| ISBN |
9781922613998 |
| Author |
Fox, Joe (author) |
| Title |
The shield and the spear : the Kimberley Land Council / Joe Fox. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2022. |
| ©2022. |
| Description |
304 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), colour maps ; 28 cm. |
| Note |
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this item may contain names, recordings, images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions within this work which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the work was created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive. |
| Summary |
The Shield and the Spear is mostly told through first hand contributions from the people who were there. The reader is taken on a journey through historic Indigenous rights battles such asthe Noonkanbah blockade in 1979, the formation of the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and CultureCentre (KALACC) and the Kimberley Language Resource Centre (KLRC) in 1984; the formation of Magabala Books in 1987; and the controversial James Price Point gas hub. Plus the many commercial negotiations facilitated by the KLC. Commissioned by the KLC, Fox uses a combination of interviews and eyewitness accounts; quotes from the KLC Newsletter; quotes taken from historic documents, speeches, recordingsand meetings; and historical and contemporary photographs and illustrations. The book is roughly chronological and the reader hears unmediated accounts of what happened. |
| Subjects |
Kimberley Land Council (W.A.) |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Kimberley Region |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Western Australia |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Western Australia -- Kimberley Region |
| Sacred space -- Western Australia -- Noonkanbah |
| Sacred space -- Western Australia |
| Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Kimberley (W.A.) |
| Sacred sites (Aboriginal Australian) -- Western Australia -- Noonkanbah |
| Sacred sites (Aboriginal Australian) -- Western Australia |
| Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52) |
| Western Australia -- Politics and government |
| Noonkanbah (W.A.) -- History |
| Call number |
2022.179 |
