Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia

Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern AustraliaIn the author's own words, Dreaming Ecology 'explores a holistic understanding of the interconnections of people, country, kinship, creation and the living world within a context of mobility. Implicitly it asks how people lived so sustainably for so long'. It offers a telling critique of the loss of Indigenous life, human and non human, in the wake of white settler colonialism and this becoming 'cattle country'. It offers a fresh perspective on

In the story

" a brand-new song

Orwell's 'fairy story'

seeds and seedlings as well as native plant gardens open for inspection

and dreams of her mother and the life they once shared - of sitting on the verandah of their corrugated-iron home

for a new audience inspired and galvanised by her ongoing activism and her extraordinary example

has been a help to Benny

Tiger recalls his early life out bush in the desert

allowing us to produce abundant

beginner-friendly instructions given with step-by-step photos

This story entangles natural and human-made disasters stretching back from the British nuclear tests at Maralinga to a massively destructive storm in the present day

Still she perseveres