Lorraine McGee-Sippel interviewed by Diana Ritch in the Bringing them home oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 724228
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- McGee-Sippel, Lorraine, 1943-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use of edited transcript and audio.
- Description:
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- 2000 Aug. 30
- 4 digital audio tapes (ca. 190 min.)
- Series:
- Bringing them home oral history project.
- Summary:
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Lorraine McGee-Sippel, born 1943, Crown St. Hospital, Sydney. McGee-Sippel was separated from her mother shortly after birth and adopted by a non-Indigenous family. She describes her life with her adoptive family. At the age of 12, she went to live with an aunt and uncle due to her adoptive mother's ill health. McGee-Sippel outlines her efforts to trace her birth family through Adoption Triangle. She also discusses her reunion with her birth mother and siblings, learning for the first time about her Aboriginal ancestry.
- Notes:
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- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this recording may contain names and voices of deceased persons.
- Recorded on Aug. 30, 2000 in Sydney, N.S.W.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-218365263
- Related Material:
- Accompanying material includes 4 poems.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (8 p.) and corrected transcript (typscript, 72 leaves)
- Subject:
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- McGee-Sippel, Lorraine, 1943- -- Interviews
- Families, Aboriginal Australian
- Aboriginal Australian adopted children -- New South Wales -- Cultural assimilation
- Aboriginal Australian adopted children -- New South Wales -- Ethnic identity
- Aboriginal Australian adopted children -- New South Wales -- Treatment
- Adoptive parents -- New South Wales -- Attitudes
- Aboriginal Australian family reunions
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Removal
- Race discrimination -- New South Wales
- Other authors/contributors:
- Ritch, Diana, 1943-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Bringing them home oral history project.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2070 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2000
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