Dujuan Hoosan Dujuan Hoosan i(19661621 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Arrernte ; Aboriginal Garrwa / Garrawa / Garawa
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Dujuan Hoosan is a multilingual hunter and healer from Arrente and Garrwa Country in Central Australia, and was the youngest person to address the UN Human Rights Council on Indigenous issues. His life is explored in the documentary, In My Blood It Runs. (Source: Overland 238)

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y separately published work icon In My Blood It Runs : History. Learning. Love. Resistance Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2023 26667379 2023 single work picture book children's

'This is the story of Dujuan Hoosan, a 10-year-old Arrernte and Garawa boy. A wise, funny, cheeky boy. A healer.

'Out bush, his healing power (Ngangkere) is calm and straight. But in town, it's wobbly and wild, like a snake.

'He's in trouble at school, and with the police. He thinks there's something wrong with him.

'Dujuan's family knows what to do: they send him to live out bush, to learn the ways of the old people, and the history that runs straight into all Aboriginal people.

'So he can be proud of himself.' (Publication summary)
2024 winner The Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature — Karajia Award — Nonfiction
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