About the Author

Erika Charola is an ESL teacher and consultant linguist who began working with Indigenous people in the Victoria River District (Northern Territory) twenty years ago. She has also undertaken extensive documentation of Gurindji stories, which form the basis for this book. Felicity Meakins is a Senior Research Fellow in linguistics at the University of Queensland. She specialises in the documentation of Australian languages in the Victoria River District (Northern Territory). During the past 15 years she has worked as a community linguist and academic, facilitating language revitalisation programs, consulting on native title claims and conducting research into Indigenous languages.