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'Aboriginal Elders' Voices: Stories of the Tide of History is a collection of Victorian Indigenous Elders' life stories and oral histories. The Elders share their stories in an attempt to ensure that both sides of Australia's history are finally heard. These stories tell of cultural resistance on missions, of defying assimilation laws, of forever moving around to save children from the welfare. They document the development of both fringe and urban communities and work in the Aboriginal rights movement. They clarify the ways in which these experiences have affected the individual authors along with the indigenous population in general' Sourced: Publishers note (Sighted 10/06/2009).
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Aboriginal Community Elders Service
, 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Growing Up Running From The Welfare, single work life story (p. 17-35)
- Respecting Our Elders, single work life story (p. 37-50)
- If Your Mother Didn't Tell You, Then Your Grandmother Did!, single work life story (p. 51-65)
- Don't Dwell On Trouble, single work life story (p. 67-75)
- These Are My People, single work life story (p. 77-85)
- We Were All Cousins, More Or Less, single work life story (p. 87-91)
- Then Cousins Were Taken Awayi"The time of childhood", single work poetry (p. 91-92)
- Aboriginality Is About Culture, Not Colour, single work life story (p. 93-105)
- Take up the Opportunities We Struggled To Make, single work life story (p. 107-114)
- For Our Elders Caring Placei"Up there in Canberra,", single work poetry (p. 113-114)
- Homei"I'm going home!", single work life story prose (p. 115-123)
- We Were Supposed To Forget Our Aboriginality, single work life story (p. 125-136)
- Not Enough Heart To Say Sorry, single work life story (p. 137-153)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Common subjects:
- Stolen Generations (Australia)
- Aboriginal religion & stories
- Memories of childhood
- Cultural imperialism
- Aboriginal elders
- Growing up
- Reconciliation
- Aboriginal-White relations
- Ancestors
- Aboriginal assimilation (Government policy)
- Grandmothers
- Racism
- Aboriginal culture
- Aboriginal education
- Australian history
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