'This book examines physical activities and sports important to Erambie Kooris, including the animated form of storytelling that has a significant physical performance component, games such as rounders and skipping, as well as bare knuckle fighting. It also examines the connections between physical activities and sports as cultural practices.' (Source: Koori Mail, issue 548 2013)
'Our stories are our survival is fascinating, enlightening and extremely well written. I thought I was culturally sensitive, relatively aware and extremely interested in Indigenous ways of knowing. This book showed me how naive I am. I was left convinced that I am the product of a white version of a black story.' (Introduction)
'Storytelling is everyday practice and experience for Wiradjuri Kooris in rural New South Wales. It is how kids learn who they are, it reinforces Koori identity, and enables continuity of culture. Our Stories are Our Survivalby Wiradjuri academic Lawrence Bamblett (2013) examines stories told by Wiradjuri people from Erambie in Cowra, countering pervasive ‘straight-line’ (focused) stories told by newspaper journalists, academics and whitefellas when representing Indigenous peoples (46). As the evocative title suggests, stories are the lifeblood of this text, but it is more than a sum of oral histories.' (Introduction)
'Our stories are our survival is fascinating, enlightening and extremely well written. I thought I was culturally sensitive, relatively aware and extremely interested in Indigenous ways of knowing. This book showed me how naive I am. I was left convinced that I am the product of a white version of a black story.' (Introduction)
'Storytelling is everyday practice and experience for Wiradjuri Kooris in rural New South Wales. It is how kids learn who they are, it reinforces Koori identity, and enables continuity of culture. Our Stories are Our Survivalby Wiradjuri academic Lawrence Bamblett (2013) examines stories told by Wiradjuri people from Erambie in Cowra, countering pervasive ‘straight-line’ (focused) stories told by newspaper journalists, academics and whitefellas when representing Indigenous peoples (46). As the evocative title suggests, stories are the lifeblood of this text, but it is more than a sum of oral histories.' (Introduction)
