My country of the pelican dreaming : the life of an Australian Aborigine of the Gadjerong, Grant Ngabidj, 1904-1977 as told to Bruce Shaw
- Bib ID:
- 1647837
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ngabidj, Grant, 1904-1977
- Description:
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- Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1981
- 202 p. : ill., maps, port. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 085575088X
- 0391022180 (Humanities Press)
- Series:
- AIAS new series ; no. 17.
- Summary:
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Narrative account of Ngabidjs life, including large amounts of information on traditional law and social organisation; relationship to land; location and relationships between Gadjerong, Miriwong, Wunambal, Gidja, Ngarinman, Djaru, Murinbata, Yilngali, Garamau, Wadjagidj, Malak tribal groups; naming, totems, conception, kinship, marriage, initiation; station life and stock work, violent conflicts with whites, Forrest River massacre, relations with police; food, hunting, shelters, didgeridoo; legends, cosmology, magic, sorcery, poisoning, medicine; ceremonies, cults; tribal law, executions, fights and social control; revival of traditional law; introduction by Shaw with historical notes, comments on the narrative and on Aboriginal English; glossary.
- Full contents:
- Includes index
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [191]-195.
- Subject:
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- Ngabidj, Grant, 1904-1977
- Aboriginal Australians. Ngabidj, Grant, 1904-1977. Biographies
- Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Garama language (N34) (NT SD52-12)
- Gajerrong / Gajirrawoong people (K37.1) (WA SD52-15)
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Wadyiginy people (N31) (NT SD52-03)
- Language - Change
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Reproduction - Conception
- Murrinhpatha language (N3) (NT SD52-11)
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Gajerrong / Gajirrawoong language (K37.1) (WA SD52-14)
- Language - Personal names
- Law - Indigenous
- Malak Malak people (N22) (NT SD52-08)
- Ngarinman / Ngarinyman language (C27) (NT SE52-01)
- Miriwoong / Miriuwung people (K29) (WA SD52-14)
- Miriwoong / Miriuwung language (K29) (WA SD52-14)
- Hunting
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Magic and sorcery - Love magic
- Religion - Totemism
- Kija / Gidja language (K20) (WA SE 52-06)
- Murrinhpatha people (N3) (NT SD52-11)
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Wunambal people (K22) (WA SD51-12)
- Reproduction - Childbirth
- Jaru / Djaru people (K12) (WA SE52-10)
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Music - Instruments - Wind - Didjeridu
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Religions - Christianity
- Garama people (N34) (NT SD52-12)
- Djerag language (K47) (WA SD52-14)
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes
- Malak Malak language (N22) (NT SD52-08)
- Kija / Gidja people (K20) (WA SE52-06)
- Ceremonies - Rain making
- Jaru / Djaru language (K12) (WA SE 52-10)
- Wunambal language (K22) (WA SD51-12)
- Language - English - Aboriginal English
- Wadyiginy language (N31) (NT SD52-03)
- Ngarinman / Ngarinyman people (C27) (NT SE52-01)
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Ningbingi Ningguwung Community (WA East Kimberley SD52-14)
- Northern Territory Top End (NT)
- Carlton Hill (WA East Kimberley SD52-14)
- Forrest River (WA East Kimberley SD52-09, SD52-10, SD52-14)
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- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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