Pila Nguru : the Spinifex people / Scott Cane
- Bib ID:
- 1677075
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cane, Scott
- Description:
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- North Fremantle, W. A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002
- 260 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 28 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1863683488
- Invalid ISBN:
- 1863683848 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"The People of the Sun and Shadow are the Spinifex people. The duality reflects their association with land, defines their kinship and is the backbone of their religion. That association with land, law and people continued, cocooned within the spinifex plains of the Western Desert, for hundreds of generations until the Spinifex People were shaken from their nomadic solitude by the atomic shock of Maralinga. It was 1952 and the Spinifex people were about to meet white Australia."
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 254-260.
- Subject:
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- Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Western Australia -- Western Desert
- Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Western Australia
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Land tenure
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Western Desert
- Land use -- Western Australia
- Stories and motifs
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Art - Painting
- Land rights - Ownership
- Food
- Kukatja people (A68) (WA SF52-02)
- Pitjantjatjara people (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Geography - Territories and boundaries
- Native title - Law and legislation - Western Australia
- Outstations / Homelands movement
- Defence - Missile and weapons testing - Nuclear weapons
- Ngalia / Ngalea people (C2) (SA SH52-07)
- Stories and motifs - Mythological beings
- Native title - Law and legislation - Commonwealth
- Sites - Dreaming tracks
- Indigenous knowledge - World view
- Pindiini language A102 iatsisl
- Maralinga (Far West SA SH52-12)
- Great Victoria Desert (SE WA SH52)
- Cundeelee map area (SE WA SH51-11)
- Nullarbor Plain (SE WA, Far West SA SH51, SH52, SI52)
- Tjuntjuntjara (SE WA SH52-05)
- Cundeelee (SE WA SH51-11)
- Coonana (SE WA SH51-11)
- Also Titled:
- Spinifex people
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2002
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