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"... They were thinking it was a barramundi or something. They were really glad, they all jumped into the lagoon, all the girls, to grab that fish ... But he was waiting for those two particular girls to swim so he could grab them ... They were all watching as the Moon took those two girls up, up, up, up, up, till they got to the cloud, up all the way, watching till they disappeared."
This traditional story is from the Pootchemunka family whose land includes Ti-Tree Lagoon south of Aurukun. The story is one of Indigenous Australia's wealth of moon stories. It was told in Wik-Mungkan and English by the old women who own the story, sitting beside the lagoon at their Outstation in the nineteen-seventies.
This traditional story is from the Pootchemunka family whose land includes Ti-Tree Lagoon south of Aurukun. The story is one of Indigenous Australia's wealth of moon stories. It was told in Wik-Mungkan and English by the old women who own the story, sitting beside the lagoon at their Outstation in the nineteen-seventies.
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Text translated from Wik-Munkan (Wik Mungkan) to English Language.
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Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 53 no. 2 2009; (p. 27-28)
— Review of Crocodile Story 2007 single work oral history ; Moon Story 2007 single work life story -
Aurukun Artists Create Two New Story Books
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: Torres News , 19 - 25 March no. 803 2008; (p. 9) "Now people everywhere have the chance to read about the real Aurukun heroes and see how the past and the present cannot be separated." Jeanie Adams (Torres News 19-25 March, 2008) -
With Respect
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 12 March no. 421 2008; (p. 45)
— Review of Crocodile Story 2007 single work oral history ; Moon Story 2007 single work life story
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With Respect
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 12 March no. 421 2008; (p. 45)
— Review of Crocodile Story 2007 single work oral history ; Moon Story 2007 single work life story -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 53 no. 2 2009; (p. 27-28)
— Review of Crocodile Story 2007 single work oral history ; Moon Story 2007 single work life story -
Aurukun Artists Create Two New Story Books
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: Torres News , 19 - 25 March no. 803 2008; (p. 9) "Now people everywhere have the chance to read about the real Aurukun heroes and see how the past and the present cannot be separated." Jeanie Adams (Torres News 19-25 March, 2008)
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