Title Yurrkuru (Brookes Soak) land claim / findings, recommendation and report of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner, Mr Justice Olney, to the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs and to the Administrator of the Northern Territory

Published Canberra : Australian Govt. Pub. Service, [1992] ©1992

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	KM 208.433 K1 Aus/Ylc	92/43	AVAILABLE

Description v, 30 pages : maps ; 25 cm Series Parliamentary paper ; no. 46 of 1993 Report / Aboriginal Land Commissioner ; no. 43 Australia. Office of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner. Report on Aboriginal land claim ; no. 43 Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament) ; 1993, no. 46 Report (Australia. Office of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner) ; no. 43 Summary Findings and recommendations; status of land claim; recognition of traditional ownership - Anmatyerre and Warlpiri; historical background to claim area - Yurrkuru (Brookes Soak) - Coniston Massacre; kinship and relation to the site; associated mythology - honey, women, bandicoot, goanna, moon, bird, snake, tree, frog, witchetty grub; comments on historical and commercial aspects of land claim Notes "For white Australians it [Yurrkuru] is the place where the pastoralist Fred Brookes was killed in 1928, an incident that led to the tragic events known to history as the Coniston massacre. For Anmatyerre and Warlpiri people Yurrkuru is a major sacred site ..."--p.6 At head of title: Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 Cat. no. 9219462 Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Brookes Soak (N.T.) Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Brookes Soak Region Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Brookes Soak Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Brookes Soak (N .T) Anmatyerre (Australian people) -- Genealogy. Land tenure -- Australia -- Brookes Soak (N.T.) Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Genealogy. SUBJECT Brookes Soak (N. T.) -- History Author Olney, H. W. (Howard William), 1934- Australia. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. Northern Territory. Administrator. LC no. 10074262 ISBN 0644250380

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