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Author Shaw, Bruce, 1941-

Title Countrymen : the life histories of four Aboriginal men as told to Bruce Shaw
Published Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1986

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 W'PONDS  994.140049915 Cou  AVAILABLE
Description x, 325 pages : illustrations, 1 genealogical table, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary Autobiographical narratives by four Miriwong men, Mandi Munniim, Jeff Djanama, Banggaldun Balmirr and Nulla Bilinggiin, each covering childhood memories, Aboriginal-European contact, station life and work, religion and the Law, magic, mythology, initiation, race relations, outstation and cattle station development, community development; also includes notes on translation and editing, synopsis of local history, biographical sketches, genealogy and glossary
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [316]-320
Notes Copy 3 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Balmir, Banggaldun
Balmirr, Banggaldun
Bilinggiin, Bulla
Djanama, Jeff
Bilinggin, Bulla
Munniim, Mandi, 1904-1978
Munniim, Mandi
Munnim, Mandi, 1904-1978
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Biography.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley Range (W.A.) -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley Region (W.A.) -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Kimberley Region, Western Australia -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley Range -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley Region -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Cattle trade -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Biography.
Cattle trade -- Australia -- Kimberley Range (W.A.) -- Biography
Cattle trade -- Kimberley Region, Western Australia -- Biography
Cattle trade -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley Range -- Biography
Cattle trade -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Biography
SUBJECT Kimberley (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82167172
Kimberley (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82167172 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Kimberley Range (W.A.) -- Biography
Kimberley Region (W.A.) -- Biography
Kimberley Region, Western Australia -- Biography
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Shaw, Bruce, 1951-
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
LC no. 87164791
ISBN 085575169X