Growing up Wiradjuri: Stories from the Wiradjuri Nation

AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal Indigenous

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Growing up Wiradjuri is a collection of personal stories by Wiradjuri Elders. The writers are Uncles and Aunties who came of age in New South Wales in the 1950s and 1960s. In a strong collective voice, they share the difficulties of growing up under the rule of the welfare board. Some describe their experiences of evading capture by the welfare mob, or of being stolen and forced into state care away from their families. Some describe experiencing racism in school, the trials of poverty and family separation.

• 68 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm #190424
• Foreword / Dr Anita Heiss
• Where do you start being Wiradjuri? / Aunty Lorraine Tye
• Gadhaang Yiradhu-galang (Happy Days) / Aunty Elaine Lomas
• Growing up Wiradjuri / Aunty Cheryl Penrith
• Growing up Wiradjuri mens learning to listen / Uncle Stan Grant Snr
• Jimmy James / Uncle James Ingram
• Out and about on Country / Aunty Mary Atkinson
• Sweet memories / Aunty Isabel Reid
• 26 September 1957, Griffith / Uncle Norman Little – Author biographies.