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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Marita AhChee
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'My name is Marita Ahchee. I was born at Aileron up from Alice Springs. My mother was an Anmetjere woman and my father was an Irish man. As I got a little bit older we moved into town, into the Bungalow, which is now called the Telegraph Station.'

'There were nuns, they were after me all the time. Mum would take me in the hills and hide me there. So we done that a few times I can remember. They caught us one day, Mum didn’t expect them to pull up...' (Transcribed from the Stolen Generations' Testimonies website)

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    y separately published work icon Stolen Generations' Testimonies Board of the Stolen Generations’ Testimonies Foundation , 2007 8960307 2007 website

    'The ‘Stolen Generations’ Testimonies’ project is an initiative to record on film the personal testimonies of Australia’s Stolen Generations Survivors and share them online.'

    'The Stolen Generations' Testimonies Foundation hopes the online museum will become a national treasure and a unique and sacred keeping place for Stolen Generations’ Survivors’ Testimonies. By allowing Australians to listen to the Survivors’ stories with open hearts and without judgement, the foundation hopes more people will be engaged in the healing process. ' (Source: Stolen Generations Testimonies website)

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  • Garden Point Mission, Melville Island, Tiwi Islands, Top End, Northern Territory,
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