Blue Mountains Dreaming: The Aboriginal Heritage

Traces the history of the blue Mountains Aboriginal tribes, the Gundungurra and the Dharug. History of Aborigines of the Blue Mountains district, giving an account of their lifestyles, languages, legends and European contact. Research is based on discoveries of art sites, shelters, tools and stone arrangements, oral histories and the early writings of European explorers and settlers. Includes chapter notes and references, tables of Aboriginal food sources and English-Dharug and English-Gundungurra dictionaries. The book’s nine articles were written by members of the Aboriginal Resource Collective.

Includes a dictionary of the Gundungurra language and the Dharug language.

160 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. #0621