Mawalan marika biography of martin cruz

This person appears as a part of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume This biographical entry was contributed by Australian Indigenous Autobiography Archive. Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity. After his initiation, Wandjuk started hunting crocodiles that he sold for skins at the Yirrkala Mission.

As a traditional owner of the area, Wandjuk played an important role in ceremonies at Yirrkala. The missionary sentenced him to six months of labour, but his father took him to Bremer Island for twelve months instead. I see the different country and mix with white society. Which is my own land, where is the different moiety, where that land is. This began at the age of seven, when his father took him to Dhalingbuy or Arnhem Bay.

He spent eighteen months in training with other young men before his parents returned.

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At sixteen years of age, after returning from Darwin, he began to assist the anthropologist Ronald Berndt with his research. They rescued the pilot; but only after he assured them he was American and not Japanese. This was tiring work, which left them with blisters of their hands. He traded what he collected for tobacco, which served as the currency at Yirrkala.

In the government gave Wandjuk and the Yolngu back their homelands near Yirrkala.