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Aboriginal voices: activities and resources for English, DETE, 2000

Contains an extensive list of life stories of Aboriginal people and lots of other annotated resource lists too in other chapters (e.g. poetry, plays, films, fiction, media). Sent to all DETE schools a few years ago, also available from Curriculum Corporation (www.curriculum.edu.au)

Chryssides, Helen, 1993, Local heroes, Collins Dove, Blackburn Vic., 1993.

Interviews with Ian Abdulla (artist), Stephen Page (dancer), Catherine Freeman (sprinter), Roger Bennet (playwright), Lorraine Liddle (lawyer), Lana Abbott (community worker), Rosalie Kunoth-Monks (actress, nun, grandmother, community leader, Yami Lester (station manager, community leader), Mandawuy Yunupingu (musician, school principal, Galarrwuy Yunupingu (community leader).

Coolwell, Wayne, 1993, My kind of people: achievement, identity and Aboriginality, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld., 1993.

Interviews with Gordon Bennett (painter), Mark Ella (rugby player), Rhoda Roberts (TV presenter-journalist), Shirley Nirrpurranydji (school principal), Ernie Dingo (actor), Linda Bonson (dancer), Maroochy Barambah (opera singer), Sandra Eades (doctor), Noel Pearson (land rights advocate), and Archie Roach (singer-songwriter)

Crawford, Evelyn, 1993, Over my tracks: a remarkable life, Penguin, Ringwood, Vic., 1993.

Growing up in western New South Wales in the bush, on missions, working as a drover and having her own family.

Davis, Jack, A Boy’s Life, Magabala Books, 20001991

The humorous account of the trials and tribulations of his early years growing up in Western Australia

Dodd, Billy, Broken Dreams, University of Queensland Press, 1992.

When he was 18 years old Billy dived into a river, broke his neck and became a quadriplegic. The book tells his story of growing up in the bush, working as a stockman and then building a new life for himself after his accident.

Huggins, Rita and Jackie, Auntie Rita, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994 2001.

Rita was stolen from her country as a child in the 1920’s and taken to a mission. Later she lived as a single mother in Brisbane in the 1960’s. This is a story about what it means to be Aboriginal, and a woman, in Australia

Langford, Ruby, Real Deadly, ETT Imprint, 1994.

A collection of autobiographical stories and poems of contemporary urban Koori life.

Langford, Ruby, Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town, Penguin, 1988.

The story of her early life on a NSW mission, working in Sydney at 15, first child at 17, then living for years in tin huts and bush camps, raising her 9 children and working at fencing, burning off, ring-barking and chopping down trees.

Lennon, Jessie, And I Always Been Moving! The early life of Jessie Lennon,, JL/MM, Coober Pedy, SA JB Books, 1999.

As a child in the 1920’s and 30’s, Jessie talks of travelling across vast areas of outback South Australia She describes the experiences of her parents working on stations and her own early years of married life.

McDonald, Connie, Ningulla When You Grow Up, Magabala Books, 1996.

Connie’s experiences of growing up on a mission in Western Australia and working to establish a career as a teacher. She talks of confronting racism and suffering, and searching for family and identity.

Mellor, D and Haebich, A., Many Voices - Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation, National Library of Australia, 2003.

Indigenous community members, those who fostered or adopted children, policy makers, administrators, and others have shared their individual experiences about the removal of children from their families. This publication, including a CD of excerpts from oral histories, assist readers to understand the complex layers of this aspect of Australia’s story. An excellent resource, suitable for a number of senior secondary subjects . Further details from <http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/bringhomenew.html>

Nannup, Alice, When the Pelican Laughed, Fremantle Arts Centre Press Narkaling Inc., 1999.

Alice courageously tells, with great humour and insight, exactly what it was like growing up as a black woman in Australia Born in 1911, she was taken from her family at the age of 12 and forced to work as a domestic servant. She returned home to her country 64 years later.

Pilkington, Doris, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, University of Queensland Press, 1996.

Based on the experiences of 3 girls who in 1931 fled from the repressive life of Moore River Mission and followed the rabbit-proof fence for hundreds of miles back to their homelands.

Pring, Adele, Women of the Centre, Pascoe Publishing, (PO Box 42, Apollo Bay Vic 3233), 1990.

Oral histories of 10 South Australian Aboriginal women, who tell stories of walking through atomic bomb test sites, being taken from their mothers, traditional life and punishments, playing cricket for Australia, fighting for the right to work as nurses and the impact of European invasion.

Sykes, Roberta, Murawina: Australian Women of High Achievement, Smith and Taylor, 1996.

A collection of very powerful life stories of 34 Aboriginal women from a range of backgrounds and experiences. Gives great insight into how life has been, and is now, for Aboriginal women.

Tregenza, El., Boundary Lines: Charlie McAdam and family as told to Elizabeth Tregenza, McPhee Gribble Publishers, Ringwood, Vic., NAL Books, 1995.

Tells of his experiences of being forcibly taken from his mother as a child and how she overcame the exploitation and abuse that followed. This book recounts the lives of the McAdams’, including an uncle murdered in a 1930’s massacre, and his sons, the AFL footballers, Greg, Gilbert and Adrian.

Ward, Glenyse, Unna You Fullas, Narkaling Inc., 1999 (KIT) or Magabala Books, 1994 as paperback.

The story of Glenyse’s days on the mission, the fun and pranks, as well as the longing for family and home. It is also about Aboriginal children looking out for each other as they struggle to conform to the ‘good Christian way’.

Ward, Glenyse, Wandering Girl, Magabala 1987 Narkaling Inc., 1999.

At an early age, Glenyse was taken from her mother and placed in an orphanage, to later become a worker at a mission. Wandering Girl tells of her experiences at 16, when she was sent from the mission to work as a domestic servant girl for a white family.