This is the story of Dingo, Wombat, Crow and their friends as they struggle to exist alongside the devastation of mining that is tearing up their beautiful homeland. This powerful children's parable/cautionary tale on the destruction and havoc that mining causes to the land and to community is both touching and hard-hitting. Book consists of four chapters: Dingo's Tree, The Raindrop, The Tree that Walked and The Last Tree.
Gladys Milroy is from the Pilbara region in Western Australia. She born in 1927 and was taken as a young child and placed in the Parkerville Children's Home. Her people's country is the Palyku country of the eastern Pilbara. Gladys's story is told in her daughter Sally Morgan's book My Place.
Jill Milroy is a Palyku woman whose country is in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. She is Dean of the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia. The key focus of her current research is in Aboriginal story systems and she creates and tells stories with her mother, Gladys Milroy, a Palyku Elder. With more than twenty years experience in higher education, Jill was recently re-appointed for a second term to the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council, which provides key policy advice to the Federal Minister for Education Science and Training.
About the Book
Paperback
64 pages
Age 6+
