WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL

A personal memoir that pays tribute in prose and poetry to the unsung heroes of Aboriginal experience when in the past many were rounded up and removed from their tribal lands and frequently imprisoned by a colonial society and its heirs that recognised no prior Indigenous title to their own land. It honours their resistance and survival. ‘Graeme Dixon’s journey is one that has been made too often by too many Aboriginal people. It is a journey that lies within a legal system that has at its core a lock and key: on doors and windows, in hearts and minds it incarcerates whole communities. Graeme’s poems and stories speak from the heart and they speak from experience, the living voice of Aboriginal prisoners past and present. 88 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. #1016/1020/151221/020723

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