is a traditional owner and respected East Arrente woman. She grew up learning from her four grandparents about culture, stories, and bushfoods. Dobson documented the intricate connection between Indigenous peoples, land, culture and identity in a paper delivered at the National Land and Sea Management Conference in Alice Springs in 2005.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2015 National NAIDOC Awards Elder of the Year (Female)
2011 Order of Australia Member of the Order of Australia (AM) For service to the Indigenous community as an Arrente elder and traditional owner, as a linguist, naturalist and ecologist, and to the preservation of Aboriginal language and culture in central Australia.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Iwenhe Tyerrtye : What It Means to Be an Aboriginal Person 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)

2011 shortlisted Territory Read Book of the Year Chief Minister's Book of the Year Award
2011 winner Territory Read Book of the Year Non-fiction
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