Ngalak Yongka Miyak Koorliny
Visiting the Kangaroo-Moon Site
$24.00
- Paperback
40 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2026
Summary
This story comes from the wise and ancient language of the First People of the Western Australian south coast.
Yongka Miyak is a special ancestral place where, imprinted in granite, is the shape of a resting kangaroo surrounded by the phases of the moon. Ngalak Yongka Miyak Koorliny is a story about elders taking young ones to sacred sites to learn their connection to the ancestors.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760803186 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760803189 |
| Author: | Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories, Kim Scott, Graeme Miniter, Wirlomin Noongar Language, Glenda Williams, Boydon Coyne |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWA Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 226mm x 275mm |
About The Author
Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories
Kim Scott is a multi-award winning novelist. Benang (1999) was the first novel by an Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award and That Deadman Dance (2010) also won Australia’s premier literary prize, among many others. His work has been translated and published in China, India, Holland, Japan and France.
Kim was awarded a Centenary Medal and in 2012 was inaugural Western Australian of the Year. He is a member of the West Australian Writers Hall of Fame and in 2022 was declared a State Cultural Treasure. Kim is currently employed as Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University.
Graeme Miniter was born at the Gnowangerup Mission to parents Roy Miniter and Elaine Miniter ne. Brown. He attended primary school in Borden, Mt Lockyer and Spencer Park and secondary school in Albany. He has worked for the education Department as an Aboriginal Liaison Officer, Department of Indigenous Affairs and the Southern Aboriginal Corporation as a program manager. He also served as Chairperson of the Executive Board at South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council. He currently manages Wilyun Pools, Wirlomin’s cultural base.
The Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project Incorporated is an association with aims of reclaiming, supporting, promoting and maintaining Wirlomin Noongar cultural heritage. They work to reclaim Wirlomin stories and dialect, in support of the maintenance of Noongar language, and to share them with Noongar families and communities as part of a process to claim, control and enhance Wirlomin Noongar cultural heritage.
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