Talking sideways : stories and conversations from Finniss Springs /
'That's the way it is with us mob. We were brought up to talk kind of sideways. That's the respectful, true Aboriginal way.' Reg Dodd grew up at Finniss Springs, on striking desert country bordering south Australia's Lake Eyre. For the Arabunna and for many other Aboriginal...
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St Lucia, Queensland :
University of Queensland Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- On talking sideways
- An Arabunna family story
- The love of a difficult place
- Growing up two ways
- Time travelling
- The mission, the saddle and the bottle
- Trouble
- The blow-up and the aftermath
- Mixed blessings
- Staying close to the ground
- Unlikely alliances
- Imagining the future
- Creation stories, personal stories
- Sharing a song.