Too Many Captain Cooks single work   prose   Indigenous story  
Note: Translated into English from Rembarrnga and Kriol, June 1987.
Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Too Many Captain Cooks
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

To Aboriginal people, Captain Cook is the archetypal first white man in Australia.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Too Many Captain Cooks Paddy Fordham Wainburranga , ( dir. Penny McDonald ) Alice Springs : Chili Films , 1989 Z1393872 1989 single work film/TV

Paddy Wainburranga of the Rembarrnga tribe from Arnhem Land relates and paints the Rembarrnga history of Captain Cook. Typical of contemporary Aboriginal accounts, this story offers a markedly different perspective to the history upheld by non-Aboriginal Australians. The 'Captain Cook' of the title, in Northern Australian slang, refers to white people.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1987
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature David Headon (editor), Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991 Z54431 1991 anthology poetry short story prose correspondence extract

    'The writers and story-tellers included in this collection relate an important, even epic tale. They tell a story which in 1988 (white Australia's bicentennial year) rarely received attention because, while it tells of courage and love, it also focuses on killing and conquest, eccentricity and madness, and a land as hostile and murderous as it could be gentle and caring...' (Source: Preface)

         Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991     pg. 24-25
VIEW PUBLICATION DETAILS FOR ALL VERSIONS ()
Last amended 20 Feb 2013 11:54:40
Subjects:
  • Arnhem Land, Top End, Northern Territory,
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X