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Author Doyle, Fiona

Title Whispers of This Wik Woman
Published Chicago : University of Queensland Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (158 pages)
Series David Unaipon Award Winners Series
David Unaipon Award Winners Series
Contents Cover; About the Author; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; POSTSCRIPT; TIME LINE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; COPYRIGHT
Summary This absorbing and personal account of Wik activist Jean George Awumpun offers a rare understanding of Aboriginal identity and traditional land. To illustrate her proud Alngith Wikwaya beginnings, Awumpun's early history is told through family member and Alngith descendant Fiona Doyle. This ancestral history combines with the story of Awumpun's struggle in the Wik native title claims, which advanced the earlier Mabo Decision onto mainland Australia. Using photographs, traditionally inspired art and language terms, Fiona Doyle invites us into the heart of Cape York's Wikwaya country
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Subject George, Jean
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Queensland -- Biography
HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
Women, Aboriginal Australian
SUBJECT Napranum (Qld.) -- Biography
Subject Queensland
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780702250521
070225052X
9780702250538
0702250538
9780702250552
0702250554