Growing up Wiradjuri : stories from the Wiradjuri Nation / edited by Dr Anita Heiss ; illustrated by Charmaine Ledden-Lewis.
Language: D10 Publication details: Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2022.Description: 68 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781922613745 :
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Wiradjuri language (D10) (NSW SI55-07)
- Older Aboriginal Australians
- Stolen generations (Australia)
- Wiradjuri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs
- Wiradjuri (Australian people) -- Biography
- Wiradjuri (Australian people) -- History
- Australian
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content
- Biography & Memoir (Australia)
- All Australian Indigenous Material (Australia)
- Social issues & welfare (Australia)
- 305.89915 23/eng/20220920
- DU125.W5 G76 2022
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 305.899 GRO | Available | 071867 |
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.
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.
Some text in Wiradjuri.
