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Gathering sticks : lighting up small fires / by Margaret Heffernan with Gerard Waterford and Frances Coughlan.

Gathering sticks : lighting up small fires / by Margaret Heffernan with Gerard Waterford and Frances Coughlan.
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ISBN 9781864651478 (paperback) :
1864651474 (paperback)
Author Heffernan, Margaret (author.)
Title Gathering sticks : lighting up small fires / by Margaret Heffernan with Gerard Waterford and Frances Coughlan.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Alice Springs, NT : IAD Press, 2018.
©2018.
Description vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Contents The storylines of my birth -- Stories of first contact for the Arrernte tribes -- Campfire stories of my Anmatyerr grandparents -- Moving to town, the big drought and the Coniston Massacre -- My parents' story -- My early years at Middle Camp -- Living at Jervois, Aileron and Arltunga -- Living with family at Yambah Station -- Starting school at the Bunga lows -- Livign back in town at Middle Camp -- Growing up in the mission -- Best girls in the dormitory -- Leaving school -- My mother's death -- Working at Amoonguna -- Walking out with Tommy -- Napperby Station -- Back in Santa Teresa -- Working at Santa Teresa school -- Going to Batchelor College -- The Institute for Aboriginal Development -- Changing schools, changing jobs -- Dreams of our own school -- Living the dream -- Land claims and Ngkarte Mikwekenhe -- My diabetes and stroke -- The long road to recovery -- Grandmothers' rules surviving in hard times -- Aboriginal spirituality and the Catholic Church -- Reflections -- Postcript.
Summary Margaret Heffernan's desire, in telling this story, has been to pass on to her children and future generations of her family, the story of her life, a life in transition from traditional culture to a very different world that is still unfolding.
Subjects Heffernan, Margaret
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Biography
Stolen generations (Australia) -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Stolen generations (Australia)
Women, Aboriginal Australian
Alice Springs Telegraph Station (N.T.)
Northern Territory -- Alice Springs
Alice Springs (N.T.)
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Waterford, Gerard, 1957- (author.)
Call number 2019.026
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