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Title Yijarni : true stories from Gurindji country / edited by: Erika Charola and Felicity Helen Meakins
Published Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2016
© 2016

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits, facsimiles
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Before the arrival of Europeans -- 3. The killing times -- 4. Malyalyimalyalyi/Lipanangku: The first Wave Hill Station -- 5. Jinparrak: The second site for Wave Hill Station -- 6. The Wave Hill settlement -- 7. Early policemen and trackers
Summary On 23 August 1966, approximately 200 Gurindji stockmen and their families walked off Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, protesting against poor working conditions and the taking of their land by pastoralists. Led by Vincent Lingiari, this land-mark action in 1966 precipitated the equal wages case in the pastoral industry and the establishment of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. While it is well known that the Walk Off was driven by the poor treatment of Aboriginal workers, what is less well known is the previous decades of massacres and killings, stolen children and other abuses by early colonists as well as (some) classic pre-contact stories. Told in both English and Gurindji these compelling and detailed oral accounts of the events that Gurindji elders either witnessed or heard from their parents and grandparents, will ignite the interest of audiences nationally and internationally and challenge revisionist historians who question the extent of frontier battles and the legitimacy of the Stolen Generations
Analysis Australian
Notes "Historical accounts by Dandy Danbayarri, Ronnie Wavehill, Violet Wadrill, Banjo Ryan, Biddy Wavehill Yamawurr, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Peanut Pontiari, Maurie Ryan, Vincent Lingiari, Jimmy Manngayarri, Blanche Bulngari and Pincher Nyurrmiari"--Title page
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index
Notes © Gurindji people 2016
Text in English and Gurindji language
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 12, 2017)
Subject Gurindji (Australian people) -- Northern Territory -- Wave Hill Station -- Treatment of
Gurindji (Australian people) -- Northern Territory -- Wave Hill Station -- History
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- Northern Territory
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- History
Strikes and lockouts -- Northern Territory -- Wave Hill Station -- Cattle trade
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory
Gurindji (Australian people) -- History
Waringari language (A63) (WA SF52-02)
Waringari people (A63) (WA SF52-02)
Gurindji people (C20) (NT SE52-08)
Occupations - Pastoral industry workers.
Law enforcement - Police trackers.
Ceremonies - Rain making.
History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies.
Indigenous knowledge - Tracking.
Law enforcement - Police - Native police.
Stories and motifs - Mermaids.
Land rights - Pastoral industry.
Land rights - Land acquisition.
Sites - Historical.
Art - Painting.
Settlement and contacts - Afghans.
Social behaviour - Violence.
Ceremonies - Initiation.
Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations.
Social identity - Mixed descent.
Settlement and contacts - Resettlement and removals.
Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - 1901-
Food - Bush tucker.
Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European.
Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900.
Literature and stories.
Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Beef cattle.
Environment - Climate and weather - Floods.
Buildings - Public - Police stations.
Feuds and warfare.
HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
Art, Aboriginal Australian
Gurindji (Australian people)
Jurlakkula / Nero Yard (Central NT SE52-08)
Murntuluk / Catfish (Central NT, North NT SE52-03)
Mangurlu / Seale Yard (Central NT SE52-08)
Yurruj (Central NT SE52-08)
Croker Island (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
Limbunya (Central NT SE52-07)
Jinparrak (Central NT SE52-08)
Victoria River Downs (North NT SE52-04)
Victoria River (North NT SD52, SE52)
Timber Creek (North NT Victoria River SD52-15)
Seales Gorge (Central NT SE52-08)
Daguragu / Kalkaringi / Wave Hill (Central NT SE52-08)
Wirrilu / Blackfella Creek (Central NT, North NT SE52-03)
Tartarr / Blackfellows Knob (Central NT SE52-03)
Ngima / Neave River Junction (Central NT SE52-08)
Waniyi (Central NT SE52-08)
Bow Hills (Central NT SE52-08)
Northern Territory
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Charola, Erika, editor
Meakins, Felicity, editor
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, issuing body.
ISBN 9781925302035
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