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Return to Uluru: Pitjantjatjara man Yukun finally laid to rest
Return to Uluru brings a cold case to life.
One event in 1934 – the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal Man Yokununna by white policeman Bill Mckinnon, and subsequent Commonwealth inquiry – stood out as a mirror of racial politics in the Northern Territory at the time. Now, ninety years after Pitjantjatjara man Yukun was killed by police and his remains sent to museums in Adelaide, he is finally laid to rest.
Read more about this investigation via The Guardian.
Return to Uluru: A killing. A hidden history. A story that goes to the heart of the nation by Mark Mckenna
‘A timely elevation of a foundational Australian–Aṉangu story in the age of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The Uluru Statement seeks to enshrine, as this book does, the ancient polities of this land within the framework of Australian democracy. Return to Uluru will form an important part of Australia’s truth-telling canon.’ —Megan Davis