| Description |
1 online resource (808 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Foreword; Table of Contents; The Storytellers; Preface; Aboriginal languages and kinship; List of maps; Maps; Map 1: Overview of maps; Map 2: Pastoral stations; Map 3: Storyteller journeys; Map 4: Storyteller journeys; Map 5: Storyteller journeys; Map 6: Storyteller journeys; Map 7: Alice Springs town camps; Map 8: Languages of Central Australia; Acknowledgements; Introduction; We know every rock in the country -- belonging to country; I used to follow all my old grandmothers -- life in the desert; Follow my track and you live long life -- living in the law |
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'I'm going to make a place for you' -- on the missionsAll the eyes were on the stockman -- working on pastoral stations; They stood up high and they worked for nothing -- life on the station; We were running, running, running -- killing times; 'Oh! Where you mob been come from?' -- leaving country; They gave us a tent, and tucker and sheet of iron -- 'welfare' and government settlements; A camel -- that's the winner -- on the move; We used to live in the river -- growing up in towns; 'Why are they putting us in the box?' -- taking the children away |
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I'm doing it for my grandsons -- retaining language and cultureCan't have these kids sitting in the bush under a tree all their lives -- education; Long time I've been working; One day I might do this kind of stuff -- contemporary culture; Everyone stuck together like glue -- politics; We know we belong to that land -- claiming country back; The people; Notes; Glossary; References; Credits; Copyright Page |
| Summary |
Every hill got a story is the first comprehensive history of Central Australia's Aboriginal people, as told in their own words and many languages. Nyinanyi ngurangka - being on country - is not a 'lifestyle choice' but a hard-won right, a spiritual and cultural duty, a constant battle, a source of happiness and opportunity and the meaning of life all at the same time. In this heartbreaking, funny and poignant collection, 127 eminent men and women remember surviving first contact, massacres and forced removals and resisting more than a century of top-down government policies. Their testimonies, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2018) |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Central Australia -- Biography
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Central Australia -- Social life and customs
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Aboriginal Australians
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
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Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania.
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History & Archaeology.
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| SUBJECT |
Central Australia -- History
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| Subject |
Australia -- Central Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bowman, Marg, editor, compiler
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| ISBN |
1743583419 |
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9781743583418 |
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