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Pila Nguru - The Spinifex People
by Scott Cane
Price $45.00 
- About the Book
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It was 1952 and the Spinifex People were about to meet white Australia.
The People of the Sun and Shadow, the Spinifex People, were cocooned within the Spinifex plains of the Western Desert, for hundreds of generations until shaken from their nomadic solitude by the atomic shock of Maralinga. When they returned to their homelands in the 1980s, after their displacement, they found the southern third of their country had been converted into a nature reserve, the northern third leased to Aboriginal people in the north and the centre deemed vacant crown land. Pila Nguru is a detailed account, in words and artworks, of the culture and history of the Spinifex People, an almost invisible people in modern Australia.
Includes 30 paintings in full colour and over fifty photographs.
- Categories
- Indigenous Writing, Current Affairs, Culture & Social History, Art & Photography, History
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- ISBN11
- 1 86368 348 8
- ISBN13
- 9 781863 683487
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- Large Format Illustrated
- Pages
- 260
- Height x Width mm
- 281 x 221
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Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things