A Tear in the Soul
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A Tear in the Soul

  1. 337 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Tear in the Soul

About this book

A foreigner's criticism provides the impetus for Amanda Webster to embark on a long-intended search for two former school friends – Aboriginal kids from the Kurrawang Mission near where she grew up in Kalgoorlie. As a child, Webster supposed Mission kids were well-cared for orphans, however growing awareness forced her to think otherwise. Over the years her questions accumulated: were her friends members of the Stolen Generations? What was life at Kurrawang really like? What are her responsibilities as a non-Indigenous Australian whose family's privilege was built on stolen land? For an institution that existed for over two decades, Webster finds that Kurrawang was strangely undocumented. Nor can she find any trace of her former friends, including a young Aboriginal girl who went on a beach holiday with Amanda's family. Then in 2012, Webster meets Gregory Ugle, an older brother of her former friend Tony. After a four-decade absence, Webster returns to her hometown with Ugle to reconnect with her former friends, and to piece together Kurrawang's story through oral histories and local newspaper archives. Over several trips, a sometimes uneasy tension emerges with Ugle as both he and Webster inch towards a fragile reconciliation.

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Information

Publisher
NewSouth
Year
2017
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781742247984
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. The Question
  6. Molokai
  7. The Skin Divide
  8. Ghost Town
  9. Layers of Skin
  10. Forced Exile
  11. White Stranger
  12. On Noongar Land
  13. On Wongi Land
  14. Heart Bypass
  15. Whither Should They Flee?
  16. Aboriginal Names and Aliases
  17. A Homecoming
  18. Kurrawang Mission
  19. The Waddy
  20. Finding Bronwyn
  21. The Cyanide Code
  22. The Aboriginal Protector
  23. The Hypothetical Grandchild
  24. Sister Girl
  25. Living By Faith
  26. Small Discriminations
  27. Not Just the Money
  28. For the Record
  29. Within Talking Distance of Town
  30. Making a Little Child's Life Complete
  31. Balay Wadjela
  32. Happy Home
  33. Some of Them Were Promiscuous
  34. The First Fleet
  35. Aboriginal Land
  36. One of the Last
  37. To Be a Friend
  38. Chain Reaction
  39. Bringing Them Home - to Where?
  40. Lucky
  41. Epilogue
  42. Reading List
  43. Acknowledgements

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