| Description |
127 pages, 38 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
A desert tragedy / Pat Lowe with Ngarta (Jinny) Bent -- My life in the desert / Jukuna Mona Chuguna ; translated from the Walmajarri by Eirlys Richards |
| Summary |
Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was a time of change. Desert people who had lived with little knowledge of European settlement were now moving onto cattle stations. Those left behind were vulnerable and faced unimaginable challenges. In 1961, when Jukuna leaves with her new husband, young Ngarta remains with a group of women and children. Tragedy strikes and Ngarta is forced to travel alone. Her survival depends on cunning and courage as she is pursued by two murderers in a vast unforgiving landscape. Jukuna's rich account may be the first autobiography written in an Aboriginal language. Presented in English and Walmajarri, her determination to see her language written has made her one of our most valued authors |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal women |
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Western Australia |
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Social conditions |
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Oral history |
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Biography |
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Great Sandy Desert (WA) |
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Ngarta Jinny Bent |
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Jukuna Mona Chuguna |
| Notes |
First published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press; 2003 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography |
| Notes |
Text in English and Walmajarri |
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Western Australian Premier's Book Award Shortlist 2004 (Non-Fiction) |
| Subject |
Chuguna, Jukuna Mona.
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Bent, Ngarta Jinny.
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Bent, Ngarta Jinny.
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Bent, Ngarta Jinny, 1935-2002
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Chuguna, Jukuna Mona, 1933-
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Bent, Ngarta Jinny, -2002
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Chuguna, Jukuna Mona.
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| SUBJECT |
Chuguna, Jukuna Mona. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1605541 |
| Subject |
Women, Walmajarri -- Western Australia -- Great Sandy Desert -- Biography
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Autobiographies.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Great Sandy Desert -- Painting
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Art, Aboriginal Australian.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Great Sandy Desert -- Social life and customs
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Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Great Sandy Desert
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Walmajarri (Australian people) -- Western Australia -- Great Sandy Desert -- Biography
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Walmajarri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs
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Walmajarri language -- Texts
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Walmajarri language.
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Women, Walmajarri -- Australia -- Great Sandy Desert (W.A.) -- Biography
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Walmajarri (Australian people) -- Biography
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Walmajarri (Australian people) -- History -- 20th century
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Walmajarri language A66
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Walmajarri language.
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Walmajarri (Australian people)
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Women, Walmajarri.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Sandy Desert (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000660
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| Subject |
Westaustralien.
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Aborigines.
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Western Australia -- Great Sandy Desert.
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Western Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Walmajarri language A66.
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Biography.
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History.
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Texts.
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Chuguna, Jukuna Mona, author.
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Lowe, Pat, 1941-, author
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Richards, Eirlys, author
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| LC no. |
2004445660 2004444504 |
| ISBN |
9781925360271 : |
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192536027X |
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