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Näku means “bark” and Dhäruk means “the word” or “message” in #yolnu matha (tongue).
#NäkuDhäruk: The Bark Petitions third in #ClaireWright’ “democracy trilogy” Forgotten Rebels of #Eureka women during the 1850s Eureka Stockade, and You Daughters of Freedom white Australian women win the right to vote.

Wright spent a decade writing Näku Dhäruk (640-pages) living and working with the #Yirrkala community.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/18/clare-wright-wins-book-of-the-year-nsw-literary-awards

#firstNations

‘A book that should be read by all Australians’: Clare Wright wins book of the year at the NSW Literary awards

The historian won $50,000 for her nonfiction book Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions, which judges praised as deeply researched, ‘highly original’ and ‘vividly alive’

The Guardian

Peter Riley Oct 14, 2024

Naku Dharuk book review https://theconversation.com/clare-wrights-history-of-the-bark-petitions-is-a-work-of-intimate-storytelling-written-with-charismatic-authority-239935

Claire Wright
https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/naku-dharuk-the-bark-petitions-the-extraordinary-story-of-how-the-people-of-yirrkala-changed-the-course-of-australian-democracy

#NakuDharuk #BarkPetitions #firstnations #yolungu #Yirrkala

Clare Wright’s history of the Bark Petitions is a work of intimate storytelling, written with ‘charismatic authority’

The Yolngu Bark Petitions were immediately recognised by many as emblems of the unshakeable confidence of Indigenous Australians in their right to their territory.

The Conversation