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Dujuan Hoosan Dujuan Hoosan i(19661621 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 y separately published work icon In My Blood It Runs : History. Learning. Love. Resistance Dujuan Hoosan , Margaret Anderson , Carol Turner , Adam Hill (illustrator), Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2023 26667379 2023 single work picture book children's

'This is the story of Dujuan Hoosan, a 10-year-old Arrernte and Garawa boy. A wise, funny, cheeky boy. A healer.

'Out bush, his healing power (Ngangkere) is calm and straight. But in town, it's wobbly and wild, like a snake.

'He's in trouble at school, and with the police. He thinks there's something wrong with him.

'Dujuan's family knows what to do: they send him to live out bush, to learn the ways of the old people, and the history that runs straight into all Aboriginal people.

'So he can be proud of himself.' (Publication summary)
1 Aboriginal People Were Here First Dujuan Hoosan , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 238 2020; (p. 20-22)
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