H̃ku Dh̃ruk : the Bark Petitions : how the people of Yirrkala changed the course of Australian democracy /

In this engaging narrative, Wright follows the story of petitions on bark created by the Yirrkala community in Arnhem Land in 1963, protesting bauxite mining on traditional lands. In 1963, a year of race riots in the United States and explosive agitation for civil rights worldwide, the Indigenous pe...

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