Yalata and Oak Valley Communities
Members of the Yalata and Oak Valley Communities worked with author Christobel Mattingley to tell this extraordinary story.
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Maralinga
The Anangu Story
The tragic legacy of Britain’s nuclear testing at Maralinga in the South Australian outback is now a well-documented chapter in the nation's history. But for the Aboriginal people whose land was used for the tests, there is a feeling that their voice has not been heard. Now a group of women from remote communities in South Australia’s far west coast have written and illustrated their story for the first time.
This is an extraordinary illustrated history, told from the indigenous perspective and created through a series of workshops, extensive research and community consultation. In words and pictures Yalata and Oak Valley community members, with author Christobel Mattingley, chronicle the story of the disruption of the millennia-old Anangu way of life and the dispossession and devastation of their people and country through: first, railway construction camps; then the mixed blessing of mission settlements; then graziers; and finally the British atomic testing and its shocking aftermath..
Through eyewitness accounts of the Anangu people themselves and plentiful authentic photos set against a background of stunning aboriginal art, we learn of life as it was before the coming of "whitefellas", the repercussions of each development and finally, their successful fight for survival and resettlement, and life today on their land.
'Maralinga - the Anangu Story is our story. We have told it for our children, our grandchildren and their children. We have told it for you.'
Warning: Members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are advised that this book may contain images and names of deceased persons.
An extraordinary teaching resource. Teacher's notes can be downloaded here.
290 x 250 mm, 64 pages, hard cover, full colour. Suits reading ages 10 through adult.
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