TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robertson,Francesca
AU  - Nannup,Noel
AU  - Barrow,Jason
ED  - Batchelor Institute Press.
TI  - Great journeys undertaken by Aboriginal people in ancient times in Western Australia
SN  - 9781741310016 (paperback)
U1  - 305.8991 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Batchelor, NT
PB  - Batchelor Institute Press
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Western Australia
KW  - Research
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - History
KW  - Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology)
KW  - Australia
KW  - fast
KW  - Travel
KW  - Australian
N1  - This book describes ancient journeys undertaken by Aboriginal people in Western Australia. The journeys were identified when findings from several research projects came together. Using these findings the authors developed a timeline of the information of Nyoongar and Kimberley land using traditional Dreaming stories, geology and climate history. Some of this work can be found in the book Nyoongar boodja - Koomba Bardip Kooratan (Nyoongar land - long story short (Robertson et. al 2016) and the film Walking together, belonging to country (Stasiuk et. al, 2016); Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-41); Introduction : The research - The significance of journey -- The first great journey -- The first great drought -- The drought journeys : The coast route - The western inland route - The Eastern inland route -- Recent use of ancient journey ways -- Conclusion -- References
N2  - Based on recent research from Edith Cowan University converging contemporary Western and Nyoongar Aboriginal knowledge perspectives,this publication reimagines the epic journeys of ancient Aboriginal people in the Western Australian region in view of the shifting climatic and geographic conditions over millennia and the quest for survival and prosperity ; features Nyoongar and other Aboriginal language terms and concepts
ER  -