Introduction to my story -- A sort of acceptance -- Mother and the bureaucracy -- Her way of telling me -- Irrevocably -- Like hell I would -- North Perth and watermelons -- Governed by rules and regulations -- What's yours is mine -- Grateful to be allowed to breathe -- Quite innocently -- I could not grasp the ambiguity that was god -- The changing of the guards -- Nobody deserved that sort of punishment -- Working man -- Citizenship Rights -- Powerless to defend themselves -- A feeling of belonging --They hated being broken in -- Hard times for everyone -- Life, labour and love -- On the road to Meekatharra -- Murchison and marriage -- A family to look out for -- Breakdown -- Mend street -- War years -- Leaving good -- Map, Moore River Settlement -- Some special words -- About the athor
Summary
Autobiography of Thomas Corbett as told to his daughter; born 1910 in the Pilbara, removed from his mother and taken to Moore River Settlement; working life in the south west of Western Australia; labouring and stock work; return to Moore River; marriage and family; final move from Moore River to Pinjarra in 1944
Analysis
Aboriginal Australians Biography Australia Moore River (W.A.)
Aboriginal Australians Mixed descent Australia Moore River (W.A.)
Aboriginal Australians Social conditions Australia Moore River (W.A.)
Corbett, Thomas
Moore River (W.A.) History
Moore River Native Settlement (W.A.) History
Nyunga (Australian people) History
Australian
Notes
Map on front endpaper
Thomas Corbett's narrative, recorded and adapted by his daughter, Rosemary van den Berg