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Author Stokie, Bain Att

Title A Life Together, a Life Apart
Published Melbourne : Melbourne University Publishing, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (182 pages)
Contents Intro; A Life Together, A Life Apart; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I; Other Histories; I; II; Part II; Beginnings; 'My parents were Victorians'; 'God and Empire'; 'A good education'; 'I like the other Mr Burrage better'; 'The war was on'; 'To go to a different race'; Sevington; I; 'We are going to Sevington'; 'Home at Sevington'; 'They are not at all repulsive'; 'On the top of the hill'; 'Those that I'd call white'; 'The dance'; 'Our handy-man'; 'Red, white and blue'; 'Our house'; 'Before 7 if you please'; 'I threaded for George Cutmore'
'We have a very good class of aborigine''"The Bush Burial"'; 'He was never off duty'; 'The last knob of blue'; 'We are responsible for them'; 'Just the same as we make'; 'They were real people'; 'You would be so interested'; 'A steady salary'; 'A kind of Santa Clans'; 'I sent her home'; 'Our patient'; II; 'The coffin-board boat'; 'The time of my sister's birth'; 'A time of severe drought'; 'You'll go blind'; 'The removal of children was a practice'; 'I loved being with all the Aboriginal children'; 'The hunting instinct'; 'A sense of distance'; 'Making trips home'; Cummeragunja; I
'We called it Cummera''A very difficult assignment'; 'She felt she couldn't play the hymns'; 'The Station'; II; 'The river was a great joy'; 'A real life blood'; 'The dark people saved him'; III; 'They used every facility to make their things'; 'We never took the prizes'; 'A generation different'; IV; 'There had to be a line always'; 'We must report everything'; 'What people could say'; V; 'In a line'; 'A good grounding'; VI; 'A certain amount of domestic training'; 'They almost always ate separately'; 'I cannot remember any forcible removals'; 'Am I getting any whiter?'; VII
'We were always barracking for Cummera''We are de preemier team'; 'A Cummera supporter'; 'They knew the hymns by heart'; VIII; 'A very fine man'; 'We were told she was the niece of Truganini'; 'She was very white-looking'; IX; 'Such a celebration'; 'Scrambling far lollies'; X; 'And anyway, Herbie had saved Dad's life'; XI; 'The Board could solve the problem of its bits and pieces'; 'Leaving'; Moonahcullah; I; 'It was a lovely spot'; 'A bit isolated'; 'Between the store and the people'; II; 'Living by faith'; 'He felt his obligations'; 'Their path in the future'; 'A perfect nuisance'
'Just ridin' on the pig's back''Is Mrs Burrage comin' round today?'; 'They 're not market gardeners'; 'We got no ways'; 'We come to get drops'; 'When the endowment first came in'; 'Talking them round'; III; 'In making a canoe'; IV; 'The time of the flood'; 'At the time of the Coronation'; V; 'An investigation'; Prometheus Unbound; VI; 'The time to go'; 'Farewell to Faithful Friends'; The Later Years; Part III; Oral narratives, autobiography and history; I; II; III; IV; Postscript; Notes
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Subject Burrage, Charles, 1879-1959
Burrage, Elsie, 1892-1969
Burrage, Winifred, 1914-1993 -- Childhood
Burrage, Alan, 1916- -- Childhood
Stokie, Elsie, 1918- -- Childhood
Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Australia -- New South Wales
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Government relations
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
Children
New South Wales
Form Electronic book
Author Attwood, Bain
Burrage, Alan
Burrage, Winifred
Stokie, Elsie
ISBN 0522864961
9780522864960