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Paddy Fordham Wainburranga Paddy Fordham Wainburranga i(A106374 works by)
Also writes as: Gela Nga-Mirraitja
Born: Established: 1932 ; Died: Ceased: 2006
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Rembarrnga
(Storyteller) assertion
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1 [Extract] The Law About Singing Out i "My father used to do it. We used to get up early in the morning", Gela Nga-Mirraitja , 2010 single work poetry extract
— Appears in: The ABC Book of Australian Poetry : A Treasury of Poems for Young Children 2010; (p. 74)
1 form y separately published work icon Too Many Captain Cooks Paddy Fordham Wainburranga , ( dir. Penny McDonald ) Alice Springs : Chili Films , 1989 Z1393872 1989 single work film/TV

Paddy Wainburranga of the Rembarrnga tribe from Arnhem Land relates and paints the Rembarrnga history of Captain Cook. Typical of contemporary Aboriginal accounts, this story offers a markedly different perspective to the history upheld by non-Aboriginal Australians. The 'Captain Cook' of the title, in Northern Australian slang, refers to white people.
1 Talking History Paddy Fordham Wainburranga , 1988 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Land Rights News , July vol. 2 no. 9 1988; (p. 46) North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature 1991; (p. 145-148)
1 Too Many Captain Cooks Paddy Fordham Wainburranga , Tjoli Laiwongka , Penny McDonald (translator), Paddy Fordham Wainburranga (translator), Chips Mackinolty (translator), Miliwanga Cameron (translator), 1987 single work prose Indigenous story
— Appears in: North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature 1991; (p. 24-25) To Aboriginal people, Captain Cook is the archetypal first white man in Australia.
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