Tripping over feathers : scenes in the life of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams : a narrative of the Stolen Generations / Peter Read
- Bib ID:
- 4600801
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Read, Peter, 1945-
- Description:
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- Crawley, W.A. : UWA Press, 2009
- xxxv, 149 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781921401350
- Summary:
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Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams was a member of the Stolen Generations. She was removed from her mother at birth and put into a home for white girls. She spent ten years in court suing the State Government for negligence. Not only did Joy lose the case but lost two seperate appeals. Several years later she was found dead, alone in her flat.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 147-148.
- Subject:
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- Williams, Joy, 1942-2006
- Stolen generations (Australia) -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Australian poetry -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- Biography
- Mentally ill -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Substance use -- New South Wales -- Biography
- History - Biographies - Indigenous
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Mental health - Depression
- Wiradjuri people (D10) (NSW SI55-07)
- Literature and stories - Poetry
- Child welfare - Children's homes
- Substance use - Medicinal drugs
- Tuross / Bodalla / Eurobodalla (NSW Far S Coast SJ55-04)
- Bomaderry (NSW S Coast SI56-09)
- Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
- Also Titled:
- Scenes in the life of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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