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Title Warlpiri karnta karnta-kurlangu yimi = Warlpiri women's voices : our lives, our history / stories told by Molly Nungarrayi ... [and others] ; compiled and edited by Petronella Vaarzon-Morel
Published Alice Springs, N.T. : IAD Press, 1995
Alice Springs, N.T. : IAD Press, 1995

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 W'PONDS  306.0899915 Nun/Wkk  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 118 pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits, photographs ; 26 cm
Series Oral history series
Oral history series (Alice Springs, N.T.)
Contents 1. We hold our country eternally -- 2. Hunting and gathering -- 3. Keeping track of family -- 4. Ceremony: following the Jukurrpa -- 5. Health: looking after each other -- 6. Giving birth using bush medicine -- 7. Childhood: how they grew us up -- 8. A tree burial -- 9. Marrying the proper way -- 10. A jealous fight -- 11. Singing her man -- 12. Passing through: Harry Henty -- 13. A whitefella comes to stay: Nugget Morton -- 14. Conflict at Yurrkuru (Brookes Soak) -- 15. Trouble at Boomerang Hole -- 16. A shooting at Liirlpari (Whitestone) -- 17. The massacres -- 18. Shooting us like bullocks -- 19. Fleeing into the sandhills -- 20. Coming back from ceremony -- 21. Some didn't come back -- 22. After the massacres -- 23. Hiding from those with no human feelings -- 24. How we hid when I was a girl -- 25. Staying in our country -- 26. Still trying to force us out -- 27. More whitefellas and cattle -- 28. Life goes on -- 29. Working as 'stockmen' -- 30. Still dreaming about horses: Kitty Napangardi, stockwoman -- 31. Army time -- 32. The first time we saw an aeroplane -- 33. Ration time -- 34. Working for station rations -- 35. The ration store -- 36. Rations, dingo scalping and welfare -- 37. When we first used money -- 38. School time -- 39. On travelling through country: from foot to motorcar -- 40. Talking hard for our land -- 41. From generation to generation
Notes Text in English and Warlpiri
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-118) and glossary
Notes Text in English and Warlpiri
Subject Aborigines, Australian -- Women -- Northern Territory
Aborigines, Australian -- Women -- Northern Territory -- Biography
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Northern Territory
Aborigines, Australian -- Northern Territory -- Women -- Biography
Aborigines, Australian -- Northern Territory -- Women
Aborigines, Australian -- Northern Territory -- Treatment
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Women -- Northern Territory -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Women -- Northern Territory
Walbiri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs
Walbiri (Australian people) -- Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Treatment
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Women -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Women
Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Northern Territory
Women, Warlpiri -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography
Women, Warlpiri -- History
Women, Warlpiri -- Rites and ceremonies
Tales -- Australia -- Northern Territory
Warlpiri language -- Texts
Aboriginal Australians -- Women -- Australia -- Northern Territory
Aboriginal Australians -- Women -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography
Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Rites and ceremonies
Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs
Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Social conditions
Walbiri (Australian people) -- Rites and ceremonies
Warlpiri (Australian people)
Language - Vocabulary - Place names.
Hunting, gathering and fishing.
Land rights - Claims, disputes, hearings.
Education - Schools.
Land rights - Pastoral industry.
Language - English - Aboriginal English.
Defence - Armed forces - Veterans.
Race relations - Violent.
Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Tree and platform burial.
Language - Aboriginal English.
Language - Vocabulary - Word lists.
Government policy - Assimilation.
Language - Vocabulary - Plant names.
Reproduction - Childbirth.
Occupations - Pastoral industry workers.
Social behaviour - Socialisation - Child rearing.
Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Beef cattle.
History - Oral history.
Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
Lander Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF53-05)
Warlpiri language C15.
Femmes walbiri -- Biographies.
Femmes walbiri -- Rites et cérémonies.
Warlpiri (peuple d'Australie) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
Contes australiens.
Tales.
Warlpiri language.
Women, Warlpiri.
Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs.
Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Social conditions.
Warlpiri (Australian people)
Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Wirliatjarra / Willowra (Central NT Tanami Desert SF53-05)
Walbiri.
Northern Territory.
Genre/Form Biography.
History.
Texts.
Biographies.
Author Vaarzon-Morel, Petronella, editor, compiler.
Nungarrayi, Molly, author.
Institute for Aboriginal Development (Alice Springs, N.T.)
LC no. 95197226
ISBN 0949659754 (paperback)
9780949659750 (paperback)
Other Titles Warlpiri women's voices
Warlpiri women's voices