I'm the one that know this country! / Jessie Lennon
- Bib ID:
- 4978610
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lennon, Jessie, 1925-1998
- Edition:
- Revised ed.
- Description:
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- Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2011
- xvi, 159 p. : ill., port., map. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780855757199 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Matutjara woman, Jessie Lennon, was born on a sheep station near Kingoonya in the 1920s. Aged six, she accompanied her father on a ceremonial journey with the Old People, as far west as Ooldea, in the time of Daisy Bates, and north to Coober Pedy, then a fledgling opal-mining settlement. [...] In the 1950s, Jessie and her family were ́caught by the bomb́: fallout from the British nuclear tests at Emu, north of Maralinga. They were not evacuated, nor advised to take any precautions, and although they fled east, they could not escape the long-term effects on their health. Decades later, Jessie and Senior Elders in the community took up an unsuccessful fight for compensation." - Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p.157-159).
- Subject:
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- Lennon, Jessie, 1925-1998
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- South Australia -- Coober Pedy Region -- Biography
- Nuclear weapons testing victims -- South Australia -- Maralinga
- History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Defence - Missile and weapons testing - Nuclear weapons
- Yankunytjatjara people (C4) (NT SG52-16)
- Mining industry - Opal
- Family
- Maralinga (S.A.) -- History
- Coober Pedy (S.A.) -- History
- Umoona / Coober Pedy (West SA SH53-06)
- Port Augusta (West SA SI53-04)
- Kingoonya (West SA SH53-11)
- Ooldea (Far West SA SH52-12)
- Maralinga (Far West SA SH52-12)
- Finniss Springs (West SA SH53-08)
- Umeewarra (West SA SI53-04)
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- GPO Box 553 Canberra ACT 2601
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2081 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1998
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2011
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