The children of Tiger Wirirr / Bessie Doonday, Rex Johns, Veronica Lulu
- Bib ID:
- 5716902
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Doonday, Bessie
- Description:
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- Halls Creek, W.A. : Kimberley Language Resource Centre, 2009
- ii, 40 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 map, ports. ; 19 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781875167425
- Summary:
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Bessie Doonday, Rex Johns and Veronica Lulu are the three children of Tiger Wirirr, a tradtional Walmajarri man of Paruku (Lake Gregory) in the north-east corner of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. These personal accounts tell the remarkable story of a family's return to their father's country."--Back cover.
- Notes:
- In English with some Jaru words.
- Subject:
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- Wirirr, Tiger
- Doonday, Bessie
- Johns, Rex
- Lulu, Veronica
- Walmajarri (Australian people) -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Biography
- Walmajarri (Australian people) -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Social life and customs -- History
- Painters, Aboriginal Australian -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Biography
- Kukatja people (A68) (WA SF52-02)
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Occupations - Domestic servants
- Native title - Agreements - Indigenous Land Use
- Land rights - Handbacks
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers - Drovers / Stockmen
- Walmajarri / Walmatjarri language (A66) (WA SE51-16)
- History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Walmajarri / Walmatjarri people (A66) (WA SE51-16)
- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Biography
- Kimberley (W.A.) -- History
- Paruku / Lake Gregory (Central WA Great Sandy Desert SF52-01)
- Billiluna / Kururrungku (Central WA Tanami Desert SE52-14)
- Balgo / Wirrimanu (Central WA Tanami Desert SF52-02)
- Mulan (WA East Kimberley SF52-02)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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