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1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Authors' Note; Maps; Chapter 1: Birth and Family: Country and Station; Chapter 2: Childhood on Rocklea Station; Chapter 3: Staying with the Whitefellas; Chapter 4: Learning the Traditional Ways; Chapter 5: Growing Up; Chapter 6: Marriage and Family; Chapter 7: Working Life in the Bush; Chapter 8: Bringing Up the Family in the Bush; Chapter 9: Schooling for the Family; Chapter 10: Moving Towards Town; Chapter 11: Living in Roebourne; Appendices; Alice Bilari Smith's Family Tree; Jack Smith's Family Tree |
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Alice Smith's Native Welfare Department FileGlossary; Photographs; Notes and Corrections |
| Summary |
Bringing up nine children of your own is a major achievement in itself. Bringing up a further fifteen foster children is truly remarkable Alice Bilari Smith had lived in the Pilbara all her life, on stations and in the bush, on government reserves and in towns. As a girl on Rocklea Station she narrowly avoided removal from her family by the Welfare'. Instead, Alice learned to cook and launder, sew and clean; shoe horses, chop wood and milk cows. Her working life on stations continued as a young married woman and she added mustering, dingo scalping, shearers' assistant and sheep-yard buil |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 7, 2021) |
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Smith, Alice Bilari, 1928-
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Women, Banyjima -- Biography
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Pilbara (W.A.) -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
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REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers.
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Aboriginal Australians
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Women, Banyjima
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Pilbara (W.A.) -- Biography
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Western Australia -- Pilbara
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| Genre/Form |
Biography
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Brehaut, Loreen A., author.
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Vitenbergs, Anna, author.
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| ISBN |
9781925162127 |
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1925162125 |
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9781925162110 |
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1925162117 |
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