TY - BOOK AU - Arden,Harvey AU - Osborn,Mike TI - Dreamkeepers: a spirit-journey into Aboriginal Australia SN - 0060169168 AV - GN667.W5 A73 1994 U1 - 299/.92 20 PY - 1994/// KW - Aboriginal Australians KW - Western Australia KW - Kimberley KW - Social life and customs KW - Religion KW - Philosophy, Australian aboriginal KW - Religions - Christianity - Missions KW - aiatsiss KW - Culture - Relationship to land KW - Ceremonies - Smoking ceremonies KW - Stories and motifs - Eagles / hawks / crows KW - Substance use - Alcohol - Availability, dry areas etc KW - Land rights - Mining industry KW - Music KW - Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900 KW - Art - Crafts - Advertising and marketing KW - Art - Sand and ground design KW - Art - Subjects - Wandjina KW - Halls Creek (WA East Kimberley SE52-10) KW - aiatsisp KW - Billiluna (Central WA Tanami Desert SE52-14) KW - Kununurra (WA East Kimberley SD52-14) KW - Mowanjum (WA West Kimberley SE51-07) KW - Balgo / Wirrimanu (Central WA Tanami Desert SF52-02) KW - Great Sandy Desert (WA SE51, SF51) KW - Billiluna / Kururrungku (Central WA Tanami Desert SE52-14) N1 - Cultural Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this book may contain images or names of people who have since passed away N2 - Popular account of authors encounters with Aboriginal people and culture in the Kimberley and Great Sandy Desert; definition of Dreamtime, contemporary political background; based on conversations with Daisy Utemorrah, Ted Carlton, Jim Ward, Danny Wallace, George Wallaby, Reg Birch, Betty Johnston, Jack Rogers, Billy Oscar, Banjo Woorunmarra and David Mowaljarlai; visits to Wandjina art site, Waringarri, Mowanjum, Emu Creek, Kununurra, Balgo, Halls Creek and Yiyilu; relationship to land, parallels with native Americans; land rights; alcohol abuse; station life; mythology (eagle hawk, Billaluna region, Wandjina); mining industry; ATSIC; Christianity; law and punishment; healing; smoking ceremony; music; Pigeon (Jandamarra); Mowaljarlais Body of Australia vision ER -