Ebook: Kangkushot : the life of Nyamal lawman Peter Coppin
Author: Peter Coppin Jolly Read
- Genre: History // Memoirs; Biographies
- Tags: Coppin Peter -- 1920-, Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Pilbara (W A ) -- Biography, Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Pilbara (W A ) -- Social conditions, Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Pilbara (W A ) -- Government relations, Nyamal (Australian people) -- Biography, Coppin Peter 1920-, HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
- City: Canberra
- Language: English
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An updated edition of an epic and remarkable story. In this powerfulmemoir, Peter Coppin's story emerges; told in fragments, momentsof time and memories. A senior Nyamal lawman, Coppin was born in Yarrie country inWestern Australia's Pilbara. His was a life of danger, drama andhardship; his people forced to work on pastoral stations for meagrerations, their lives subject to the whims of white pastoralists, Read more...