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Whispers of This Wik Woman
Author(s): Fiona Doyle (Author)
- Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2004
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 152 pages
- ISBN-10: 0702234613
- ISBN-13: 9780702234613
Book Description
This absorbing and personal account of Wik activist Jean George Awumpun offers a rare understanding of Aboriginal identity and traditional land. To illustrate her proud Alngith Wikwaya beginnings, Awumpun’s early history is told through family member and Alngith descendant Fiona Doyle. This ancestral history combines with the story of Awumpun’s struggle in the Wik native title claims, which advanced the earlier Mabo Decision onto mainland Australia.
Using photographs, traditionally inspired art and language terms, Fiona Doyle invites us into the heart of Cape York’s Wikwaya country.
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About the Author
Born Maryann Fiona George on the 2nd January, 1969 on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait Fiona Doyle is the daughter of a Mbaiwum Women and a father of Austrian origin. Fiona, who writes under the Aboriginal name Oochunyung currently resides in Brisbane with her husband Danny and three daughters.A graduate of NAISDA Fiona has incorporated dance, drama and poetry in her artistic expression with the intent to share, educate and proclaim the Indigenous heartbeat of her People. Although Whispers of this Wik Women is her first published book Fiona has written two children’s books titled Sandbeach Girl and Looking for Yams.
