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Warra Warra Wai [electronic resource] : How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People

Darren Rix2024

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For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans. Winner, First Nations History award, Canberra Critics’ Circle Awards 2024 Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770. We know the European story from diaries, journals and letters. For the first time, this is the other side. Who were the people watching the Endeavour sail by? How did they understand their world and what sense did they make of this strange vision? And what was the impact of these first encounters with Europeans? The answers lie in tales passed down from 1770 and in truth-telling of the often more brutal engagements that followed. Darren Rix (a Gunditjmara-GunaiKurnai man, radio reporter and Archie Roach’s nephew) and his co-author Craig Cormick travelled to all the places on the east coast that were renamed b...