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    Tammy Damulkurra
    Tammy Damulkurra
    Tammy Damulkurra
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    Tammy Damulkurra

    By Derek Pugh

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    Fifteen year old Tammy Damulkurra lives in Maningrida - a remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land. Tammy has friends and likes the disco and thinks at last she has her first boyfriend but he cheats on her and she gets into a fight with her arch enemy, Sharon. Tammy's parents send her to the outstations for several weeks to cool off and she quickly gets used to the bush and fishing and hunting with relatives. When she returns to Maningrida her love life is a mess and it's not until she leaves again for school that she realizes that it's all going to be okay.

    Now a classic Australian story originally released in 1995 this second edition celebrates two decades of literacy education in remote communities in Australia.

    “a landmark in Australian literature” Maurice Rioli, MLA, 1995

    “a story that will strike chords with many teenagers,” with a “naive quality and adolescent voice (which) makes it instantly accessible” B Richardson

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDerek Pugh
    Release dateDec 1, 2013
    ISBN9780992355821
    Tammy Damulkurra
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    Derek Pugh

    Derek Pugh, educator, consultant and author, runs consultancies in brain compatible education and story telling in education. After a career of teaching in Australia's Northern Territory and internationally, Derek Pugh currently lives in Lombok Indonesia.

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      Tammy Damulkurra - Derek Pugh

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      TAMMY

      DAMULKURRA

      Derek Pugh and the

      Sunshine Girls

      Charlene Bonson Djarpi-Djarpi

      Jacqueline Phillips Galamarrjin

      Rhonda Brown Guykaladawuy

      Sabrina Yulumurru Dhurrkay

      Roseanne Darcy Wangaytcha

      Justina Williams Wilinggirra

      Alison Cooper Gangarnda

      Eileen Bonson Djinjirrow

      Evette Dawn Pascoe

      Simonne Lawrence

      This novel is a negotiated text written by Derek Pugh with ‘The Sunshine Girls’ of Eagle Class, Maningrida Community Education Centre. Alison Cooper Gangarnda owns and wrote the Dreamtime story about the dog and Charleen Bonson Djarpi-Djarpi wrote the Dreamtime story about the moon. Others who helped with the story were Terizita Cooper Jinabalpma, Kyline Cooper Ritbalbal, Glenda Lalaywarra Birritjama Albertson and Miriam Murphy Dhuldhul.

      FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1995 BY Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.

      Text © Derek Pugh, Charlene Bonson Djarpi-Djarpi, Alison Cooper Gangarnda, Jacqueline Phillips Galamarrjin, Evette Dawn Pascoe, Sabrina Yulumurru Dhurrkay, Rhonda Brown Guykaladawuy, Eileen Bonson Djinjirrow, Simonne Lawrence, Justina Williams Wilinggirra, Roseanne Darcy Wangaytcha 1995. Intellectual rights returned by ASP to Derek Pugh September 2013.

      E-BOOK EDITION © Derek Pugh 2013 with revised and edited text.

      SECOND EDITION PUBLISHED by Derek Pugh 2013 at Smashwords

      Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced by any process whatsoever without the written permission of the author/publisher.

      Cover and Interior Design: Raven Tree Design

      National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry : (paperback)

      Author: Pugh, Derek, author.

      Title: Tammy Damulkurra / Derek Pugh and the Sunshine Girls.

      Edition: Second edition.

      ISBN: 9780992355821

      Target Audience: For secondary school age.

      Subjects: Burarra (Australian people)--Northern Territory--Arnhem

      Land--Juvenile fiction.

      Aboriginal Australians--Juvenile fiction.

      Youth, Aboriginal Australian--Juvenile fiction.

      Australia--Fiction.

      Other Authors/Contributors:

      Sunshine Girls.

      Dewey Number: A823.3

      Contact: derekpugh1@gmail.com

      Website: www.derekpugh.com.au

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Title

      Copyright

      Author's Note

      1 The Fight

      2 The Disco

      3 Johnny Manjulukun

      4 Tammy Has to Leave

      5 The Journey

      6 Gochilawa

      7 Bush Tucker

      8 The Moon Story

      9 Night Fishing

      10 Bush Medicine

      11 Back to Maningrida

      12 Bad News

      13 Leaving Maningrida

      Also By

      Author’s Note

      This novel is a negotiated text written with ‘The Sunshine Girls’ of Eagle Class, Maningrida Community Education Centre in 1994. Maningrida is a remote Aboriginal community on the north coast of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Like the main characters most of the girls belong to the Burarra tribe, whose lands stretch along the coast east of the Blyth River towards Milingimbi.

      When the story was written the girls ranged in age from 13 to 18 years and were studying the General Studies course. I searched catalogues and book stores for reading material that was relevant to the lives of contemporary Aboriginal teenagers and, because I could find none, we wrote this novel. The story was much directed by the girls and elements of its characters and events, though fictional, could be found in many teenagers in the Maningrida community.

      Now, 20 years later, a shortage of relevant texts still exists for remote community teenagers. The first edition of Tammy has long since gone out of print but there continues to be a demand for it, particularly from schools and libraries, and so it has now joined the 21st century as an e-book and once again as a paper back. I look forward to a continuing exchange with a new generation of young people in the bush.

      Readers interested in Maningrida, Arnhem Land, Aborigines or remote area living and life as a visiting teacher are referred to my memoir, Turn Left at the Devil Tree, which also describes the process of writing this book.

      Derek Pugh, 2013

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      THE FIGHT

      Tammy woke and stretched herself lazily on her foam mattress. She lay for a while before standing up quietly so as not to wake her sister who was curled into a small ball under the sheet. The old lady, her grandmother, snored softly on a mattress by the louvers.

      As

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