Young dark emu : a truer history / Bruce Pascoe.

By: Pascoe, Bruce, 1947- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 78 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type: cartographic image | still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925360844 (hardback)Related works: Adaptation of (work) Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-. Dark emuSubject(s): Indigenous Collection | Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander | Premier's reading challenge (NSW) grades 7-9 | Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities | Hunting and gathering societies | Land use, Rural | Aboriginal Australians | Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture | Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs | Aboriginal Australians -- History | Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture -- Juvenile literature | Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature | Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature | Land use, Rural -- Australia -- Juvenile literature | Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia -- Juvenile literature | Australia -- History -- To 1788 -- Juvenile literature | Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 | Australia | Australia -- History -- Juvenile literature | juvenile non-fiction | Australian history | Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content | AustralianGenre/Form: Indigenous Heritage -- Junior Non fiction -- Print | Premier's Reading Challenge. 7-9 | Juvenile works. | History. DDC classification: 305.89915 | 338.10994 LOC classification: DU120 | .P368 2019
Contents:
Introduction -- One - The land grab -- Two - Agriculture -- Three - Aquaculture -- Four - Home -- Five - Food storage -- Six - Fire -- Sacred places -- Sustainable futures -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index -- About the author.
Awards: Indie Book Award - Children's - Longlist, 2020. | Indie Book Award - Children's - Shortlist, 2020. | Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Books, Eve Pownall Award for information books 2020.Summary: Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived - a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent. Young Dark Emu - A Truer History asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia's history pre-European colonisation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- One - The land grab -- Two - Agriculture -- Three - Aquaculture -- Four - Home -- Five - Food storage -- Six - Fire -- Sacred places -- Sustainable futures -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index -- About the author.

Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived - a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent. Young Dark Emu - A Truer History asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia's history pre-European colonisation.

10+ years.

Indie Book Award - Children's - Longlist, 2020.

Indie Book Award - Children's - Shortlist, 2020.

Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Books, Eve Pownall Award for information books 2020.

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