Buckskin

Jack Buckskin is the teacher of an endangered language From the northern Adelaide suburb of Salisbury Jacks mission is to teach the Kaurna language the language of his ancestors to as many people as he can in his lifetime But this is not easy The language was driven to near extinction over a century ago Now Jack and fellow language speakers are sculpting a new Kaurna language and culture and through that seeking to bring a new way of being to the youth of suburban Adelaide in the form of a new Aboriginal identity and with that hope