Donna Louise Morris interviewed by John Maynard in the Bringing them home oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 712724
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Morris, Donna Louise, 1965-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1999
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 83 min.)
- Series:
- Bringing them home oral history project.
- Summary:
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Morris, a stage manager, welfare worker and Indigenous separated child, speaks about her family background and her memories of a bush childhood with siblings. At the age of 9, she was made a Ward of the State and removed from her mother along with her three siblings to St Patrick's Catholic Orphanage at Armidale, N.S.W. She describes living conditions at the Orphanage. Morris was later moved to a number of institutions and foster homes. She also speaks about locating her siblings through Link-up in 1984.
- 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 Feb. 10 and Mar. 4, 1999 in Newcastle, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Summary (2 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 29 leaves)
- Subject:
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- Morris, Donna Louise, 1965- -- Interviews
- St. Patrick's Catholic Orphanage (Armidale, N.S.W.)
- Aboriginal Australian foster children -- New South Wales -- Interviews
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care -- New South Wales -- Armidale
- Aboriginal Australians -- Removal
- Aboriginal Australian family reunions -- New South Wales
- Other authors/contributors:
- Maynard, John, 1954-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Bringing them home oral history project.
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1999
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