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Notes
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Dedicated to Esme Fisher.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Booval,
Booval - Bundamba area,
Ipswich area,
South East Queensland,
Queensland,:Cec Fisher
, 1991 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- My Name is Unityi"Tribes living rivers, creeks", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Grandmotheri"Born up in North Queensland on Aboriginal land", single work poetry (p. 2)
- Blacki"What is the colour of night", single work poetry (p. 3)
- Steel Railsi"Steel rails run across my body", single work poetry (p. 4)
- Search of My Aboriginality - Broken Wingsi"I sent my spirit flying away from me", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Memories and the Paini"You came ashore, pale like spirit people", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Goodbye Brumbyi"Out in channel country", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Lost Freedomi"Queensland, the land of our birth", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Roped Offi"At the pictures it was there to keep us apart", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Growing Upi"As a child growing up", single work poetry (p. 10)
- A Tribute to Aboriginal Womeni"Aboriginal women been around since this land began", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Doggeri"They called me the Champion Dogger", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Golden Corroboree Groundi"Last night I had a dream that seemed so real", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Black Prisoneri"Locked in a cell surrounded by the cold prison wall", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Don't Rushi"Aboriginal people before Cook had corroborees and walkabouts", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Black Historyi"White man's takeover of Australia tore our culture apart", single work poetry (p. 16)
- Swaggiei"I met a man his clothes all tattered and torn", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Keeper of the Dreamingi"He goes alone to visit the cave,", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Promisesi"Aboriginal people for a long time lived on promises", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Dingoi"Working in the channel country, in the outback,", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Cec Fisher - Enjoyable Poetry About Dreamtime, Everyday Life
1991
single work
column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 6 November no. 13 1991; (p. 21) The 'Unity Now' book of poetry by Cec Fisher goes from Dreamtime to the everyday situations and life's frustrations, death, joy and the family.
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Cec Fisher - Enjoyable Poetry About Dreamtime, Everyday Life
1991
single work
column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 6 November no. 13 1991; (p. 21) The 'Unity Now' book of poetry by Cec Fisher goes from Dreamtime to the everyday situations and life's frustrations, death, joy and the family.
Last amended 11 Nov 2008 12:45:36
Common subjects:
- Aboriginal dispossession
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal culture
- Aboriginality
- Indigenous pride
- Aboriginal women
- Aboriginal deaths in custody
- Aboriginal kinship
- Aboriginal assimilation (Government policy)
- Stolen Generations (Australia)
- Aboriginal fringe dwellers
- Natural disasters
- Animal slaughter
- Aboriginal self determination
- Aboriginal massacres, murders, poisonings
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