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Author Harrison, Eileen

Title Black Swan : a Koorie woman's life
Published Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents Title page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue The White Dress; Part I Innocence; 1. Routines; 2. Freedom; 3. Black Swan; Picture section; 4. Bung Yarnda; Part II Change Coming; 5. Whitefella Lessons; 6. Miss Binny; 7. Politics; 8. Leaving Lake Tyers; 9. Ararat; Part III Experience; 10. Layers of Events; 11. Work; 12. Nothin' But a Black Gin; 13. Escape; 14. Runaway; Part IV Gathering the Pieces; 15. That Piece of Paper; 16. They've Taken My Babies!; 17. Cedric and Maria; 18. What's the Use?; Part V Awakening; Picture section; 19. Out of the Shadows; 20. Jenny
21. Koorie Culture DayEpilogue Forty Thousand-Year-Old Soul; Notes
Summary A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years on the Lake Tyers mission to discovery of her talent as a painter
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Form Electronic book
Author Landon, Carolyn
ISBN 9781742694504
1742694500