Book launch by the Indigenous Education and Research Centre & The Cairns Institute on Thursday 14 December 2017 | 2:00 – 4:00pm | Cairns Institute Lecture Theatre D3.054 | All welcome | RSVP valdawallace@outlook.com by 8 December 2017

Bridging historical scholarship and Aboriginal oral tradition, this innovative book tells the story of the Gugu Badhun people of the Valley of Lagoons in North Queensland. It provides new insights into Aboriginal–European interactions, and new understandings of how Aboriginal people sustained their identities and exercised agency.

Much of the story is told in the words of Gugu Badhun people themselves. Interviews are interspersed with commentary and analysis by the four authors, one of whom, Yvonne Cadet-James, is herself a Gugu Badhun elder.