Leonard Collard
Born
Leonard Michael Collard

(1959-12-24) 24 December 1959 (age 64)
Pingelly, Western Australia[1]
NationalityAustralian
Alma materMurdoch University (MA 1996)[2]

Leonard Michael Collard (born 24 December 1959[3]) is a Noongar elder, professor and Australian Research Council chief investigator at the School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia.[4]

Collard is a Whadjuk/Balardong Noongar, the traditional owners of the Perth region of Western Australia. He has a background in literature and communications, and has researched areas including Noongar interpretive histories and Noongar theoretical and practical research models.[5]

In 2011 Collard started a three-year study of Noongar place names, and intends to create a public website of 25,000 Noongar words for different places around the South West of Western Australia. In 2014 he announced his project to create the world's first online Aboriginal encyclopaedia, Noongarpedia, to preserve the endangered Noongar language.[6][7]

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References

  1. ^ "Len Collard". Deadly Vibe. 30 November 2007. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  2. ^ "An Analysis of Nyungar Influence in South West Western Australia". AustLit. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Natives (Citizenship Rights) Act, 1944-1951" (PDF). Government Gazette of Western Australia. No. 104. 16 December 1960. p. 3979. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  4. ^ "Professor Leonard Collard". University of Western Australia. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Noongar Published Resources". South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  6. ^ "New media to throw a lifeline to an ancient language". University of Western Australia. 11 February 2014. Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  7. ^ Long, Katrin (13 February 2014). "WA academics develop Noongar 'Wikipedia' to help preserve language". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
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