We all suffer loss - of a dear friend, a diamond, even a misspent day - and then we move on. But how can the Aboriginal people of Australia ever recover from the loss of their essential religious objects, the secret/sacred tjurunga (cher-UNGA) stones? During a century of British colonial occupation many tjurunga, which had bound together countless generations, were stolen, sold to collectors, or forfeited to missionaries. Readers join naive American Mark Hafford as he jets over the Pacific Ocean en route to Australia. At his feet is one of the Aboriginal "holy of holies," a tjurunga stone...
We all suffer loss - of a dear friend, a diamond, even a misspent day - and then we move on. But how can the Aboriginal people of Australia ever recov...
