Nändi ga Gatapana: Mum and the Buffalo

Djawundil Maymara, Children at Yirrkala School

$24.99

ISBN: 9781923179608

Format: Hardback

Pub Date: 15/07/2025

Category: Picture Storybooks, Domestic Animals & Pets, JUVENILE FICTION / General, PETS / General

Imprint: Indigenous Literacy Foundation

Price: $24.99

Pages: 32

When Mum, Ruthie and Roger the dog go to collect pandanus at Bawaka, they are not expecting to meet a big, black. . . buffalo!

How can they chase the buffalo away and get home safely?

A fun story about daily life in a remote Yol?u Community.

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Djawundil Maymara is a Ma?galili woman raised my a Gumatj Elder. She is a Yol?u mother and grandmother from Bawaka in north-east Arnhem Land. She is a member of the Bawaka Collective and the Gay'wu Group of Women and a co-author of Weaving Lives Together at Bawaka: North East Arnhem Land, Welcome to My Country and Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country Through Songlines.

Yirrkala School, a remote school in East Arnhem Land (NT), has a long-standing program of bilingual, 'both ways' education. Children from the school created the illustrations for ?ä??i ga Gatapa?a in a workshop led by ILF lifetime ambassador Alison Lester.

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