ISBN:
9781921064838
Language:
English
Pages:
319 S.
,
Ill.
,
22 cm
Edition:
Reprint.
DDC:
305.899150922
Keywords:
Aboriginal Australians / Biography
;
Aboriginal Australians / Social conditions
;
Aboriginal Australians / Social life and customs
;
Brauchtum
;
Soziale Situation
;
Alltag
;
Aborigines
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Aborigines
;
Brauch
;
Alltagskultur
;
Aborigines
;
Biografie
;
Aborigines
;
Brauch
;
Alltagskultur
Abstract:
"Aboriginal people are familiar with the power of story. Our culture is shaped around stories, our history transmitted through them. Stories spoken from the heart hold a transformational power, they are a way for one heart to speak to another. They are a means of sharing knowledge, experience and emotion. A story spoken from the heart can pierce you, become a part of you and change the way you see yourself and the world. Listening to a heart story is a way of showing respect, a silent acknowledgement of what the speaker has lived through and where they have come from. Stories can also transform the speaker. Sharing the past can ease old pains, soothe deep hurts and remind you of old joys, hopes and dreams. (From the introduction). Eighteen Aboriginal Australians from across the country each share a powerful story which is central to their own lives, and/or to their family, community or country. Stories which provide readers with a very personal picture of the history, culture and contemporary experience of Aboriginal Australia." - publishers description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction: Listening Through the Heart / Blaze Kwaymullina -- Keeping a Family Together / Lena Crabbe -- Under a Blue Gum Tree / Patrick Sullivan Hume -- The Perils of Beryl / Beryl Dixon -- The Spirit Has More Strength / Ken Colbung -- My Mother, My Daughter / Joan Winch -- A Nyungar is Battling / Cuimara Ben Taylor -- Her Spirit Could Not Be Broken / MaryAnn Bin-Sallik -- Show Respect / Phil Prosser -- Joining My Identity Pieces Together / Violet Bacon -- For Billy, Maude and Dick / Bill Jonas -- Don't Cage Me In / Sally Morgan -- Don't Change the Landscape. Change Yourself / Noel Nannup -- Boorn - Taproot / Tjalaminu Mia -- Diamantina Crocodiles and Pelican Dreaming / Bill Harrison -- Walk Tall, Walk Straight and Look the Whole / Lynette Rodriguez -- World in the Eye: The Story of Richard Shadforth / Lynette Rodriguez
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