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Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 William Barak Myles Russell Cook , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , September no. 103 2019; (p. 24-27) 'Europeans set foot onto Naarm in the first decades of the 19th century. The colony known as Port Phillip District had for millennia been home to the Kulin nation, comprising Wathaurong, Boon Wurrung, Woiwurrung, Taunguerong and Dja Dja Wurrung language groups. They had witnessed the sea level rise, the coast recede; they had seen hills become islands and had witnessed climatic change as the ice age of the Pleistocene epoch ended. Early European settlers failed to recognise the complexity and sophistication of these groups, which lived sustainably on and with their Country. Naarm, which later came to be known as Melbourne, sits on the meeting point of the Birrarung (Yarra River) and its tributaries in the resource-rich lands and waterways of southeast Australia.' (Introduction)
1 White Face - Some Notes from a Fair-skinned Aboriginal Myles Russell Cook , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 8 May 2014;

'Carly Sheppard's latest work, white face playing as part of Melbourne's Next Wave festival this week, is a contemporary performance addressing personal experience as a fair-skinned Aboriginal person based in Melbourne...'
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