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But that does not matter to me because in my Aboriginal way of being and knowing, stories like my uncle’s do not need modern scientific proof to have validity – the role of story in Indigenous community is key to all aspects of our Culture.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:start;\" class=\"\"\u003eA long time ago Indigenous Australian seafarers sailed to Hawaii on the trade winds. When they got there they exchanged skills, information and technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:start;\" class=\"\"\u003eA story told to his uncle by an Indigenous Hawaiian elder would change the shape of Gumbaynggirr\/Gamilaroi man Victor Briggs’ life, and send him on a search for answers to the question: were Indigenous Australians master navigators of one of the world’s largest oceans, the South Pacific? 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With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than we have ever realised.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor over a decade, Gammage has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire and the life cycles of native plants to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. We know Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter, and now we know how they did it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith details of land-management strategies from around Australia, The Biggest Estate on Earth rewrites the history of this continent, with huge implications for us today. 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Here is Australia as it has been for countless generations, land and people in effortless balance, and Australia as it became, but also Australia as it could and should be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDebra Dank is a Gudanji\/Wakaja woman, married to Rick, with three adult children and two grandchildren. An educator, she has worked in teaching and learning for many years - a gift given through the hard work of her parents. She continues to experience the privilege of living with country and with family. Debra completed her PhD in Narrative Theory and Semiotics at Deakin University in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eISBN: 9781760687397\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: center;\"\u003ePublished: 5 July 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62385840718194,"sku":"SQ2151532","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/8204\/9650\/files\/ImageHandler.webp?v=1789896024"},{"product_id":"william-cooper","title":"William Cooper An Aboriginal Life Story","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eAn important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eWilliam Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been widely commemorated and celebrated. By carefully reconstructing the historical losses his Yorta Yorta people suffered and endured, William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story reveals how the first seventy years of Cooper's life inspired the remarkable political work he undertook in the 1930s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eFocusing on Cooper's most important campaigns-his famous petition to the British king George for an Aboriginal representative in the Australian parliament, his call for a day of mourning after 150 years of colonisation, the walk-off of the Yorta Yorta people from Cumeroogunga reserve in 1939 and his opposition to the establishment of an Aboriginal regiment in the Second World War-this carefully researched study sheds important new light on the long struggle that Indigenous people have fought to have the truth about Australia's black history heard and win representation in Australia's political order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul data-rte-list=\"default\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003ePublished: 2 November 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eISBN: 9780522877946\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003ePages: 296\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62385842356594,"sku":"SQ2047378","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/8204\/9650\/files\/9780522877939-FC.webp?v=1789896051"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/8204\/9650\/collections\/KeziahKrikmann_RC-48.jpg?v=1789902788","url":"https:\/\/rileycallieresources.com.au\/collections\/books-for-teachers-educators.oembed?page=2","provider":"Riley Callie Resources","version":"1.0","type":"link"}