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      An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New

      by Elsie R. Labumore
      Published
      Jul 1985
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      245
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      Elsie Roughsey was born into the Lardil tribe on Mornington Island, Australia in 1923 soon after the first missionaries arrived. Raised in a dormitory mission and in the traditional life of her tribe, she writes about power, religion, love and marriage, childbirth, medicine, education, crime and punishment across both worlds. This is a book of great charm - and a rare and significant portrait of an Aboriginal life during a period of acute often traumatic change.

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      First Edition Jul 1985 Penguin ISBN13 9780140072440 ISBN10 0140072446
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