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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Johnny Ross
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'...I was just too young, too small. Just what I’ve been told, but I’m not too sure of the years. I was taken to Moola Bulla and I think my dad had a lot to do with that. They said he had a lot to do with it because they said he wanted to get me some education and things like that. My mother’s side of the family they use to tell me, they use to paint us up. They always knew when the welfare was coming around to pick you up. They’d paint you up with some red dirt. Or charcoal, and these welfares couldn’t tell the difference, me galloping around with all the other kids until they woke up to it and they used Aboriginal trackers when they were looking for kids, and they could pick you out from a big bunch of us, they could pick out which is which, what they were looking for and that’s how they got me...' (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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Subjects:
  • Moola Bulla Aboriginal Pastoral Settlement, Western Australia,
  • Beagle Bay Mission, Beagle Bay, Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
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