Waanyi away / Jeannie Little
- Bib ID:
- 8634390
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Little, J. (Jeannie), 1941-, author
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Description:
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- Cairns North, QLD : Jabiru Publishing, 2021
- ©2021
- x, 193 pages : colour illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780648889465 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Jeannie Little was born and raised in Mapoon, a small Aboriginal community on the western side of Cape York in north Queensland. Before the community was closed, Jeannie's mother moved her family to Thursday Island when Jeannie was a teenager. She trained as a nurse in Brisbane and later travelled across Australia throughout her working life, eventually returning to Mapoon after the community was reopened. This book contains an historical account of Mapoon and Jeannie's personal experiences of growing up there. Jeannie's story is also the stories of her mother and her grandmother. Jeannie has never forgotten her mother's words: "Don't carry my baggage." Waanyi is Jeannie's mother's tribe and so her tribe by birthright. The country belonging to the Waanyi lies to the west of Doomadgee on the Gulf of Carpentaria.
- Full contents:
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- Appendix: Gulf Country tradgedy : The King Family's forced removal from their ancient lands
- Geoff Wharton OAM.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
- Turn Off Lagoons (Qld Gulf SE54-05)
- Subject:
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- Little, J. (Jeannie), 1941-
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Queensland, North -- Mapoon -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Cairns -- Biography
- Nurses -- Queensland -- Biography
- Nurses -- Australia -- Biography
- Mapoon (Qld.) -- History
- Australian
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content
- Australian history
- Genre/Form:
- Autobiographies
- Other authors/contributors:
- Wharton, Geoff, contributor
- Copyright:
-
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2021
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