Maralinga's long shadow : Yvonne's story

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The work Maralinga's long shadow : Yvonne's story represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Maralinga's long shadow : Yvonne's story

Title remainder

Yvonne's story

Statement of responsibility

Christobel Mattingley

Creator

• Mattingley, Christobel, 1931-

Author

• Mattingley, Christobel, 1931-

Subject

• Art - Artists - Women
• Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
• Social organisation - Kinship
• Edwards, David, died 2004
• Edwards, David, -2004
• Atomic bomb -- South Australia | Maralinga -- Testing -- Biography
• Edwards family
• Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia | Maralinga Region -- Biography
• Literature and stories - Juvenile
• Atomic bomb -- South Australia | Maralinga -- Testing
• History - Biographies - Indigenous
• Community organisations - Land rights
• Race relations - Reconciliation
• Defence - Missile and weapons testing - Nuclear weapons
• Health - Cancer
• Pitjantjatjara (Australian people) -- South Australia | Maralinga
• History - Genealogy and family history
• Pitjantjatjara (Australian people) -- History -- Biography
• Edwards, Yvonne, 1950-2012

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Grandfather and Grandmother telling lots of stories. They had to live at Yalata. Their home was bombed. That was their home where the bomb went off. They thought it was mamu tjuta, evil spirits, coming. Everyone was frightened, thinking about people back in the bush. Didn't know what bomb was. Later told it was poison. Parents and grandparents really wanted to go home, used to talk all the time to get their land back.'..Yvonne Edwards was just six years old when the first bombs of the nuclear tests at Maralinga were detonated in 1956. The tests continued until 1963 and their consequences profoundly affected her family and community...This powerful book, by award-winning author Christobel Mattingley, honours Yvonne Edwards' legacy as a highly respected artist and community elder. -- back cover

Cataloging source

VMON

Dewey number

994.2380049915

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

juvenile