I'm the One that Know this Country! Indigenous author ISBN 9780855750848

ISBN 9780855750848

Cover Photograph by Sue Wicks

with notes on Middle Paman is the first comprehensive dictionary of a Cape York language to be published in over two decades The dictionary provides detailed information about the grammar

Introduction: Aboriginal jockeys — a proud past but an uncertain future

Chapter 1: Introduction-it takes courage to challenge colonial commemorations

I'm the One that Know this Country! Indigenous author ISBN 9780855750848Matutjara woman, Jessie Lennon, was born on a sheep station near Kingoonya in the 1920s. Aged six, she accompanied her father on a ceremonial journey with the Old People, as far west as Ooldea, in the time of Daisy Bates, and north to Coober Pedy, then a fledgling opal mining settlement. Her early life was spent travelling with family: on foot, on camels and sometimes 'jumping the train'. Later they sought whitefella work in towns on sheep and cattle