'‘You can’t change the past, but you can live a different future.’ Bronwyn Bancroft
'‘These stories are powerful: sharing pain, humour, grief, hope and pride. Pride in family, community and survival. Pride in being Aboriginal.’ Sally Morgan
'From life in the desert to growing up on a mission, enduring devastating policies in the 1930s to bravely seizing new opportunities in the 1960s, these are fifteen true stories reflecting a diverse range of Aboriginal Australian experiences.' (Publication summary)
Teaching resources via publisher's website.
Epigraph:
The Native Welfare controlled every aspect of your
life in those days. It was very hard for Aboriginal
people then and I learned very young that I’d have to
be determined if I wanted to get anywhere.
– Elder Joan Winch
