Nndi ga Gatapana: Mum and the Buffalo
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Nndi ga Gatapana: Mum and the Buffalo
By (Author) Djawundil Maymara
By (author) Children at Yirrkala School
Indigenous Literacy Foundation
Indigenous Literacy Foundation
15th July 2025
Australia
Classifications
Fiction
Domestic animals and pets
Physical Properties
Hardback
32
Width 260mm, Height 213mm
300g
Description
When Mum, Ruthie and Roger the dog go to collect pandanus at Bawaka, they are not expecting to meet a big, black. . . buffalo! How can they chase the buffalo away and get home safely A fun story about daily life in a remote Yolu Community.
Author Bio
Djawundil Maymara is a Magalili woman raised my a Gumatj Elder. She is a Yolu mother and grandmother from Bawaka in north-east Arnhem Land. She is a member of the Bawaka Collective and the Gay'wu Group of Women and a co-author of Weaving Lives Together at Bawaka: North East Arnhem Land, Welcome to My Country and Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country Through Songlines. Yirrkala School, a remote school in East Arnhem Land (NT), has a long-standing program of bilingual, 'both ways' education. Children from the school created the illustrations for i ga Gatapaa in a workshop led by ILF lifetime ambassador Alison Lester.
