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No options, no choice! : the Moore River experience : my father, Thomas Corbett, an Aboriginal half-caste / Rosemary van den Berg.

Record no:

85608

Call no:

T/572.99412 VAN

Author:

Van den Berg, Rosemary

Publisher:

Broome, W.A.: Magabala Books

Year:

1994

Description:

229 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Corbett, Thomas, 1910-1992;
Moore River Native Settlement (W.A.) - History;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Government relations;
Child welfare - Western Australia - Moore River Region - History;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Social conditions;

Stolen generations (Australia);

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Isbn:

1875641122

Notes:

Originally belonged to Ray Oldham. Contains her handwritten annotations throughout text.
Map on front endpaper.

Type:

Book

Abstract:

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.

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