Wailing, The: A National Black Oral History

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANA –

‘The Wailing is about memories: about the “long time”, of poison in the flour, deadening years of protection and assimilation. But is also about the pride and power of black Australia in 1993. The Wailing is Australia’s first national black oral history. Aboriginal history is oral history.’

1. 1. Kilayurilapa : I Don’t Want to Forget, Dusty Stevens  , Joyce Ingram  , Polly Smith  , Hazel Catlin  , Elsie Rose Jones  , Sunshine Williams  , Ern Catlin  , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), oral history (p. 15-36)

2

Leaping like Witches, Pat O’Shane  , Ralph Winmar  , Alf Bamblett  , Ted Wilkes  , Tombo Winters  , Geraldine Briggs  , Isabel Flick  , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), oral history (p. 37-81)

3

I Be Crying, Gertie Sambo  , Koppa Yunkaporta  , Ida West  , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), life story (p. 83-101)

4

Under the Mission Bell, Joyleen Abbott  , Henry Fourmile  , Roslyn Choikee  , Topsy Wolmby  , Bruce Yunkaporta  , Gordon Coulthard  , Mark McKenzie  , Agnes Palmer  , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), oral history (p. 103-135)

5

Swimming for Lilies, Wadjularbinna  , Victoria Archibald  , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), oral history (p. 137-166)

6

Broken Dreams, Lana Abbott  , Archie Roach  , Cadley Sambo  , Donnas Barker  , Alf Drew  , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), oral history (p. 167-193)

7

Born in that Hard Time, Nellie Sheridan  , Monty Prior  , Carl Wyles  , Millie Taylor  , Dick Purvis  , Willie Williams  , Eric Panaga  , Furley Gardner  , Amos Donovan  , Angus Wallam  , Henry Clarke  , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), oral history (p. 195-236)

8

Bit of Flour and Tea and Sugar, June E. Barker  , Roy Barker  , Julie Whitton  , Emmanuel Cooper  , Doris Graham  , oral history (p. 237-277)

9

Ordinary White, Maggie Morris  , Bruce Munro  , Charles Perkins  , Lionel Rose  , Kevin Marr  , Tommy Lyons  , Dave Champion  , Ray Orchard  , Veronica Brodie  , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), oral history (p. 279-318)

10

Eraritjaritjaka Albutjika : Longing to Return Home, David Mowaljarlai  , Gerald Quayle  , Shane Phillips  , Ngarla Kunoth  , Annette Peardon  , Eve Mumewa D. Fesl  , Priscilla Boney  , Hudson Boney  , Brian Champion  , Joe Burgoyne  , Noel Blair  , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), oral history (p. 319-355)

11

A Silent Tear Running Down, Arthur Baumgarten  , Douglas Abbott  , Essie Coffey  , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), oral history (p. 357-375)

• 422 pages, 32 pages of plates : ill., portraits ; 24 cm. First Edition. #311025 (Gift inscription on prelim.)

• Bibliography : page 417-420.

  First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Race relations – Racism – Stereotyping
  • History – Oral history
  • Government policy – Assimilation
  • Social organisation – Kinship – Systems
  • Child welfare – Child / parent separation – Stolen generations
  • Australia

  Subject:

  • Oral history
  • Aboriginal Australians — Interviews
  • Aboriginal Australians — Social conditions
  • Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of