Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon
One Arm Point Remote Community School
This engrossing, activity picture book brings Indigenous knowledge to young readers in an accessible way.
Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon is an activity picture book that brings Indigenous knowledge to young readers in an accessible way.
The children of One Arm Point Community School in Western Australia share the stories and cultural knowledge of their people, the Bardi Jaawi people, with engaging dreaming stories and educational activities that include bush tucker knowledge, how to find water and reading the seasons.
Ardiyooloon (also known as One Arm Point) is a remote community in WA that sits close to the tip of the Dampier Peninsula, North of Broome. The Bardi Jaawi people have lived in the area for thousands of years and this book gives as an insight into their culture that is easily accessible to young readers.
The photos and illustrations give a spectacular sense of place and the activities are simple and engrossing. The highlights for me are the dreaming stories. Quite often the narrative simplicity hides the sophisticated knowledge at the core of these stories. In Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon we gain an understanding of important knowledge, such as why the Bardi Jaawi people have to cook certain foods rather than eat them raw.
Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon would be the perfect activity book to bring into a primary school classroom in any of our urban areas. It will engross the kids, give them an understanding of a lifestyle very different to their own and also encourage them to participate in practices that are different to how they live.
31 Mar 2011 4:17:54pm
Resources such as the Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon are wonderful resources that provide us with a glimpse of the peoples of this area. They help us understand relationships and how they can help us to be friends. I recommend this resource as I would any other resource from my neighbouring peoples who allows to enter their world. WONDERFUL