Don Collard Don Collard i(A108507 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal Noongar / Nyoongar / Nyoongah / Nyungar / Nyungah / Noonygar ; Aboriginal Adnyamathanha ; Aboriginal
(Storyteller) assertion
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1 Parents the Hurt Continues : Don Collard Don Collard , 2002 single work oral history
— Appears in: Echoes of the Past : Sister Kate's Home Revisited 2002; (p. 22-24) Don and his wife Sylvia had fourteen children, nine of whom were taken away. Don describes the heartache of when his children were taken from them. The first child taken was Ellen after she was placed in a hospital by her parents when sick. Upon her recovery Ellen was fostered to white parents without her parents permission. The remaining eight were later taken by Church authorities and placed in Sister Kate's Home for children in Queens Park, Perth.
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