Kick the tin / by Doris E. Kartinyeri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kartinyeri, Doris, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children, Aboriginal Australian--Institutional care--Australia--South Australia.

Children, Aboriginal Australian.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--South Australia--Biography.

Aboriginal Australians.

Colebrook Training Centre (Eden Hills, S. Aust.).

Kartinyeri, Doris, 1945-.

Kartinyeri, Doris.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

North Melbourne : Spinifex Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Doris Kartinyeri was a month old, her mother died. The family gathered to mourn their loss and welcome the new baby home. But Doris never arrived to live with her family ? she was stolen from the hospital and placed in Colebrook Home, where she stayed for the next fourteen years.The legacy of being a member of the Stolen Generations continued for Doris as she was placed in white homes as a virtual slave, struggled through relationships and suffered with anxiety and mental illness.This is a life that has been kicked around. It is the compelling and sometimes witty memoir of a cou

Contents:

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; DEDICATION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; FOREWORD; GLOSSARY; STOLEN; PROTECTION; THE BEGINNING OF GRIEF; SHUNTED ABOUT; NEED TO BELONG; JOURNEYS FROM REALITY; MY GUIDING HANDS; FINDING MY VOICE; NGARRINDJERI MIMINI

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-74219-432-X

1-74219-106-1

1-74219-104-5

OCLC:

476232858