Flinders Ranges Dreaming is an extensive collection of the traditional stories of the Adnyamathanha people of the Northern Flinders Ranges and adjacent plains. It contains over fifty stories and as many photographs and maps. It was initiated by Adnyamathanha young people who feared that they were in danger of losing their stories forever.
Site record of the 290 place references in this work giving English and Yura Ngawarla names, location, associated myths, ownership, condition and recommendations for management. Can be seen in:
Tunbridge, Dorothy and Nepabunna Aboriginal School. Flinders Ranges Dreaming sites record. Aboriginal Studies Press: Canberra, 1991.
'A long time ago there lived an eagle call Wildu who had two nephews call Wakarla (the crows). Wildu was always telling the Wakarla what they could and could not do, and they did not like it...'
'Rebecca Forbes and Jim Page were English immigrants who lived and died amongst the Adnyamathanha people of the northern Flinders Ranges in the first half of the twentieth century. The first time I saw their two graves there - just the two of them, on their own up the hill, a little above the community at Nepabunna - I asked the obvious question: How did they come to be there? The journeys involved in these trajectories - immigration from England to Australia, migration from the coast to the inland - are the focus of this paper.' (Author's introduction, 149)
'Inhaadi ngalpurlaru yarta— Adnyamatharu. Inhanga Adnyamathanha ikaanggu, adi udnyuidla yanaanggata. (This is our country—Adnyamathanha people's. Adnyamathanha people lived here before the white men came.) Thus begins the imprimatur of a senior Adnyamathanha elder, Claude Demell, to Dorothy Tunbridge's beautiful book, Flinders Ranges Dreaming. This book is about Yura yarta, he tells us, Aboriginal country, his people's country-)'. Here are its stories. They aren't secret. We want you to know them.' (Introduction)
'Rebecca Forbes and Jim Page were English immigrants who lived and died amongst the Adnyamathanha people of the northern Flinders Ranges in the first half of the twentieth century. The first time I saw their two graves there - just the two of them, on their own up the hill, a little above the community at Nepabunna - I asked the obvious question: How did they come to be there? The journeys involved in these trajectories - immigration from England to Australia, migration from the coast to the inland - are the focus of this paper.' (Author's introduction, 149)
'Inhaadi ngalpurlaru yarta— Adnyamatharu. Inhanga Adnyamathanha ikaanggu, adi udnyuidla yanaanggata. (This is our country—Adnyamathanha people's. Adnyamathanha people lived here before the white men came.) Thus begins the imprimatur of a senior Adnyamathanha elder, Claude Demell, to Dorothy Tunbridge's beautiful book, Flinders Ranges Dreaming. This book is about Yura yarta, he tells us, Aboriginal country, his people's country-)'. Here are its stories. They aren't secret. We want you to know them.' (Introduction)
