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A powerful and moving history in which Peter Coppin, or Kangkushot, remembers his life in Western Australia’s Pilbara region and his involvement in the first strike of Aboriginal workers in the nation’s history in 1946.
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Peter Coppin, often known as Kangushot, was one of the leaders of the 1946 strike by Aboriginal workers to protest against the conditions they worked under. Jolly Read has spent 15 years working with Indigenous communities on native title, music and writing/oral history projects. In 2005, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study Indigenous storytelling and preservation/development of culture and native title issues.
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- PublisherAboriginal Studies Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0855753412
- ISBN 13 9780855753412
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages198
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Jolly with a dedication on the half title page. In this powerful and moving oral history, Nyamal lawman Peter Coppin, or Kangkushot, remembers a life of danger, drama and hardship, but also one that was significant in the movement towards social justice and social awareness for Australian society as a whole. With friend Jolly Read, Coppin also records the integral and loving relationship between the Nyamal and their country, the source of their spiritual emotional strength, their Dreaming and their Law. Australia. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 025572
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Size: 9"-10" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Aborigines; ISBN: 0855753412. ISBN/EAN: 9780855753412. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 36939. Seller Inventory # 36939
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. ix+198pp., Pictorial full colour photographic covers with faint crease to top corner of front panel and bottom corner of rear panel, neat previous ownership inscription to title-page, intro. by Jolly Read, map- full page, col. & b/w plts. & text, Nyamal orthography, endnotes. In this powerful and moving oral history, Nyamal lawman Peter Coppin, or Kangkushot, remembers a life of danger, drama and hardship, but also one that was significant in the movement towards social justice and social awareness for Australian society as a whole. With friend Jolly Read, Coppin also records the integral and loving relationship between the Nyamal and their country, the source of their spiritual emotional strength, their Dreaming and their Law. Size: Large Octavo. Book. Seller Inventory # 003357
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