This is my word = Ngay Janijirr ngank / by Magdalene Williams ; edited by Pat Torres
- Bib ID:
- 1370373
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Williams, Magdalene, -1995
- Description:
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- Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 1999
- ©1999
- 121 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBN:
- 1875641475 (paperback)
- Series:
- Kerry White collection of Australian children's books.
- Summary:
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"A long time ago in Ngarlan, the place where Beagle Bay stands, a very strange and frightening thing happened. This was a long time before any Europeans or white people (wajbal) were around in this part of the country.... So begins a beautiful, poignant story told by Magdalene Williams of the Nyulnyul people. Although raised in the confines of Beagle Bay mission, she was constantly exposed to her traditional culture through her elders. Her account of the coming of the missionaries, and the resultant destruction of Law and culture, is interweaved with the richness and poetry of Nyulnyul stories. Ngay Janijirr Ngank is a perceptive record of the Nyulnyul of the Kimberley, exquisitely illustrated by Pat Torres with photographs by Maria Mann." - Cover.
- Notes:
- For primary school age.
- Subject:
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- Nyulnyul (Australian people) -- Legends
- Nyulnyul (Australian people) -- Western Australia -- Beagle Bay Region -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Beagle Bay Region -- Social life and customs
- Nyol-Nyol language -- Pronunciation
- Stories and motifs - Animals
- Stories and motifs - Stars
- Culture - Relationship to place
- Nyulnyul / Nyul Nyul people (K13) (WA SE51-02)
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Nyul Nyul language K13
- Nyulnyul / Nyul Nyul language (K13) (WA SE 51-02)
- Beagle Bay (W.A.)
- Beagle Bay (WA West Kimberley SE51-02)
- West Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51)
- Australian
- Also Titled:
- Ngay Janijirr ngank
- Related Records:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2069 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1995
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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