Maria Stewart

Maria Stewart is an experienced assistant teacher, who now works in the APY Regional Office, in her homelands. She is a proud mother of 3 boys and also foster carer for her nephew. Maria speaks her grandmother’s language which is spoken around the Pitjantjatjara Yankuntjatjara Lands. She grew up in Oodnadatta, SA (her Grandfather’s country). Maria translated the Honey Ant Readers into Pitjantjara and Yankunytkatjara, two Central Australian languages.