family
why is wadjularbinna part white
her mother was raped by settelers
what does the name wadjularbinna mean?
Child of warmth and sunshine
who was she married to?
a station manager
who took the children from their parents?
the missionary`s
why was her mother upset that she wanted to leave her husband
because in aborriginal culture a partner is for life, especially when there are chrildren involved, so she break aborigional law
what religion are they?
Christian
where was wadjularbinna born
in a tribal camp in the gulf of carpentaria
how long where they married
18 years
where did the white people put the black and half black people?
in dormitoris
what is her opinion on that the goverment arent going to give compensation to the stolen children
she thinks its discriminating and that til children feel worthless in their own country
what kind of storys did the grandmother wadjularbinna
that adults were shot and tghe children were kidnapped from their hiding spots when she was young.
what happend because her and her sister could not speak english
their mouth was washed with soap, and they sat them in a corner
what policy did the goverment change?
that Aboriginal people became citizens in their own country again
how did the missionarys treat them
they tied them to trees and flogged them, simply for running away to find their parents
why did she share her story?
she wants us to understand where the indigenios people come from and how much pain they went through
what happend after her came to the station to get her
she took them fishing and hunting and swimming