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Nyoongar boodja koomba bardip kooratan = Nyoongar land - long story short : a history of ancient Nyoongar land and people / Francesca Robertson, Noel Nannup, Glen Stasiuk, Stephen Hopper

Record no:

86770

Call no:

G/572.994 NAN

Author:

Robertson, Francesca ; Nannup, Noel ; Stasiuk, Glen ; Hopper, Stephen D. ; Edith Cowan University ; Murdoch University

Publisher:

Perth: Edith Cowan University

Year:

[2015?]

Description:

38 leaves. : col. ill., maps, ports. ; 30 cm.

Subject:

Noongar (Australian people) - Western Australia;
Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology);
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - History;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Social life and customs;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Legends;

Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Religion;
Traditional ecological knowledge - Western Australia, Southwestern;
Palaeoclimatology - Western Australia, Southwestern;
Geological time;

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Notes:

Spiral bound.
Cover title.
Published version: Batchelor, NT : Batchelor Institute Press, [2017].
The contents of this book have been made into a 35 minute documentary film called Synergies: Walking Together - Belonging to Country (Djena Koorliny Danjoo Boodjar-ang).
Click link for electronic access to related video.

Type:

Book

Abstract:

An illustrated history of Nyoongar people and land from the Dreamtime to approximately 7,000 years ago. This work collates Nyoongar stories with geology and climate history.

Contents:

Introduction -- Era 1 The Nyetting (The Cold, Dark Time) -- Era 2 Jindalee (Spirit Woman) -- Era 3 Waaliny Walkern (The Coming of the Colours) -- Era 4 Kalykool (Always) -- Era 5 Koondaarn Boodja (Lore of the Land) -- Era 6 Nyoongar-abiny (Becoming Nyoongar

People) -- Era 7 Kaarla Mia (Keeping the Home Fires Burning) -- Era 8 Wardanaak Boodja (The Flood) -- Nyoongar Cultural Memory -- Timeline Summary -- Bibliography.

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