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Kangkushot: The Life of Nyamal Lawman Peter Coppin / Jolly Read and Peter Coppin.

Kangkushot: The Life of Nyamal Lawman Peter Coppin / Jolly Read and Peter Coppin.
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ISBN 9781922059635
9781922059642 (electronic version)
Title Kangkushot The Life of Nyamal Lawman Peter Coppin / Jolly Read and Peter Coppin.
Edition Second revised ed.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014.
Description Electronic resource ; Online.
Note Reproduction Note: Monograph. Melbourne, Vic. RMIT Publishing. 2016.
Conditions of access Available to Museum Staff only.
Summary This is an updated edition of an epic and remarkable story of senior Nyamal lawman, Peter Coppin, who dreamed of a different life for his people. Despite great danger to themselves, he and others took part in the first Aboriginal strike in Australia, the Pilbara Strike in 1946.:Born in Yarrie country in Western Australia's Pilbara, he describes a life of danger, drama and hardship; his people forced to work on pastoral stations for meagre rations, their lives subject to the whims of white pastoralists, government agents and legislators. Coppin went on to be awarded a British Empire medal, was joint NAIDOC elder of the year - and won a police medal, as well as negotiating the first perpetual leases over Pilbara land and running a successful cattle station.
Subjects Coppin, Peter, 1920-
Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
Call number Informit database (IIC)
Internet Site Access to full text via Informit e-Library
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