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Songbook and album safeguarding Indigenous languages
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A new songbook is helping young Indigenous people build their confidence with languages.
(PR IMAGE PHOTO)A new songbook is helping young Indigenous people build their confidence with languages.
(PR IMAGE PHOTO) Credit: AAPAs an educator, Maria Marmingee Hand is always looking out for ways to help young people retain their local languages.
She's one of a group of educators, Elders, language and cultural custodians, musicians and researchers who have launched a songbook and album, using several languages of Western Australia's Kimberley region.
Published by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, the songbook will have lasting impacts for Kimberley communities to teach young people and safeguard their languages.