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Our Nyoongah Folk single work   poetry   "By the side of the grave on that sunny day, in a sea of faces, I saw"
Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Our Nyoongah Folk
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Notes

  • Editor's note: From the book, 'Those Who Remain Will Always Remember', by various writers. According to Nicole Swallow, Yaluritja had this book for a long time and this was his favourite poem from the book. Walter G Eatts has given permission for it to be published in the Koori Mail.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Our Nyungah Folk
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Those Who Remain Will Always Remember : An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing Anne Brewster (editor), Angeline O'Neill (editor), Rosemary van den Berg (editor), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2000 Z339537 2000 anthology poetry prose biography essay short story life story autobiography biography interview non-fiction essay prose Indigenous story (taught in 4 units)

    'Culture and identity, suffering and the triumph of survival thread their way through the short stories, poems, legends, song lyrics, essays and commentaries in this... anthology of Aboriginal writing.

    Representing a range of regional and cultural differences, age groups and social circumstances, it is a testimony to the importance of the past in the construction of a better future.' Source: Publisher's blurb

    Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2000
    pg. 83
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Koori Mail no. 316 17 December 2003 Z1090791 2003 newspaper issue 2003 pg. 17
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