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Seafaring : canoeing ancient songlines / Victor Briggs.

Seafaring : canoeing ancient songlines / Victor Briggs.
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ISBN 9781922613592 (paperback)
Name Briggs, Victor author.
Title Seafaring : canoeing ancient songlines / Victor Briggs.
Published Broome, W.A. : Magabala Books, 2023.
©2023
Description 111 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references.
Summary 'For various reasons, this story cannot be proven. But that does not matter to me because in my Aboriginal way of being and knowing, stories like my uncle's do not need modern scientific proof to have validity - the role of story in Indigenous community is key to all aspects of our Culture. 'A long time ago Indigenous Australian seafarers sailed to Hawaii on the trade winds. When they got there they exchanged skills, information and technology. A story told to his uncle by an Indigenous Hawaiian elder would change the shape of Gumbaynggirr/Gamilaroi man Victor Briggs' life, and send him on a search for answers to the question: were Indigenous Australians master navigators of one of the world's largest oceans, the South Pacific? Is this yet another example of suppression of the past in colonial history? Bringing voice to his ancestors and the power of oral storytelling, Victor shares his compelling journey into the past through research, stories and visions.
Subjects Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore.
Aboriginal Australians -- History
Hawaiians -- Folklore
Hawaiians -- History
Ocean travel -- Pacific Ocean
Explorers
History - Cultural
Islands of the Pacific
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