Authors:

  • Kim Scott
Cover of That Deadman Dance

Explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers. A young Noongar man named Bobby Wabalanginy who is clever, resourceful and eager to please, befriends the new arrivals. But slowly things begin to change. Not everyone is happy with how the colony is developing.

Citations

Scott, Kim. That Deadman Dance. Sydney, New South Wales: Pan Macmillan, 2010.