@johncarty77

Rethinking Australian heritage, history and museums. Head of Humanities @samuseum // Professor @uniadelaide // National Commission for UNESCO @unescoinaus

 Kaurna Country (Adelaide, SA)
samuseum.sa.gov.au/about/staff/professor-john-carty
Joined November 2014
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Kaurna leaders have built a new kind of burial ground, Wangayarta, a place to hold their repatriated ancestors. Forever. Every Australian should know about this, and the history that made it necessary ⁦@GuardianAus⁩ ⁦@PPDaley⁩ ⁦@SAMuseum⁩ theguardian.com/australia-ne…

‘It brings dignity to every one of them’: inside the reburial of Indigenous bones and restless...

Stolen, collected and traded Aboriginal remains will return to their country in South Australia. This is the story of how they were taken, and those who will bring them to rest

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“your grandfather killed my grandfather”… essential Australian reading this weekend for anybody with a heart @themonthly themonthly.com.au/issue/2022…

Yukun’s return

The historic repatriation of the remains of an Aboriginal man murdered by a white policeman at Uluru in 1934

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Aboriginal man laid to rest in moving ceremony 90 years after he was killed by police at Uluru ⁦@UniofAdelaide⁩ ⁦@SAMuseum⁩ ⁦@GuardianAus⁩ theguardian.com/australia-ne…

Aboriginal man laid to rest in moving ceremony 90 years after he was killed by police at Uluru

Family of Yukun call for government apology and compensation as university says sorry for storing remains

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Taking one of the most important stories in our culture mainstream- thanks ⁦@JessAdamson7 ⁦@SAMuseum ⁦@nativetitlesa⁩ ⁦@theTiser⁩ ⁦@UniofAdelaide⁩ adelaidenow.com.au/news/opin…
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I believe there is room in Australian hearts for the Statement from the Heart.
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Here’s a heartwarming minute to share things that are heart-breakingly longer and harder than a minute. Moments from the recent reburial of Kaurna ancestors at the Wangayarta Burial Ground. A ceremony shared with the Governor of SA, and our AG @kymaher @SAMuseum @nativetitlesa
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Today Kaurna leaders conducted the largest reburial of ancestral remains in Australian history. What a traumatic burden they have carried, and what a privilege to stand with them today to help lay some of that burden down at Wangayarta; the burial ground we built for this purpose
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John Carty retweeted
NITV@NITV28 Jun 2022
"No one is going to go there and disturb them old people, they're here to rest now," said Elder Moogy Sumner. sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2022…

Second group of Kaurna ancestral remains return to Country

The remains, held by the South Australian Museum, have been put to rest at a memorial park in Adelaide's north.

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Last year we built a burial ground with Kaurna leaders for the return of Kaurna ancestors. #Wangayarta . For everyone who is interested in #repatriation , what it means and what it takes, this video below gives a sense of what that looked and felt like… instagram.com/tv/Ceo9dTPBaJW…

John Carty (@johncarty77) • Instagram video

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"We had to create a new place to deal with our history. We had to recreate a burial ground ... so that they [the remains of Aboriginal ancestors] don't spend another 100 years on a shelf." - @johncarty77 👏👏👏
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Loving the important discussions going on at Adelaide Writers' Week in the live recording of #archivefever with @YvesRees @clareawright @johncarty77 and Jared Thomas. #adlww #peaknerd
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⁦Great to see Aboriginal art histories getting global recognition ⁦@artnet⁩ ⁦@artnetnewsfeed⁩ news.artnet.com/art-world/re…
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Such a great story, this one. Exhibition still open in South Australia. GO! (I did; it’s thrilling!) ‘Beginnings got lost’: fabled Aboriginal art on show 40 years after disappearance theguardian.com/artanddesign… @johncarty77 @SAMuseum #Balgo

‘Beginnings got lost’: fabled Aboriginal art on show 40 years after disappearance

Important paintings lay forgotten in storage since the early 80s until their discovery, muddy and mouldy, but intact

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Gorgeous story by @ToryShepherd about an incredible find. “They’d been in this time warp, this shipping container for 40 years. In a black hole. Then they’ve been spat back out by the universe.” - @johncarty77 theguardian.com/artanddesign…

‘Beginnings got lost’: fabled Aboriginal art on show 40 years after disappearance

Important paintings lay forgotten in storage since the early 80s until their discovery, muddy and mouldy, but intact

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‘Beginnings got lost’: fabled Aboriginal art on show 40 years after disappearance ⁦@GuardianAus⁩ ⁦@ToryShepherd⁩ ⁦@SAMuseum⁩ theguardian.com/artanddesign…

‘Beginnings got lost’: fabled Aboriginal art on show 40 years after disappearance

Important paintings lay forgotten in storage since the early 80s until their discovery, muddy and mouldy, but intact

theguardian.com
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700+ #SAjobs will be created as we build a new storage facility to house & protect some of #SouthAustralia's most treasured cultural works. It'll provide the space that’s needed in a temperature-controlled environment so our cultural history can be enjoyed by future generations.
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Early works have begun on a $86.5 million world-class, purpose-built storage facility that will preserve SA's important cultural collections for future generations and create more than 733 jobs over the next 3 years. Read more: bit.ly/3ssos1I @SAMuseum @agsa_adelaide
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Today, we celebrated not only the start of the construction of the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre but also its new name: Tarrkarri – Centre for First Nations Cultures >> lotfourteen.com.au/.../abori…... #AdelaideCityDeal @ausgov @sagovau
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The weight of Wangayarta - a moving inside portrait of the 24 hours (and many years) around the Kaurna reburials last week. ⁦@CityMagADL⁩ ⁦@angelaskujins⁩ ⁦@SAMuseum⁩ ⁦@marshall_steven⁩ ⁦@nativetitlesa⁩ citymag.indaily.com.au/cultu…

CityMag | InDaily, Inside South Australia

A new face will oversee matters at the SA employment tribunal when Deputy President Judge Brian Gilchrist retires next year.

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John Carty retweeted
NITV@NITV9 Dec 2021
'A place of belonging': More than 100 ancestral remains have been repatriated after a special ceremony on Kaurna Country.
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