The sun dancin' : people and place in Coonabarabran / Margaret Somerville ; with Marie Dundas ... [et al.]
- Bib ID:
- 1853369
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Somerville, Margaret
- Description:
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- Canberra : Aboriginal studies Press, 1994
- v, 211 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 085575253X (paperback)
- Summary:
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History of Forky Mountain Reserve Burrabeedee Mission from the 1880s until people left under the influence of the assimilation policy of the 1950s; history of place told through histories of four women; Janet Robinson, May Mead , Marie Dundas, Maureen Sulter, three of whom are great -granddaughters of Mary Jane Cain, Queen of Burrabeedee; archaeological record of the area and womens knowledge and reaction to archaeological studies; contact history; place names and remnant language knowledge; biography of Mary Jane Cain based on oral history, memories and records; memories of Forky Mountain Reserve; missionaries; life on mission; movement to towns after mission closed; Burrabeedee today and discussion by women on what should happen to the site, particularly the cemetery.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 209-211.
- Subject:
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- Dundas, Marie
- Mead, May
- Robinson, Janet
- Sulter, Maureen
- Burrabeedee Aboriginal Reserve
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- New South Wales -- Coonabarabran Region -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Coonabarabran Region -- History
- Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi language (D23) (NSW SH55-12)
- Socioeconomic conditions - Living conditions
- Sites - Mortuary sites and cemeteries
- Settlement and contacts
- Colonisation
- History - Oral history
- Language - Vocabulary - Place names
- Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi people (D23) (NSW SH55-12)
- Literature and stories - Story telling and story tellers
- Burra Bee Dee (N NSW SH55-16)
- Coonabarabran (N NSW SH55-16)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Dundas, Marie
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1994
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