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Author Pascoe, Bruce, 1947- author.

Title Young dark emu : a truer history / Bruce Pascoe
Published Broome : Magabala Books, 2019
Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (41 p.)
Contents Introduction -- One - The land grab -- Two - Agriculture -- Three - Aquaculture -- Four - Home -- Five - Food storage -- Six - Fire -- Sacred places -- Sustainable futures -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index -- About the author
Summary Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived - a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent. Young Dark Emu - A Truer History asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia's history pre-European colonisation
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Land use, Rural -- Australia -- Juvenile literature
Australia -- History -- Juvenile literature
History - Cultural
Fishing - Fish traps
Food - Food shortages
Environment - Land management
Colonisation
Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Fruit and vegetable
Food - Plants - Yams
Food - Preparation
Habitation - Villages
Food - Plants - Seeds / Flour
Literature and stories - Juvenile
Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities.
Hunting and gathering societies.
Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781925768824
1925768821