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Jukuna Mona Chuguna Jukuna Mona Chuguna i(A80083 works by) (a.k.a. Jukuna)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Walmajarri / Walmatjarri
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1 3 y separately published work icon The Girl from the Great Sandy Desert The Girl from the Great Sandy Desert : Stories from the Walmajarri Jukuna Mona Chuguna , Pat Lowe , Mervyn Street (illustrator), Broome : Magabala Books , 2015 8299681 2015 single work autobiography children's

'The Girl from the Great Sandy Desert is the remarkable account of the life of Mana, a young Walmajarri girl and her family in the desert country of north-west Australia. A collection of accessible stories that elucidate the rich cultural lives of pre-contact Aboriginal Australians.' (Source: Magabala Books website)
1 My Life in the Desert Jukuna Mona Chuguna , 2014 single work life story
— Appears in: Remembered by Heart 2014; (p. 78-85)
1 Jukuna's Story Jukuna Mona Chuguna , Eirlys Richards (translator), 2004 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Two Sisters : Ngarta and Jukuna 2004; (p. 81-133)
1 9 y separately published work icon Two Sisters : Ngarta and Jukuna Ngarta Jinny Bent , Jukuna Mona Chuguna , Pat Lowe , Eirlys Richards (translator), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2004 Z1091243 2004 selected work autobiography biography 'For the first 150 years of European settlement in Australia the Walmajarri people of the Great Sandy Desert remained untouched by Western influence. The First World War came and went, and left no impression in the sandhills. The Second World War had faint reverberations, but no one in the desert had heard of Hitler or Churchill, nor even the Australian prime minister John Curtin. The Vietnam War, about which they had heard nothing, was still in progress when two sisters, Jukuna and Ngarta, finally emerged from the Great Sandy Desert. It would be later still before they first heard the word Australia and learned that they were not only Walmajarri, but also Australians. This is their extroadinary story.' (Source: Back cover, 2004 edition)
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