| Description |
96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
All one race -- Let us not be bitter -- An appeal -- The curlew cried -- Sounds assail me -- Tree grave -- Dawn wail for the dead -- Dark unmarried mothers -- Not my style -- Last of his tribe -- The child wife -- The young girl Wanda -- Whynot Street -- White Australia -- Acacia Ridge -- The unhappy race -- Corroboree -- Stone Age -- Assimilation - No! -- Integration -- Yes! -- Ballad of the totems -- The teachers -- White man, dark man -- The protectors -- Intolerance -- Bwalla the hunter -- Nona -- No more boomerang -- Bora -- Aboriginal Charter of Rights -- The food gatherers -- Gifts -- A song of hope -- A look at the seventies -- Spinners -- The Woor woman -- The dawn is at hand -- Municipal gum -- My love -- Colour bar -- Tribal justice -- Artist son -- Son of mine -- Dead life -- ? -- Jarri's love song -- Community rain song -- Namatjira -- The dispossessed -- Interlude -- Understand, old one -- The bunyip -- Gooboora, the silent pol -- Cookalingee -- We are going -- United we win -- Song -- God's one mistake -- Verses -- Civilization -- Biami -- Freedom -- Return to nature -- Hope -- Racism -- I am proud -- Then and now -- Daisy Bindi -- The past -- Time is running out -- Balance |
| Summary |
First stanza: White men turn quickly the earth of Acacia Ridge Hide the evidence lying there Of the black race evicted as of old their fathers were; "Cover up the crime committed this day Call it progress the white man's way." |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: Milton, Qld.: Jacaranda, 1970 |
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RB copy - ex libris H.C. "Nugget" Coombs. Signed by author |
| Subject |
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1920-1993.
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SC Reconciliation Group
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Aboriginal Australian poetry.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Poetry.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Poetry.
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Australian poetry -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- 20th century.
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Political poetry, Aboriginal Australian
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| LC no. |
anb70161449 |
| ISBN |
0701614498 |
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9780701614492 |
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