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'Northwestern NSW was forcibly taken by white settlers in the mid nineteenth century. Surviving land owners were moved on, placed on missions and reserves, but kept returning to the riverbank. In this book, descendants protray past upheavals and their hopes for the future.' (Source: TROVE)
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Dedication:
Dedication: "I wish to dedicate this book to the local Aboriginal families who shared their lives with me and so helped me to understand the children I taught at St Joseph's school in Walgett for the last twenty-six years. My Aboriginal friends made me feel welcome and taught me much of what I know about my new country. The also listened to stories about my first home in Slovenia.
- Cilka Zagar"
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This work includes:
1 The Coming of the White Man
2 Hard Work on the Stations
3 The Stolen Generations
4 Moving all the Time: Missions and Reserves
5 Around the Second World War
6 The Forties, Fifties and Sixties
7 Jail and Detention
8 Family
9 Protest Movements
10 After the Referendum: The Problems of Today
11 A Contemporary Autobiography: Muriel Dennis
12 The Nineties: Health and Reconciliation
Contents
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A Contemporary Autobiography in Letters : Muriel Dennis,
single work
life story
Muriel Dennis talks about her life after the passing of her Grandmother, Muriel Dennis-Hunter.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Indigenous Stories Told Collectively
BlackWords : Indigenous Stories Told Collectively
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The BlackWords Essays 2015; (p. 5) The BlackWords Essays 2019;In this essay Heiss discusses and explains the important role of anthologies in the creation of communities of writers and in acknowledging, consolidating and launching writing careers.
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Collaboration and Resistance in Indigenous Life Writing
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian-Canadian Studies , vol. 20 no. 1 2002; (p. 27-45) Compares life narratives of Australian and Canadian Indigenous groups.
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Collaboration and Resistance in Indigenous Life Writing
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian-Canadian Studies , vol. 20 no. 1 2002; (p. 27-45) Compares life narratives of Australian and Canadian Indigenous groups. -
Indigenous Stories Told Collectively
BlackWords : Indigenous Stories Told Collectively
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The BlackWords Essays 2015; (p. 5) The BlackWords Essays 2019;In this essay Heiss discusses and explains the important role of anthologies in the creation of communities of writers and in acknowledging, consolidating and launching writing careers.
- Michael Anderson
- Kevin Anderson
- Joan Ashby
- June E. Barker
- Roy Barker
- Andrew Carroll
- Daisy Carroll
- Joe Carroll
- Rose Davis
- Dianna Dennis
- Dudley Dennis
- Glen Dennis
- Joyce Dennis
- Laurence Dennis
- Joanna Dennis
- Maria Dennis
- Lola Dennis
- Isaac John Dennis
- Muriel Dennis
- Muriel Dennis
- Kathleen Dodd
- Pauline Dennis
- George Fernando
- Ted Fields
- Allan Friend
- Ivy Green
- Ivy Green
- Harry Hall
- Gary Murphy
- Lucy Murphy
- Michele Nagy
- Elsie Parker
- Margaret Parker
- Herbert Brown
- Thelma Thorn
- Elizabeth Wallace
- Albert Walford
- Fay Green
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal culture
- Aboriginal-White relations
- Aboriginal massacres, murders, poisonings
- Aboriginal relationship with the land
- Aboriginal dispossession
- Aboriginal life stories
- Stolen Generations (Australia)
- Aboriginal activists
- Aboriginal kinship
- Discrimination
- Police corruption
- Aboriginal reserves & missions
- Namoi River, Far North NSW, New South Wales,
- Barwon River, Geelong area, Geelong - Terang - Lake Bolac area, Victoria,
- Barwon River (New South Wales / Queensland), Walgett - Collarenebri area, Far North NSW, New South Wales,