The College of Aboriginal Education was founded by Gladys Elphick in 1973.
[1][2] It was renamed to Tauondi Aboriginal College to honour the traditional owners of the Adelaide Plains, the Kaurna people.
In Kaurna, tauondi means to "penetrate and break through”.
[3] In 1996, this college, along with four others, founded the Federation of Independent Aboriginal Education Providers.
[2] It teaches Aboriginal languages, including Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri.