WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL –

First Edition.

In this powerful and moving oral history, Nyamal lawman Peter Coppin, or Kangkushot, remembers a life of danger, drama and hardship, but also one that was significant in the movement towards social justice and social awareness for Australian society as a whole. With friend Jolly Read, Coppin also records the integral and loving relationship between the Nyamal and their country, the source of their spiritual emotional strength, their Dreaming and their Law.

• ix, 198 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm. #130626 (prev ownership name)

• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Land rights – Mining industry
  • Race relations
  • Politics and Government – Political action – Activism
  • Government policy – State and territory – Western Australia
  • Community organisations – Civil rights and citizenship
  • Enterprises – Pastoral industry
  • History – Biographies – Indigenous
  • Economic sectors – Agriculture and horticulture – Pastoral industry
  • Community organisations – Social welfare
  • Occupations – Pastoral industry workers
  • Mining industry – Manganese
  • Mining industry – Tin
  • Culture – Relationship to land
  • Enterprises – Mining
  • Nyamal people (A58) (WA SF51-05)
  • Pilbara area (WA SF50, SF51, SG50)

  Subject:

  • Coppin, Peter
  • Nyamal (Australian people) — Biography
  • Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Biography