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Language: English , Aboriginal Walmajarri AIATSIS ref. (A66) (WA SE51-16)
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Two Sisters : Ngarta and Jukuna
Eirlys Richards
(translator),
Fremantle
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Fremantle Press
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2004
Z1091243
2004
selected work
autobiography
biography
'For the first 150 years of European settlement in Australia the Walmajarri people of the Great Sandy Desert remained untouched by Western influence. The First World War came and went, and left no impression in the sandhills. The Second World War had faint reverberations, but no one in the desert had heard of Hitler or Churchill, nor even the Australian prime minister John Curtin. The Vietnam War, about which they had heard nothing, was still in progress when two sisters, Jukuna and Ngarta, finally emerged from the Great Sandy Desert. It would be later still before they first heard the word Australia and learned that they were not only Walmajarri, but also Australians. This is their extroadinary story.' (Source: Back cover, 2004 edition)
Fremantle
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Fremantle Press
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2004
pg.
19-63
Note: illus., ports
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Subjects:
- Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
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