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Wendy Harris

From the Desert to the Lakes: Four South Australian Aboriginal...

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Four inspiring Aboriginal women
South Australian outback stories
Intimate family history accounts
Cultural heritage and resilience
134 pages of biography
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Wendy Harris, Yankunytjatjara Wendy Harris traces her life journey from her early years as a bush child in South Australias northwest, from being separated from her beloved blind Kami Grandmother to her life in the home, to having her own children taken from her as she was forced out to work, to becoming the Pioneer Bus head waitress when she returned to the now thriving town of Coober Pedy. Wendys story gives insight into something of the behind the scenes history of South Australias outback.Totty (Harriet) Rankine, Ngarrindjeri Born and raised on Ngarrindjeri land at Point McLeay/Raukkan on South Australias Lake Alexandrina, Totty Rankine reminisces about an early idyllic way of life, eating bush food and being a comical kid at school about her working years in Woomera and Adelaide and the joys and sorrows of bringing up her own family on Raukkan and in the rural town of Murray Bridge. The reader is struck with her humour and the indomitable spirit Aunty Totty inherited from her mother, Annie Rankine MBE.Audrey Wonga, Antikirinya/Yankunytjatjara Taken away as a baby from her mother on the vast Anna Creek Station of northeastern South Australia, Audrey was able to keep contact with her family and eventually move back to spend the rest of her life in her beloved outback. She describes life at Todmorden Station, Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta, Port Augusta and Indulkana (APY Lands) as she adjusted, learned to treasure her heritage, and became a qualified interpreter and...

SKU: M9781760415310
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Binding: Paperback;134 pages; Publisher: Ginninderra Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 285.11 g; Dimensions: N/A

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