wuungku, a shelter (also wuundu)
yaata, go away
yalta or galyu time, winter or the rainy season
yardini, come here
yina booger, footwear
youay, yes
yowada, horse
*also spelt Mardudjara, Martujara
References
Books
Biskup, P., 1973, Not Slaves: Not Citizens, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
Crowley, F.K. and de Garis, B.K., A Short History of Western Australia, Melbourne and Sydney.
Hughes, R., 1988, The Fatal Shore, Pan Books, London.
Moore, G.F., Diary of Ten Years of an Early Settler in Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, Perth.
Rowley, C.D., 1970, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society, Australian National University Press, Canberra.
_____, 1971, Outcasts in White Australia, Australian National University Press, Canberra.
_____, 1971, The Remote Aborigines, Australian National University Press, Canberra.
Stone, S.N., 1974, Aborigines in White Australia, Griffen Press, Adelaide.
Tonkinson, R., 1974, The Jigalong Mob: Aboriginal Victors of The Desert Crusade, Benjamin/Collins, California.
_____, 1978, The Mardudjara Aborigines: Living the Dream in Australia’s Desert, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Sydney.
Government Records and Newspapers
Department of Family and Children’s Services Original Police File Number 5979/31
Department of Native Affairs File Numbers 173/30; 175/30; 345/36
Illustrated Melbourne Post 20 August, 1861
West Australian 11 August, 1931
Black Australian Writing Series
Since 1988, UQP has built up an international reputation as the largest publisher of books by Indigenous authors in Australia. UQP’s Black Australian Writing series evolved out of the David Unaipon Award, which discovers new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers. Today the series includes Indigenous-authored books ranging from novels, poetry, and life stories to non-fiction and young adult fiction. Through the combined expertise of our authors, cultural advisors and specialist staff, UQP continues its commitment to Indigenous writing as a valued contribution to the literature of a nation.
DORIS PILKINGTON/NUGI GARIMARA
CAPRICE: A stockman’s daughter
A fictional account of one woman’s journey to find her family and heritage, Caprice is Doris Pilkington Garimara’s first book. Set in the towns, pastoral stations and orphanage-styled institutions of Western Australia, this story brings together three generations of Mardu women. The narrator Kate begins her journey with the story of her grandmother Lucy, a domestic servant, then traces the short and tragic life of her mother Peggy.
Winner of the 1990 David Unaipon Award
Fiction
DORIS PILKINGTON/NUGI GARIMARA
UNDER THE WINTAMARRA TREE
This sequel to the film-inspiring Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence is Doris’ own story. It is told through the eyes of a young Doris who grows up as a ward of Moore River Institution. Later, as a mother with a young family, she searches for her mother and father in the remote Pilbara country where she was born under the wintamarra tree.
Non-fiction
VIVIENNE CLEVEN
HER SISTER’S EYE
In a town with a history of vigilante raids, missing persons and unsolved murders, survival can be all that matters. Powerful and sinister, this is the second book by the brilliant Murri writer whose comedy novel Bitin’ Back (2001) won the David Unaipon Award and was shortlisted in the 2002 South Australian Premier’s Award for Fiction.
Through Cleven’s strongly developed characters, her use of magical elements and the novel’s disquieting sense of place, she offers a powerful and sensitive look at Australia’s treatment of not only indigenous people but also of women. This is a brilliant literary novel.
Chris Stamenitis, Australian Bookseller and Publisher
Winner of the 2004 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards—Indigenous Writing Prize
Fiction
VIVIENNE CLEVEN
BITIN’ BACK
This is a rollicking comedy novel that blends in nimbly the realities of small town prejudice and racial intolerance. When football-playing Nevil awakens one morning determined to don a frock and ‘eyeshada’ to better understand the late novelist Jean Rhys, his mother’s idle days at the bingo hall are ended forever.
One of the funniest, funkiest books I’ve read in years.
Chris Brice, Adelaide Advertiser
A comic gem. Cleven creates a truly memorable Aussie character in Mavis.
Linda Jaivin, The Age
Winner of the 2000 David Unaipon Award
Fiction
ROBERT LOWE
THE MISH
An award-winning story of family, community and tradition on Victoria’s Framlingham Aboriginal Mission. The Mish is a charming, humorous memoir of times past, about growing up on western Victoria’s Framlingham Aboriginal Station in the 1950s and 60s. A celebration of the resilient and unified extended family.
There is little published material available on ordinary Victorian Aborigines, and this book is certainly a valuable resource in this regard. The Mish is remarkably similar in tone to a nostalgic fireside chat.
Jo Case, Australian Bookseller and Publisher
Winner of the 2001 David Unaipon Award
Memoir
LARISSA BEHRENDT
HOME
A story of homecoming, this absorbing novel opens with a young, city-based lawyer setting out on her first visit to ancestral country. Candice arrives at ‘the place where the rivers meet’, the camp of the Eualeyai where in 1918 her grandmother Garibooli was abducted. As Garibooli takes up the story of Candice’s Aboriginal family, the twentieth century fades away.
Behrendt brilliantly explores the subtleties of race and identity in a palpable way. It is like getting under another’s skin.
The Age
Winner of the 2002 David Unaipon Award
Shortlisted for the 2004 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards—Indigenous Writing Prize
Fiction
FIONA DOYLE
WHISPERS OF THIS WIK WOMAN
This absorbing and personal account of Wik activist Jean George Awumpun offers a rare understanding of Aboriginal identity and traditional land. To illustrate her proud Alngith Wikwaya beginnings, Awumpun’s early history is told through family member and Alngith descendant Fiona Doyle. This ancestral history combines with the story of Awumpun’s struggle in the Wik native title claims, which advanced the earlier Mabo Decision onto mainland Australia.
A beautiful story about an exceptional human being.
Unaipon Award judges’ comment
Winner of the 2003 David Unaipon Award
Biography
SUE ABBEY AND SANDRA PHILLIPS (EDS)
FRESH CUTTINGS
A celebration of fiction and poetry from UQP’s Black Writing series. The stories and poems in this collection celebrate the flourishing Black Writing list at UQP. Series editors have chosen pieces for their lyrical and storytelling qualities. Each piece illustrates, in language that is notably contemporary and regional, the diverse voices and dynamic, often unfixed, writing styles available in Indigenous literature today.
Ficton/Poetry
MELISSA LUCASHENKO
STEAM PIGS
Sue Wilson, young and Aboriginal, enters ‘the mythic world of Work’ and discovers that the view from behind the bar is less than glamorous, but pays the rent. When she meets Roger the good times begin to roll until she finds herself starring in a feature with medium-level violence.
With direct and gutsy language, Melissa Lucashenko’s first novel makes no apologies.
Fiction
MELISSA LUCASHENKO
HARD YARDS
Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents—he can fight, and he can run like the clappers. In the inn
er-city’s harsh code there are losers and survivors, and Roo’s a survivor.
Shortlisted for Courier-Mail Book of the Year
Fiction
HERB WHARTON
UNBRANDED
From the riotous picnic races to the famous Mt Isa rodeo, from childhood in the yumba to gutsy outback pubs, this novel presents a strikingly original vision of Australia. Re-released in UQP’s Classics list.
Fiction
HERB WHARTON
YUMBA DAYS
The Yumba—an Aboriginal settlement—is home to Herbie, his brothers, sisters, relations and friends on the outskirts of town. From his back door the view of his playground stretches beyond the banks of the Warrego River—as far as the eye can see. In time Herbie takes to the saddle as a stockman, and travels beyond his beloved Yumba.
Herb Wharton transforms the written word with his original brilliance and Aboriginality.
Jackie Huggins
Memoir
SAMUEL WAGAN WATSON
SMOKE ENCRYPTED WHISPERS
These poems pulse with the language and images of a mangrove-lined river city, the beckoning highway, the just-glimpsed muse, the tug of childhood and restless ancestors. For the first time, Samuel Wagan Watson’s poetry has been collected into this stunning volume, which includes a final section of all new work.
Poetry
RUTH HEGARTY
IS THAT YOU, RUTHIE?
Told with a vivid, entertaining and authentic voice, this is a unique account of a dormitory girl’s life on the inside, at Queensland’s notorious Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission in the 1930s. Murri elder Ruth Hegarty writes for every stolen child—and in the great cause of Reconciliation.
Winner of the 1998 David Unaipon Award
Memoir
RUTH HEGARTY
BITTERSWEET JOURNEY
The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning memoir Is That You, Ruthie?. Ruth journeys towards freedom by marrying Joe Hegarty and moving to a nearby settlement. Humour, a supportive circle of family and friends, and Ruth’s own resourcefulness prevail against the food rationing and housing and job shortages in the settlement, and eventually the Hegartys achieve the basics of a home for their growing family.
Memoir
ALEXIS WRIGHT
PLAINS OF PROMISE
Vividly imagined, authentic in detail, with a forceful narrative and strong spiritual content, this novel heralds the arrival of an outstanding Australian fiction writer.
The Gulf Country ... is presented as a marvelous, magical landscape.
Liam Davison
Fiction
The bunya pine in the UQP Black Australian Writing logo represents the age-old east coast Bunya Bunya event where Indigenous nations gathered to celebrate and feast on the bunya nut harvest with a festival of games, music and dance, and the exchange of information and ideas.
First published 1996 by University of Queensland Press
Box 6042, St Lucia, Queensland 4067 Australia
Reprinted 2000
Film edition 2002
Reprinted film edition 2002 (twice)
This edition 2002, reprinted 2002, 2003 (three times), 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013
© Doris Pilkington/Nugi Garimara
This book is copyright. Except for private study, research, criticism or reviews, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission. Enquiries should be made to the publisher.
Typeset by University of Queensland Press
Printed in Australia by McPherson’s Printing Group
www.uqp.uq.edu.au
This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Sponsored by the Queensland Office of Arts and Cultural Development
Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
National Library of Australia
Pilkington, Doris, 1937–.
Follow the rabbit-proof fence.
New ed.
A823.3
ISBN 978 0 7022 3355 5 (pbk)
ISBN 978 0 7022 5204 4 (pdf)
ISBN 978 0 7022 5205 1 (epub)
ISBN 978 0 7022 5206 8 (kindle)
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