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Essie Coffey Essie Coffey i(A115156 works by) (birth name: Essina Nooninarni Goodjebah) (a.k.a. Bush Queen)
Born: Established: 1940 ; Died: Ceased: 1998
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Muruwari / Murrawarri
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1 A Silent Tear Running Down Arthur Baumgarten , Douglas Abbott , Essie Coffey , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), 1993 single work oral history
— Appears in: The Wailing : A National Black Oral History 1993; (p. 357-375)
1 3 form y separately published work icon My Survival as an Aboriginal ( dir. Essie Coffey ) Sydney : Goodgaban Productions , 1978 Z1580535 1978 single work film/TV (taught in 1 units)

Essie Coffey--black activist, musician, and resident of 'Dodge City' in north-west New South Wales--demonstrates the conflicts and tensions of living as an Aboriginal under white domination. Encouraging the black community to be proud of their identity and their culture in the face of such domination, Coffey shows how she is passing on knowledge of traditional bush ways to a generation of young Aboriginal children who have only ever known white education.
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