WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL –

The Man from the Sunrise Side is the autobiography of Ambrose Mungala Chalarimeri, a Kwini man from the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia. His story is a powerful glimpse of life as a young boy growing up on a mission and as a man whose skills include horsemanship and mustering, tracking and hunting, bush mechanics and horticulture. His life story is a fascinating account of a people and region that have experienced upheaval and change on a monumental scale. In these pages, the reader will gain an insight into the lives, culture and customs of the people who inhabited this other Eden’. Told with candour and in Ambrose’s own voice The Man from the Sunrise Side is a wonderful way to understand Aboriginal Australia.

“In classic storytelling style, Ambrose Mungala Chalarimeri speaks from the heart in this powerful life story. It is an extrordinary account of people from the far north Kimberley of Western Australia who have experienced change and upheaval on a monumental scale. Chalarimeri tells of the lives and customs of his ‘people from the sunrise side’, and what he calls ‘the clash of two cultures’.”

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• xiv, 226 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

• Stories and motifs – Animals
• Stories and motifs
• Religions – Christianity – Missions
• History – Biographies – Indigenous – Autobiographies
• Gunin people (K36) (WA SD52-10)
• Kalumburu (WA Drysdale East Kimberley SD52-09)

Subject:

• Chalarimeri, Ambrose Mungala, 1940-
• Drysdale River Mission — History
• Catholic Church — Missions — Western Australia — Kimberley — History
• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — Biography
• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — History

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