Re: Mutant Message from Down Under--Fiction!

[Ludwick Mary <ludwickm@LISD.NET>]

The consensus of those who know Australia and Aborigines is that this
book is 99% fabrication.  Here are sites sent to me that consider all of
what Mrs. Morgan has written to be false.
http://www.west.com.au/reviews/morgan/
http://dumbartung.org.au/ is very anti the book.
A quote from the site:
"A survey of Aboriginal groups in Central and Western Australia failed
to
uncover any indication whatsoever of Ms Morgan's presence in the area or
of
the existence of the "Real People" tribe. Aboriginal groups believe Ms
Morgan's desert journey to be utterly fabricated and that her book and
teaching lack any credibility whatsoever.
It is deeply offensive to Aboriginal people for a white woman to be
misrepresenting Aboriginal culture for self-promotion and profit."
Other sites referring to this book and author are:
http://www.mq.edu.au/hoa/marloweb/index.html
http://www.skeptics.com.au/features/spoon/bs-about.htm
Gareth Griffiths at the University of Western Australia has also written
an
article "Mixed-up Messages Down Under: the Marlo Morgan 'Hoax'"
Ulitarra,
No.9.1996 about it.  The article is not available online, but his email
is
gruffydd@arts.uwa.edu.au
Another academic Professor Marcia Langton canned the book at an address
at
the Getty Research Institute in 1998.
http://online.ntu.edu.au/cincrm/events/lectures/getty.html



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Mary Croix Ludwick, MLS    B.B. Owen Elementary K-5
Lewisville ISD,  The Colony, Texas (near Dallas)
ludwickm@lisd.net (school)   ludwick@swbell.net (home)

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