Wirrilu (Blackfella Creek) single work   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Wirrilu (Blackfella Creek)
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'Another took place here to the east. I was shown this place too. From Jinparrak homestead east there is Number 17 Bore. From Number 17 there's a fence line running south to Ngangi. Coming back west of there is Number 4, and from Number 4 there's a river. At the head of it is another place where they shot a lot of ngumpin. It was the same thing again; ngumpin were killing cattle. I was shown where kartiya had covered dead bodies with stones — Blackfella Creek just where the head of the creek is, west of that blacksoil plain. They came upon the ngumpin there. 'Look here! They must be stealing our cattle!' (Introduction)

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Language: Aboriginal Gurindji AIATSIS ref. (C20) (NT SE52-08). Mirror of 9910589. One to be deleted by JH. , English
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    y separately published work icon Yijarni : True Stories from Gurindji Country Erika Charola (editor), Felicity Meakins (editor), Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 2016 9469367 2016 selected work prose Indigenous story

    '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. 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. ...' (Source: AIATSIS website)

         Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 2016     pg. 43-44
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