One Arm Point Remote Community School (W.A.) - Author
This is an informative community-centred book in which Bardi Jaawi children share activities, knowledge, stories, language and relationships connected with life at Ardiyooloon. It can broaden a child’s understanding of how daily life, environment and culture may be closely connected.
More about this book
Takes readers inside the lives of the children of a remote Indigenous community located on the northern tip of the Dampier Peninsula in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia - lives very different to those experienced by most Australians. The children take readers camping and fishing, share traditional stories and dances, show them how to find a waterhole, track, cook and eat bush tucker and animals such as turtles, crabs, oysters and clams, and make spears, boomerangs, bough shelters and bush brooms.
Children share traditional stories and dances, cultural activities, community programmes, family ties and Bardi language connected with Ardiyooloon.Exploratory / explanatoryExploratory / explanatory: the book explains or explores the subject without an established evaluative position.Exploratory / explanatory: the book explains or explores the subject without an established evaluative position.
How the book presents it: The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
Talk about: How does the book distinguish specific Bardi Jaawi knowledge from ideas that might be wrongly treated as universal?
Land, sea and food practices
The children show readers how to find water, track, fish, gather or catch food, cook and eat animals, and explore reefs and seasons.Exploratory / explanatoryExploratory / explanatory: the book explains or explores the subject without an established evaluative position.Exploratory / explanatory: the book explains or explores the subject without an established evaluative position.
How the book presents it: These activities are presented as practical knowledge connected with place and daily life, rather than as unsupported adventure claims.
Talk about: What relationships with land, sea, animals and seasons does the book explain through these activities?
Making and practical skills
The book includes making spears, boomerangs, bough shelters and bush brooms, alongside camping and other practical activities.Exploratory / explanatoryExploratory / explanatory: the book explains or explores the subject without an established evaluative position.Exploratory / explanatory: the book explains or explores the subject without an established evaluative position.
How the book presents it: The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
Talk about: What does making each object reveal about materials, place, purpose or community knowledge?
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Why It May Be Worth Reading
It offers knowledge from a specific Indigenous community rather than presenting an abstract lesson about culture. The English–Bardi wordlist and community-school authorship may invite careful attention to whose knowledge is being shared.
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What Deserves Attention
Some activities involve tracking, hunting, fishing, preparing and eating animals, including turtles, crabs, oysters, clams and kangaroo. Making spears and other tools also appears; discuss these practices in their cultural and practical context.
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A Conversation Worth Having
Which parts of life are explained through the land, sea, seasons, family or language, and how does the book show the community describing its own knowledge and traditions?
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Reading Approach
Read it as a window into one community, pausing over unfamiliar words, places and practices. Let the child ask questions, distinguish this community’s experiences from generalisations, and revisit the wordlist together.
Confidence & Basis
Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.
What remains unconfirmed
Community knowledge and cultural life: Some details of this treatment remain unclear.
Land, sea and food practices: Some details of this treatment remain unclear.
Making and practical skills: The book’s level of construction detail and its handling of safety or contemporary significance are unclear.
Book information
Limited information
Relevant to: Community knowledge and cultural life; Land, sea and food practices; Making and practical skills
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