In My Blood It Runs
History. Learning. Love. Resistance
Published on 31. October 2023
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-1-76126-377-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is the story of Dujuan Hoosan, a 10-year-old Arrernte/Garawa boy. A wise, funny, cheeky boy. A healer. Out bush, his Ngangkere is calm and straight. But in town, it's wobbly and wild, like a snake. He's in trouble at school, and with the police. He thinks there's something wrong with him. Dujuan's family knows what to do: they send him to live out bush, to learn the ways of the old people, and the history that runs straight into all Aboriginal people. So he can be proud of himself. Illustrated by Archibald Prize-winner, Blak Douglas.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan Australia
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 8 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 242 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
486 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-76126-377-4 (9781761263774)
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Persons
Dujuan Hoosan is an Arrente and Garrwa boy who grew up between his two homelands at Sandy Bore outstation near Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and Spring Creek near Borroloola, situated on the banks of the McArthur River in the Gulf of Carpentaria. When he was 12, Dujuan became the youngest person ever to address the Human Rights Council at the United Nations. He asked global leaders to support Australia to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years in line with United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Rights. He also asked that First Nations languages be taught in schools. In June 2020, he was awarded the Liberty Victoria Young Voltaire Human Rights Award.