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Six Peaks Speak: A journey in southern Dja Dja Wurrung Count
The Story
A compelling storytelling journey in southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country through the eyes of six iconic mountains in central Victoria, Australia. An interdisciplinary and intercultural story across time, cultures, contested histories and unsettled relationships, uniquely traversing First Nations and unsettler, history, geology, ecology, anth
A compelling storytelling journey in southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country through the eyes of six iconic mountains in central Victoria, Australia. An interdisciplinary and intercultural story across time, cultures, contested histories and unsettled relationships, uniquely traversing First Nations and unsettler, history, geology, ecology, anthropology and reserve management.
‘Professor Golding presents a cultural and environmental history of landscape in central Victoria, Australia. His vision is for a reconciled relationship on Country. He extends First Nations people respect that has been missing until recently in Australian historiography, providing an important model of how non-Indigenous Australians should engage with traditional owners in research and writing projects.’
Dr Stephen Carey, Senior Research Fellow, Federation University
‘Barry Golding speaks with care and an enduring need for us all to be at our own peaks, not just the hills in this book, their geology, flora and fauna. … Thank you for choosing these Six Peaks that are special to me also, and for being their friend, for they could not ask for anyone better. Dhelkup Murrupuk, we give you good spirit.’ (in book’s preface)
Rodney Carter, Dja Dja Wurrung Chief Executive Officer
The Mountains
The featured mountains are today called Mt Kooroocheang [near Smeaton], Mt Beckworth [near Clunes], Mt Greenock [near Talbot], Mt Tarrengower [near Maldon], Mt Alexander [near Castlemaine] and Mt Franklin [near Daylesford].
Authors
Authors
· Researched by Professor Barry Golding AM during 2023 as a State Library Victoria (SLV) Creative Regional Fellow. Meticulously referenced with over 1,100 footnotes.
· Fresh, new insights into Deep Time with significant contributions to the text and to the geological history, including maps and images contributed by Clive Willman as supp
· Researched by Professor Barry Golding AM during 2023 as a State Library Victoria (SLV) Creative Regional Fellow. Meticulously referenced with over 1,100 footnotes.
· Fresh, new insights into Deep Time with significant contributions to the text and to the geological history, including maps and images contributed by Clive Willman as supporting author.
· Assistance from Uncle Ricky Nelson, Harley Dunolly-Lee, & Rodney Carter for the Dja Dja Wurrung traditional owners (DJAARA), with research access to the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Register via a Cultural Heritage Permit.
· Incorporating new information from Crown Reserve files, SLV, Public Records Office Victoria, local museum libraries and over 70 local and expert informants.
· Aside from a comprehensive introductory chapter and conclusion, the book includes one chapter about each of the six mountains.
Both authors are local and live in southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country.
· Barry Golding AM is an Honorary Professor of Federation University in Ballarat, and lives in Kingston [near Creswick].
· Clive Willman is a geologist based in Castlemaine.