y separately published work icon Lamalama Country: Our Country Our Culture Our Way selected work   biography   criticism   poetry   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Lamalama Country: Our Country Our Culture Our Way
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The stories of the people and wildlife of Lamalama country presented as poems. Paddy Bassani and Albert Lakefield, senior Lamalama men and kinsman Tommy George, a senior Kuku Thaypan man travelled with Tom Popp to Lakefield National Park to show him their Lamalama country and tell their stories. Popp took many photographs and wrote down what they told him. After Popp's death the manuscript with photographs was passed to his friend, Cliff Little, who in 2003, passed it to Rigsby and Cole to bring to publication.

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Contents

* Contents derived from the Graceville, Corinda - Sherwood - Chelmer area, Brisbane - South & South West, Brisbane, Queensland,:Akito Pty Ltd ,Arts Queensland , 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Preface, Bruce Rigsby , Noelene Cole , single work biography (p. vi-x)
Introduction, single work criticism
Discusses the history of Lamalama country and Lamalama territory in the Cape York area of North Queensland, contact history and history from World War 1 to to the present.
(p. 1-7)
Paddy and Alberti"We are Paddy Bassani and Albert Lakefield", Paddy Bassani , Albert Lakefield , single work poetry (p. 8)
Our Country Our Land Our Sea-Countryi"Us Lamalama people we know our country you can see it on the map here", single work poetry (p. 9-10)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

[Review Essay] Lamalama Country: Our Country, Our Culture-Way Mark Crocombe , 2007 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2007; (p. 181-182)

'Lamalama Country provides the reader with a good insight into Indigenous Australian appreciation and management of country and resources. The perspective is that of two senior men who were grown up in that country. They list and picture a variety of plants and animals and tell the reader a little about their environmental and cultural significances. Their Indigenous voice is to the fore. Their account is set in context by a useful Preface and Introduction provided by the editors. It talks of groups removed from their traditional lands under the Queensland legislation and their enduring desire to return to look after the Country of their ancestors, to re-establish their knowledges of that Country and to pass it on to younger generations who need to know their ‘cultural roots’.' (Introduction)

[Review Essay] Lamalama Country: Our Country, Our Culture-Way Mark Crocombe , 2007 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2007; (p. 181-182)

'Lamalama Country provides the reader with a good insight into Indigenous Australian appreciation and management of country and resources. The perspective is that of two senior men who were grown up in that country. They list and picture a variety of plants and animals and tell the reader a little about their environmental and cultural significances. Their Indigenous voice is to the fore. Their account is set in context by a useful Preface and Introduction provided by the editors. It talks of groups removed from their traditional lands under the Queensland legislation and their enduring desire to return to look after the Country of their ancestors, to re-establish their knowledges of that Country and to pass it on to younger generations who need to know their ‘cultural roots’.' (Introduction)

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