Fiona Doyle's Whispers of This Wik Woman PDF

By Fiona Doyle

ISBN-10: 0702234613

ISBN-13: 9780702234613

This soaking up and private account of Wik activist Jean George Awumpun deals an extraordinary knowing of Aboriginal id and conventional land. to demonstrate her proud Alngith Wikwaya beginnings, Awumpun's early background is advised via friend and Alngith descendant Fiona Doyle. This ancestral background combines with the tale of Awumpun's fight within the Wik local name claims, which complex the sooner Mabo choice onto mainland Australia. utilizing pictures, regularly encouraged artwork and language phrases, Fiona Doyle invitations us into the center of Cape York's Wikwaya country.

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