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1 form y separately published work icon Too Many Captain Cooks Paddy Fordham Wainburranga , ( dir. Penny McDonald ) Alice Springs : Chili Films , 1989 Z1393872 1989 single work film/TV

Paddy Wainburranga of the Rembarrnga tribe from Arnhem Land relates and paints the Rembarrnga history of Captain Cook. Typical of contemporary Aboriginal accounts, this story offers a markedly different perspective to the history upheld by non-Aboriginal Australians. The 'Captain Cook' of the title, in Northern Australian slang, refers to white people.
1 Too Many Captain Cooks Paddy Fordham Wainburranga , Tjoli Laiwongka , Penny McDonald (translator), Paddy Fordham Wainburranga (translator), Chips Mackinolty (translator), Miliwanga Cameron (translator), 1987 single work prose Indigenous story
— Appears in: North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature 1991; (p. 24-25) To Aboriginal people, Captain Cook is the archetypal first white man in Australia.
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