Urchin Convicts | Alistair Scott
Fullers Bookshop, 131 Collins Street, Hobart, TAS 7000 In the early nineteenth century, amidst public…
In conversation
‘Good People Always Crackney in Heaven’
Fullers Bookshop
‘We die we go to heaven, good people always crackney in heaven.’ – Druemerterpunner/ Alexander (Big River people) Wybalenna, Flinders Island, 21 April, 1938
‘Crackney’ means to ‘sit down’. Druemerterpunner lived through the first generation of colonial disruption in lutruwita/ Tasmania.
He expresses the interplay of his language with the colonists’ English and the different mythologies continue to shape how we speak of the past and imagine our future.
Grant will be joined in conversation by Greg Lehman at Fullers.
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