No options no choice! : the Moore River experience : my father, Thomas Corbett, an Aboriginal half-caste / Rosemary van den Berg
- Bib ID:
- 78406
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Van den Berg, Rosemary, 1939-, author
- Description:
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- Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 1994
- ©1994
- 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1875641122 (paperback)
- Series:
- Kerry White collection of Australian children's books.
- Summary:
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Autobiography of Thomas Corbett as told to his daughter; born 1910 in the Pilbara, removed from his mother and taken to Moore River Settlement; working life in the south west of Western Australia; labouring and stock work; return to Moore River; marriage and family; final move from Moore River to Pinjarra in 1944.
- Subject:
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- Corbett, Thomas, 1910-1992
- Moore River Native Settlement (W.A.) -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Moore River -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Mixed descent -- Western Australia -- Moore River
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Moore River -- Social conditions
- Noongar (Australian people) -- History
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Pinjarup people (W6) (WA SI50-02)
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1901-1925
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Government policy - Assimilation - 1926-1950
- Government policy - State and territory - Western Australia
- Moore River (W.A.) -- History
- Pinjarra (SW WA SI50-02)
- Pilbara area (WA SF50, SF51, SG50)
- Moore River (SW WA SH50-14)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Corbett, Thomas, 1910-1992
- Related Records:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1994
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