Kangkushot: The life of Nyamal lawman Peter Coppin - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jolly Read, Peter CoppinTheme:Interdisciplinary Studies/Australian StudiesPublish date:6/1/2014Pages:208
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Aboriginal Studies PressISBN-13:9781922059635ISBN-10:1922059633UPC:9781922059635Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Cultural & Regional, Political, IndigenousSize:9.30 x 6.60 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.409Product ID:SC0P3C6DSQ
Kangkushot provides valuable insights into the rich and spiritual way Aboriginal people view their lives and land, and their place in it. This is an updated edition of an epic and remarkable story of senior Nyamal lawman, Peter Coppin, who dreamed of a different life for his people. Despite great danger to themselves, he and others took part in the longest Aboriginal strike in Australia, the Pilbara Strike in 1946. Born in Yarrie country in Western Australia's Pilbara, he describes a life of danger, drama and hardship; his people forced to work on pastoral stations for meagre rations, their lives subject to the whims of white pastoralists, government agents and legislators. Coppin went on to be awarded a British Empire medal, was joint NAIDOC elder of the year and won a police medal, as well as negotiating the first perpetual leases over Pilbara land and running a successful cattle station.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Aboriginal Studies PressISBN-13:9781922059635ISBN-10:1922059633UPC:9781922059635Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Cultural & Regional, Political, IndigenousSize:9.30 x 6.60 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.409Product ID:SC0P3C6DSQ
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. She was a longtime friend of Peter Coppin. 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.
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
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2nd Edition
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