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Some nights, the roo

Ghost in gum tree, Adelaide Parklands, dusk
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Two solitary campers in the dunes at Antechamber Bay, our first night on the island. The moon is brightful overhead when I'm ripped from my dreams by the presence and weight of a kangaroo on me. A giant roo, so heavy, squashing. I lie with stillness for a long time. When I eventually drag myself up out of my canvas cocoon I can't see him, he's dissolved into the sheltering scrub. Disappointed, relieved, I burrow back into sleep. In the morning Robyn reports her encounter with a wombat when she ventured out for a midnight jish. But this was no wombat sitting on me, it was kangaroo. Something about that heavy tail, those thumper bumper feet, the sweet grassy breath.

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Publication Type  Book
Citation Key  312
Year of Publication  1999
Authors  Tuhiwai Smith, L.
Publisher  Zed Books Ltd
Number of Pages  208
ISBN Number   1856496244; 1856496236
Key Words  ethnology, colonialism, indigenous, methodology
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