Benang: From the HeartOceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament--of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilized from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past. |
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Page 69
... camp , the reserve , between the tip and the shit pit and hardly any water for the people who were pushed all together like that . Yeah , they were huddled under thin , scraggly trees in tents and humpies , which was okay , but it was ...
... camp , the reserve , between the tip and the shit pit and hardly any water for the people who were pushed all together like that . Yeah , they were huddled under thin , scraggly trees in tents and humpies , which was okay , but it was ...
Page 137
... camp said she was stuck - up , toffee- nosed , that she thought she was too good . ' She thinks she's white ! ' It was only ever the people in the camp who said this ; never those in the town , who either glared , or ignored her ...
... camp said she was stuck - up , toffee- nosed , that she thought she was too good . ' She thinks she's white ! ' It was only ever the people in the camp who said this ; never those in the town , who either glared , or ignored her ...
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... camp . Or , what about the verandah ? You won't be held up in the morning then . ' They would leave tomorrow , and hunt the man down . Over the next days Sandy led Hall and Stewart to various native camps . The two policemen lay on ...
... camp . Or , what about the verandah ? You won't be held up in the morning then . ' They would leave tomorrow , and hunt the man down . Over the next days Sandy led Hall and Stewart to various native camps . The two policemen lay on ...
Common terms and phrases
Aborigines arms Auber Aunty Australian Natives Association beach Benang bird boat camp campfire Chief Protector child Constable Hall Daniel Coolman dark Dinah Dubitj Creek dunes Ern's eyes face Fanny father feet felt fire Frederickstown Gebalup girl Grandad grandfather grandfather's grinning half-caste hands Harriette head heard held hessian horse Jack Chatalong Kathleen kids Kim Scott knew Kylie Bay land laughed listened looked mallee Mason Mogumber mother moved Mustle natives Neville Nyoongar Nyungar once paperbarks perhaps police policeman Protector of Aborigines quadroon railway rainwater tank remember sand seemed Sergeant Hall shoulder sister skin smile someone Starr stay talk teamsters thin things thought told Tommy took Topsy town trees turned Uncle Jack voice wagon walked wanted watched wife wind Wirlup Haven woman women words Yeah