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Edna Tantjingu Williams Edna Tantjingu Williams i(A51723 works by) (a.k.a. Edna Tantjingu Paxton)
Born: Established: 1 Jan 1932 Tarcoola, Far North South Australia, South Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 1999
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal Yankunytjatjara ; Aboriginal
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1 7 y separately published work icon Down the Hole, Up the Tree, Across the Sandhills : Running From the State and Daisy Bates Running from the State and Daisy Bates Edna Tantjingu Williams , Eileen Wani Wingfield , Kunyi June-Anne McInerney (illustrator), Alice Springs : IAD Press , 2000 Z797671 2000 single work picture book autobiography children's 'In the stark desert mining town of Coober Pedy when the government people came to take the fair-skinned Aboriginal children away they didn't always find them. They were down the hole up the tree across the sandhills . . . running from the State and Daisy Bates. This beautifully illustrated children's picture book is a true story. Includes informative historical and cultural supplementary material.' Source: Publisher's blurb
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