Raparapa: Stories From The Fitzroy River Drovers

WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURE
Offers an Aboriginal perspective on the history of the Aboriginal drovers and stockmen of the Kimberley, Western Australia.
The determination of senior Nyikina lawman, John Watson, to present an Aboriginal perspective has produced personal stories that show how these hard-working men adapted to station life and why they became the backbone of the pastoral industry in northern Western Australia. Mustering and droving in open country for several months a year, the stockmen freely travelled through their traditional country and were able to maintain law and culture and land management practices.

NEW REVISED EDITION. Previously published: 1989.

Stories from the Fitzroy River drovers Barney Barnes, Jimmy Bird, Peter Clancy, Lochy Green, Eric Lawford, Jock Shandley, Harry Watson, Ivan Watson and John Watson.
Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — Biography. | Aboriginal Australian stockmen — Western Australia — Kimberley — History. | Aboriginal Australian stockmen — Western Australia — Kimberley — Biography. | Drovers — Western Australia — Kimberley — Biography. | Ranch life — Western Australia — Kimberley — History. | Beef cattle — Western Australia — Kimberley — History.
288 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., col. maps, ports. ; 24 cm. #140623