Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions Publisher / Australian Scholarly Publishing WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this book contains images and voices of deceased personsThis book was produced through the Emerging Indigenous Picture Book Mentoring Project

Estevan Oriol

Minister for Aboriginal Affairs 1990-96

organized geographically

and on our planet

Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions Publisher / Australian Scholarly Publishing WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres StraitIn 1963a year of agitation for civil rights worldwidethe Yolu of northeast Arnhem Land created the Yirrkala Bark Petitions: Naku Dharuk. The land grew a tongue and the land rights movement was born. Naku Dharuk is the story of a founding document in Australian democracy and the trailblazers who made it. It is also a pulsating picture of the ancient and enduring culture of Australias first peoples. And it is a masterful, groundbreaking history. Clare