![]() ![]() Now she is home for the funeral, and feeling “like my whole life I haven’t really been me.” When August finally reads Greenleaf’s story, she imagines him “trying to protect those ancestors at the same time as punishing them.”Īugust had fled overseas in a futile attempt to escape her own trauma. The paternalistic Reverend Greenleaf treated First Nations peoples as children, but he did try to protect them from the cruelty of white people who violently enslaved both adults and children. It’s strange, isn’t it? That word, fortunes. Underneath the earth – Ngunhadar-guwur What’s down there? Why those mining mob want to rip it all out and then it belongs to them? I think all those shiny things ngunhadar-guwur shouldn’t belong to anyone, only our mother. Here’s an example from Albert’s dictionary, referring to the looming destruction of Gondiwindi country by a tin-mining company: ![]() Some of his stories reveal critical plot details. Albert tells stories to illustrate the meanings of words, stories from Gondiwindi history, culture, environment and his own family. At Adelaide Writers Week, Winch described her struggle with the rules of literature: can a dictionary be part of a novel? Her approach shows that it can. ![]()
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