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Extracts from An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New with prefatory remarks by Chris Watson and Paul Memmott.
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An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New
Paul Memmott
(editor),
Robyn Horsman
(editor),
Fitzroy
:
McPhee Gribble
,
1984
Z460591
1984
single work
autobiography
'Elsie Roughsey was born into the Lardil tribe on Mornington Island in 1923 soon after the first missionaries arrived. Raided in a dormitory mission and in the traditional life of her tribe, she writes about power, religion, love and marriage, childbirth, medicine, education, crime and punishment across both worlds.'
'This is a book of great charm - and a rare and significant portrait of an Aboriginal life during a period of acute and often traumatic change.' (Source: Back cover)
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Subjects:
- Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria area, Far North Queensland, Queensland,
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