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Little Red Yellow Black Book reveals Aboriginal history

Little Red Yellow Black Book reveals Aboriginal history Courier Mail

Michael Lund

January 23, 2009 – “…………………. Bruce Pascoe’s The Little Red Yellow Black Book (Aboriginal Studies Press, $14.95)…………an introduction to indigenous Australia,…….. revised and expanded version of The Little Red, Yellow & Black (and Green and Blue and White Book) first published in 1994, originally written by Bill Jonas and Marcia Langton………………………

After more than 200 years of European involvement in Australia, Pascoe says people are now recognising they have much to learn from 60,000 years of Aboriginal history on the land.

“We are in trauma at the moment because it’s not raining in the country and we don’t understand how to react,” he says.

“We’ve probably farmed the country badly because we’ve tried to treat it like the European field and it’s not, our soils are incredibly thin and probably the least rich soil in the world.”

Pascoe says research into indigenous farming practices is now revealing that Aborigines had a far better understanding of how to cope with Australia’s harsh climate.

Little Red Yellow Black Book reveals Aboriginal history | The Courier-Mail

January 26, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized