The Red Chief. A Sourcebook (en Inglés) - Ion Idriess;Stan Ewing

The Story of Red Kangaroo

This book shows the key sources relating the saga of Cumbo Gunnerah or Red Kangaroo, a great war chief of the Kamilaroi tribe in north-western New South Wales. Drawn from the Ion Idriess Archives, they include previously unpublished versions of the life of Red Kangaroo as handed down over generations to Bungaree, an elder of the Gunnedah tribe, noted by local police Sergeant J.P. Ewing; later transcribed by his son Stan Ewing. It was these documents that prompted Idriess to write The Red Chief showing Aboriginal life and survival before the arrival of Captain Cook.