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Laurie Baymarrwangga (Gawany) Baymarrwaŋa was born (circa 1920) on Murruŋga Island (largest of the outer Crocodile Islands of North-East Arhnem Land, in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia.〔James 2012: 12-13At Home on the Waves: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today. Fish Traps of the Crocodile Islands. Berghahn Books, New York (In press).〕 Laurie was the Senior Aboriginal Traditional Owner of the Malarra estate, which includes Galiwin’ku, Dalmana, Murruŋga, Brul-brul and the Ganatjirri Maramba Salt Water surrounding the islands and inclusive of some 300 other named sites.〔Charles Darwin Climate change symposium, Adaptation Around the Crocodile Islands, Dr Bentley James: Senior Linguist – Crocodile Islands Rangers, Murruŋga Island, Arnhem Land N. T. 2011.〕 She devoted her life to the intergenerational transmission of the ancestral language and knowledge of her homelands on the Crocodile Islands for the benefit of future generations.〔North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Managers Alliance ("Crocodile Island Rangers" ) Nekerasov. T. 2011. Working for Culture and Country: Territory Quarterly. 2011, Chief Ministers Department.〕 ==Clan membership and cultural heritage== She is a great-great grandmother of the Malarra-Gunbiirrtji Clan, and in 2012 was reportedly 95 years old.〔"News for Seniors". Australian Government Department of Human Services. Issue 87, May 2012. p. 13〕 She spoke the Yan-nhangu language, Djambarrpuyŋu, and several other regional languages of Northeast Arnhem Land.〔B. James 2009. Time and Tide in the Crocodile Islands: Change and Continuity in Yan-nhangu Marine Identity. PhD Thesis Australian National University. Canberra.〕 She was named Senior Northern Territory Australian of the Year, and Senior Australian of the Year in 2012. Her encyclopaedic knowledge was the inspiration for an ethnographic publication〔''Time and Tide in the Crocodile Islands: Change and Continuity in Yan-nhangu Marine Identity''. James, B. 2009.〕 and a language documentation project〔http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=44〕 She was first photographed by Donald Thomson on Murrungga island in April, 1937.〔Donald Fergusson Thomson, OBE (26 June 1901 – 12 May 1970) Australian anthropologist and ornithologist.〕 She survived the World War II Japanese bombing of Milingimbi in 1943.〔Conflict and Conciliation Across Empires: Objects and Performances in Historical Perspective; University of Melbourne Laurie Baymarrwangga, Bentley James & Jane Lydon: ‘The ‚Myalls’ Ultimatum‛: Photography, Diplomacy and Reconciliation’ 17–18 November 2011 (Pdf document )〕 In the 1960s she began a return to her island homeland at Murruŋga, becoming permanently resident in the 1970s.〔Submission to the Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Those who have cut out the people’s tongue reproach them for their dumbness: The Yan-nhangu Dictionary project 1994-2011-“LANGUAGE LEARNING IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES. (19.8.11)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laurie Baymarrwangga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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