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Annie Karrakayn Annie Karrakayn i(A7849 works by)
Born: Established: 1930 ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal Yanyuwa / Yanuwa ; Aboriginal
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1 Landing at Darwin i "The plane circled,", Eileen McDinny Manankurrmara , Annie Karrakayn , 1994 single work poetry
— Appears in: Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1994; (p. 66-67)
1 The Louse i "He scratched his head,", Annie Karrakayn , Eileen McDinny Manankurrmara , 1994 single work poetry
— Appears in: Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1994; (p. 64-65)
1 With Hobble Straps and Chains i "Hobble straps and chains,", Annie Karrakayn , Eileen McDinny Manankurrmara , 1994 single work poetry
— Appears in: Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1994; (p. 62-63)
1 Looking from the Porthole i "He looked all around,", Annie Karrakayn , 1994 single work poetry
— Appears in: Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1994; (p. 62-63)
1 Journey East Annie Karrakayn , Dinah Norman Marrangawi , 1994 single work poetry
— Appears in: Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1994; (p. 24-37)

"The following song was composed during the late 1988 and early 1989. It is a lengthy song which relates to incidents during the making of the film Buwarrala Akarriya (Journey East), when thirty Yanyuwa people and a film crew walked from Borroloola to Manangoora ... The whole event centred around the re-creation of taking ... initiates to Manangoora for the ceremonies which would make them men." (Bradley, J. J., Journey East in Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and othe Aboriginal Song Poems, University of Queensland Press, 1994, p 23)
1 y separately published work icon Yanyuwa Country : The Yanyuwa People of Borroloola Tell the History of Their Land Johnson Timothy Babarramila , Pyro Dirdiyalma , Dinny McDinny Nyilba , Isaac Walayungkuma , Jerry Brown Rrawajinda , Annie Karrakayn , Ron Rickett Murundu , Gordon Lansen Milyindirri , Mussolini Harvey , Don Miller Manarra , Tom Friday Wambarirri , Eileen McDinny Yakibijina , Judy Marrngawi , Ida Hampton Ninganga , Dinah Norman Marrangawi , Jemima Miller Wuwarlu , Bella Charlie Marajabu , Amy Friday Bajamalanya , Nora Jalirduma , Emily Wirdiwirdinya , Roddy Harvey Bayuma , Old Tim , John Bradley (illustrator), John Bradley (translator), Richmond : Greenhouse Publications , 1988 Z1604659 1988 anthology prose essay

'This book is our story for the land and ceremony, it is the story from the old people, the way that they told it to us. We will keep this story going with song and ceremony. There is still Law on the country. It has not gone, we still hold the Law.

This Law in this book is not a lie, it is the truth, we can't make it up.

We Yanyuwa people have had to fight for country. We have had to stand up to keep our Law safe. We talk, talk and still some people can't believe us; words aren't good enough anymore. You have to have something to put into somebody's hand, and that is what this book is for. It is to put into peoples' hands so they can see for themselves our truth. Our words are in this book, our land, our ceremony; it is our Law.

We want people to understand us. We want people to learn, Government people and people everywhere. This book is for everyone to learn.' Source: Foreword by Mussolini Harvey, Yanyuwa Elder; Chairman, Aboriginal Sacred Sites Protection Authority

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