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You are all Dead Spirits

Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People by Darren Rix; Craig Cormick

September 1, 2025 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

So as a school kid in Australia back in the nineties, I remember being taught, like many of my peers, the Captain Cook ‘discovered’ Australia. Except that wasn’t quite true, was it? To add all the qualifiers, Cook and his crew are probably best described as the first set of Europeans to visit the east coast of Australia …after the dutch sort of poked around in the west.  But very little discussion time was given to the people that had lived in Australia for tens […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Australia, captain cook, cbr17bingo, culture, Darren Rix; Craig Cormick, Endeavour, First Nations, truth telling

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:19 · Genres: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Australia, captain cook, cbr17bingo, culture, Darren Rix; Craig Cormick, Endeavour, First Nations, truth telling ·
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Stolen History

Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell

January 22, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Going into Unfamiliar Fishes, my knowledge of Hawaii was sparse, to say the least. I can’t say that we covered any Hawaiian history in school- not even that it is our “newest” state. Information came in fits and starts; a friend of mine teaches Hula through VSA, I was familiar with Captain Cooks adventures (and one serious misadventure) in the archipelago, and I caught an old episode of No Reservations. Embarrassing, I know. I had nothing to write home about. Enter Sarah Vowell and her “almost oral […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History Tagged With: American History, captain cook, Christianity, colonization, conversion, cultural tradition, hawaii, Hawaiian history, hawaiian language, Imperialism, manifest destiny, Missionaries, Native Hawaiian religion, Sarah Vowell, travel

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:8 · Genres: Audiobooks, History · Tags: American History, captain cook, Christianity, colonization, conversion, cultural tradition, hawaii, Hawaiian history, hawaiian language, Imperialism, manifest destiny, Missionaries, Native Hawaiian religion, Sarah Vowell, travel ·
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