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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Pigeon
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A short story on the life of Jandamarra, resistance leader of the West Kimberley area in the 1890s who rebelled against the injustices that were being committed against the Bunuba people and their land.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Carlisle, Victoria Park area, South & South East Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Hesperian Press , 2010 .
      Extent: 27p.
      Description: illus., map
      Note/s:
      • First published in 1938.
      ISBN: 9780859050067 (pbk)
      Series: y separately published work icon Aboriginal Studies Series Hesperian Press , Carlisle : Hesperian Press , 1980- 9949601 1980 series - publisher biography

      These books have either total Aboriginal content, substantial Aboriginal content, or contain Aboriginal material of interest. (Hesperian Press website)

             Number in series: 45
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Related Works

y separately published work icon Pigeon : An Aboriginal Rebel Howard Pedersen , Murdoch : 1980 Z1629460 1980 single work thesis 'A study of Aboriginal-European conflict in the West Kimberley, North Western Australia during the 1890s'.
Pigeon the Outlaw : History as Texts Stephen Muecke , Alan Rumsey , Banjo Worrumarra , 1985 anthology biography oral history
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 9 no. 1 1985; (p. 81-100) This article contains some versions of the story of Jandamarra (also called Pigeon) a famous Aboriginal 'outlaw' of the Kimberley district of Western Australia. The story of Pidgeon occupies a significantly central place in representations of the history of Aboriginal-European contact in the Kimberleys. (Source: Pigeon the Outlaw: History as Texts)
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Subjects:
  • Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
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