Dark Emu

Dark Emu

by Bruce Pascoe
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/06/2025

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Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia's past is required. Now a Walkley Award-winning Documentary called ‘The Dark Emu Story’.

ISBN:
9781925768954
9781925768954
Category:
Colonialism & imperialism
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-06-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Magabala Books
Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe is an Australian Indigenous writer. He has worked as a teacher, farmer, a fisherman and an Aboriginal language researcher.

His books include Fog a Dox, a book for young adults that won the Prime Minister's Literary Awards in 2013, Convincing Ground about the Convincing Ground massacre, and Dark Emu, a book that challenges the claim that pre-colonial Australian Aboriginal peoples were hunter-gatherers.

In 2018, Bruce Pascoe was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.

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