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Edwards, Martha Unganpari

Daisy Bates and the Watjala kids / Martha Unganpari Edwards ; illustrated by Kunyi June-Anne McInerney.

Ginninderra Press (2009)

9781740275750

| Paperback

39 pages | English

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Dewey J 362.849915 EDW

Subject

Aboriginal Australians
Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951 - Juvenile literature.
Children's stories, Australian
Children, Aboriginal Australian
Race relations

Plot

Born of an Aboriginal mother of the Antikirinya language group and a white father, Martha Unganpari Edwards was therefore a 'watjala kid'. In her long years with the people at Ooldea siding and later at Wynbring on the East-West railway line, Daisy Bates made it clear that such liaisons, and the children resulting from them, were offensive to her.