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Author Weiss, Gillian

Title Trying to Get It Back : Indigenous Women, Education and Culture
Published Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages)
Contents List of Illustrations; Preface; Foreword; Pearl McKenzie; Pauline Coulthard; Charlene Tree; Bernie Sound; Valerie Bourne; Brandi McLeod; Talking Together; Afterword; Appendix 1; Bibliography; Index
Summary Trying to Get It Back: Indigenous Women, Education and Culture examines aspects of the lives of six women from three generations of two indigenous families. Their combined memories, experiences and aspirations cover the entire twentieth century. The first family, Pearl McKenzie, Pauline Coulthard and Charlene Tree are a mother, daughter and granddaughter of the Adnyamathanha people of the Flinders Range in South Australia. The second family consists of Bernie Sound, her neice Valerie Bourne and Valerie's daughter, Brandi McLeod -- Sechelt women from British Columbia, Canada. They talk to G
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Subject Adnyamathanha (Australian people)
Sechelt women -- Biography
Sechelt women -- Social conditions
Women, Adnyamathanha -- Biography
Women, Adnyamathanha -- Social conditions
History.
Social sciences.
history (discipline)
social sciences.
Adnyamathanha (Australian people)
History.
Sechelt women.
Social sciences.
Women, Adnyamathanha.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781554582976
1554582970
9780889205611
0889205612