My People
About this book
my people
Oodgeroo's writing has a unique place in Australian literature. When her poetry was first published in the 1960s, Kath Walker, as she was known then, provided a brave new voice for marginalised Aboriginal Australians. For the first time, an Aboriginal Australian was analysing and judging white Australians as well as her own people. She often made provocative and passionate pleas for justice:
We want hope, not racialism,
Brotherhood, not ostracism,
Black advance, not white ascendance:
Make us equals, not dependants.
This collection of poetry and prose is a reminder of Oodgeroo's contribution to Indigenous culture and the journey toward reconciliation. All Australians should be proud of this poet who dedicated her life to her people and her land.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- All One Race
- Let Us Not Be Bitter
- An Appeal
- The Curlew Cried
- Sounds Assail Me
- Tree Grave
- Dawn Wail for the Dead
- Dark Unmarried Mothers
- Not My Style
- Last of His Tribe
- The Child Wife
- The Young Girl Wanda
- Whynot Street
- White Australia
- Acacia Ridge
- The Unhappy Race
- Corroboree
- Stone Age
- Assimilation โ No!
- Integration โ Yes!
- The Teachers
- Ballad of Totems
- White Man, Dark Man
- The Protectors
- Intolerance
- Bwalla the Hunter
- No More Boomerang
- Bora
- Nona
- The Food Gatherers
- Aboriginal Charter of Rights
- Gifts
- Spinners
- A Song of Hope
- The Woor Woman
- The Dawn Is at Hand
- Municipal Gum
- My Love
- Colour Bar
- Tribal Justice
- Artist Son
- Son of Mine
- Dead Life
- ?
- Jarri's Love Song
- Community Rain Song
- Namatjira
- The Dispossessed
- Interlude
- The Bunyip
- Understand, Old One
- Gooboora, the Silent Pool
- We Are Going
- Cookalingee
- United We Win
- Song
- God's One Mistake
- Verses
- Civilisation
- Biami
- Freedom
- Return to Nature
- Hope
- Racism
- I Am Proud
- Then and Now
- Daisy Bindi
- The Past
- Time Is Running Out
- Balance
- China โฆ Woman
- Reed Flute Cave
- Oh Trugganner!
- Kiltara-Biljara* (Eagle Hawk)
- Mongarlowe
- Leave Straddie Unabridged
- Custodians of the Land
- Glossary
- Biography
- End User License Agreement
