Yami : the autobiography of Yami Lester
- Bib ID:
- 2669577
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lester, Yami
- Description:
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- Alice Springs, N.T. : Institute for Aboriginal Development, c1993
- 185 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0949659606 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Yami (Jim) Lester's life story; early years in the Western Desert; stockman; sickness and blindness that followed bomb tests at Maralinga; Royal Commission in London; Wallatina; Mimili; Yankunytjatjara; Colebrook Home.
- Subject:
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- Lester, Yami
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Mixed descent
- Yankunytjatjara (Australian people) -- Biography
- History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Yankunytjatjara people (C4) (NT SG52-16)
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Health - Vision / Blindness
- Defence - Missile and weapons testing - Nuclear weapons
- Quorn (SE SA SI54-01)
- Mimili / Everard Park (SA Central Australia SG53-13)
- Maralinga (Far West SA SH52-12)
- Western Desert (WA SF51, SF52, SG51, SG52)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Institute for Aboriginal Development (Alice Springs, N.T.)
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1993
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