#bruce pascoe

Page 40-41 of "Dark Emu" by Bruce Pascoe (Australian Aboriginal author)

After Pirampa (white people) arrived Anungu were forced to move away or were discouraged from looking after country the old way, by patch burning. That was when Anungu first started to see the huge bushfires that have killed off the country, in summers after years of good rainfall. When the first Pirampa started burning, Anungu were very worried because white people did not know the proper way to burn, nor did they know where the sacred places were, and so they burnt places that should have been left alone.²⁰

20. Lynn Baker (comp.), Mingkiri: A Natural History of Uluru by the Mutitjulu Community (Edith Richards et al.), IAD Press, Alice Springs, 1996, p. 49.

In actuality, he is evidently white - as per his ancestry, ie. all four of his grandparents were English. Yet he goes so far in his claim to aboriginal identity that he wrote an award winning booking on indigenous history and practices and operates a huge farm and company selling indigenous produce that he refers to in said book.

If you want to learn more about indigenous food culture, ie. more sustainable and nutritious eating -- look to actually indigenous people. That requires some work, but here's one example: Karlos Baca, an Indigenous Foods Activist from the Southern Ute Nation

https://www.instagram.com/tasteofn8vcuisine/?hl=en

Karlos Baca, formerly a chef, and now a teacher says his students travel from places where there are more gas stations than grocery stores.

"'Here I'm teaching them how to survive the American food system.' Baca is on the front line of a food war, one being waged against indigenous people. The way he sees it, the first casualty is health. 'That's why we need to decolonise our diets,' he says."

A new lager created in collaboration with Bruce Pascoe has stirred controversy due to the inclusion of a Yuin men’s initiation Dreamtime story on the can.

Dark Emu Lager is a beer that was created in collaboration between the Sailor’s Grave Brewing Company in Orbost and Yuin, Bunurong, and Tasmanian author Bruce Pascoe.

Pascoe is the author of the book “Dark Emu” which entered the Australian literary canon in 2014 when it challenged the dominant idea of Aboriginal society being a hunter-gatherer society.

Warren Ngaarae Foster a multi-disciplinary artist danced in the production of Pascoe’s Dark Emu.

He said the Yuin story written on the can of alcohol is special and sacred to the Yuin people.

“It’s one of our lore stories that our old people tell the young men when they have gone through their initiation”.

Tom Griffiths at Inside Story. Reading Bruce Pascoe

The author’s compelling yet curiously old-fashioned account of Indigenous history has inspired and empowered

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