Collection 2: Ruby Langford Ginibi further papers, 1973-2001

MLMSS 8856

sub-fonds

1973-2001

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories, Clippings

421455

1 metre of textual material (6 boxes)

Ruby Langford Ginibi (1934-2011) is an award-winning Aboriginal author and an elder of the Bundjalung people of northern NSW. She was born on a mission in the Northern NSW town of Coraki. After being abandoned by her mother at the age of six, she moved to Sydney at the age of fifteen.

She first began writing in 1984 and is the author of four books and numerous essays and articles. She received several awards for her writings including Honourary Doctorate from the La Trobe University 1998 and Southern Cross University 2010. Her books ‘Real Deadly’, ‘My Bundjalung People’ and ‘Haunted by the Past’ won numerous literary awards. She was most famous for her novel ‘Don’t Take Your Love to Town’, which explored the racism she experienced and her children’s dealings with the criminal justice system.

Reference:
Library Correpsondence file

Includes correspondence mainly from students, academics, publishers and cultural organisations; drafts of speeches and short articles; papers concerning her book 'Haunted by the Past: Nobby's Story'; audio cassettes of interviews of, and readings by Ginibi.

BOX 1
1. Letters received from Christine Watson with enclosed transcripts of interview with RLG and Penny Van Toorn, 1998-1999
2. Letters received from Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, with copy of RLG's review of Faces of Mandurama, 7 May 1999 and draft of RLG's review of the issue of ANZJA, volume 14 no.1, 1998-2000
3. Letters received from Kerry, Kuracca Consultancy, 24 June 2000, regarding publication of The Strength of Us as Women : Black Women Speak
4. Newscuttings mainly regarding Aboriginal people and issues, 1999
5. Letters received from Robert Jackson ( English teacher ), Cabramatta High School, enclosing a student's essay, 1999
6. Letters received from Lyn Leerson, Aboriginal History Project for Parramatta Local Government Area Working Party, 6 February 2000, with enclosures regarding Reconciliation for Western Sydney
7. Letters received from Suvendri Perera, 21 January 1999, with enclosed AIATSIS Grant Application Form
8. Letters received Janine Little regarding to job application at FAIRA, 2 February 1999
9. Letters received from, among others, Gerry Turcotte, 23 March [ 1999 ? ]; Inner West Greens, 22 June 1999; Mary A. Royston, Honorable Secretary, West of the Range Historical Society, 18 June 1999; invitations to launching of RLG's book, Haunted by the Past, at Blackbooks, Gelebe, 5 July 1999; and cancelled Commonwealth Bank pass books ( 2 ), 1996-1998
10. Letters received from James Wilson-Millers, Curator, Koori History and Culture, Powerhouse Museum, 20 May 1998 & 3 June 1998 and Suvendri Perara, 26 November [1998]
11. Greeting cards received from Maia Russell, 7 June 1999 and Meredith Curnow, 1999
12. Draft essay ' Dreaming is the first formation by RLG, 11 August 1998
13. Papers, including RLG's speech regarding launching of Language comes to School : Promoting Literacy among Speakers of Aboriginal English and Australian Creoles, 1995
14. Finished Work , including Farewell to Allawah and My Speech for Australia Day, 1998-1999
15. Artbeat : A Newsletter from the Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, July 1999
16. Letter received from Penny van Toorn, 25 February 1999, with her paper, Aboriginal Texts and Narratives, enclosed for comment
17. Papers regarding Sydney Writers' Festival, 1999
18. Empower [New South Wales Department of Aboriginal Affairs], volume 2 issue 4, January 2000
19. Papers and letters received from, Julia Leigh, Australian Society of Authors, 26 August 1998 regarding RLG's contractual matters with Tom Thompson (ETT Imprint)
20. Papers regarding Information & Cultural Exchange including Parramatta and its launching of Artfiles 2000 : An Arts Directory for Parramatta and Holroyd Areas, 16 September 1999
21. Finished Works, including drafts of My Comeback to Tim Rowse and of letters to, among others, Nicole Berger, 28 April 1999

BOX 2
1. Letters received from Linda Westphalen, with enclosed research on the Bandjalung people and draft chapters of her thesis, 1999-2000
2. Papers, including letter received from Linda Westphalen, notes and speech for launching the Koori Section of Camphelltown Library, 16 August 1999; drafts of short works; and program of graduation ceremony, University of Wollongong, 30 September 1998, including Doctor of Creative Arts awarded to RLG's daughter, Pamela Johnston Dahl-Helm, 1995-1999
3. Typescript of Scientific Racism, 1 December 1997, a paper a by RLG, 1997
4. The Barcelona Australian, no.1, 1 May 1999
5. Papers for Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Racial Intolerance at University of Sydney, 20 February 2001- 22 February 2001; drafts of speeches and History Paper, 19 February 2000; and letter received Roberta Sykes, 13 December 2000
6. Letter received from Thomas Feerick, 25 January 2001, with enclosed copy of his article, ' The Crime of Genocide in Australia : An Exegetic Analysis, Australian International Law Journal, 2000
7. Correspondence, drafts of short works, notes and newscuttings, 1997-2001
8. Letter received from Ray Jackson, June 1999, with enclosed issues of Djadi-Dugarang : Newsletter of the Indigenous Social Justice Association, 1997-1998, with RLG's note regarding newscutting on Black Deaths in Custody, 9 November 1996
9. Writings of and notes by Roy Simon, 1984-2000
10. Copy of New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council memorandum regarding Valla Park Policy Conference, 10 February 1992 - 14 February 1992
11. Papers including correspondence, being mainly letters received, with among others, New England Regional Art Museum, 2000

BOX 3
1. Papers including correspondence, being mainly letters received, with among others, Linda Westphalen, 1999;
2. Letter received from Suvendri Perera, 2000 with enclosed copy of her Conference paper on RLG's books, delievered at ANU, 27 April 2000
3. Letter received from Felicity Castagna, 19 January 2000, with enclosures of Growing Strong [ Sydney University Women's publication ], 1996, 1997
4. Folder of short story titles and notes; letter of agreement with Landdowne Publishing, 12 October 1994, regarding contribution to the book Aboriginal Heritage; letter received from Lyndel Robb, Administrator, Aboriginal Islander Commission, National Council of Churches in Australia, 18 September 1995
5. Printed material mainly from New South Wales Community Arts Association, 2000
6. Electronic format material : CD Rom : Moorditj : Australian Indigenous Cultural Expressions, 1998
7. Appointments Diaries, 1998-1999
8. Correspondence, being mainly letters received, with, among others, Alison Neville, 24 April 2001 with her enclosed review of RLG's book, Hunted by the Past;

BOX 4
1.Stories and Secrets by Janice Conway
2.Printed material, including State Funeral of Dr. Charles Nelson Perrule Perkins AO (1936-2000) and issues of ATSIC News, 1998-1999
3.Papers regarding Haunted by the Past : Nobbe's Story, including original draft, research material, correspondence with University of Queensland Press, 1995 and Allen & Unwin, 1999, letters received from RLG's sons, Gordon Allan Landford and Lindsay Johnson, and illustrated material including photographs for the book, ca.1980-2000

BOX 5
1. Papers regarding Only Gammon ' Not Real ', ( A Book of Koori humor hitting back at the stereotyped jokes made up about Aboriginal Australians, the first peoples of this land, being mainly newscuttings and photocopies, 1990-2000
2. Newscuttings mainly regarding Aboriginal issues and Issues of Aboriginal newspapers, being mainly Koori Mail, 1997-2000

BOX 6
1. Photocopies of books : George Farwell, Squatter's Castle, The Story of a Pastoral Dynasty : Life and Times of Edward David Stewart Ogilvie, 1973
2. Photocopies of books : Isabel McBryde, Aboriginal Prehistory in New England, 1974
3. Photocopies of books : Isabel McBryde (ed), Records of Times Past, 1978
4. Photocopies of books : J.S. Ryan, The Land of Ulitarra : Early Records of the Aborigines of the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales, 1988
5. Photocopies of books : Glenn Martin, Places in the Bush : A History of Kyogle to, 1988
6. Photocopies of books : Denis Byrne, Cultural Resource Overview : Aboriginal Sites in the Northern Region, New South Wales : A Report to the National Parks & Wildlife Service, May 1989

MLOH 706 /1-12
Ruby Langford Ginibi sound recordings, 1994-2000

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