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This is a collaborative ethnography project with the Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation and Maya Haviland’s Side By Side Community Projects. We worked with an intergenerational group of Aboriginal women from Saltwater, Freshwater, and Desert countries around the Kimberley in Western Australia on a book about their experiences with education. The book includes creative nonfiction stories, in-depth interviews, and black and white portraiture and archival images.

In July of 2008, Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation gathered together a group of seven Aboriginal women living in Derby, Western Australia for a two and a half-week documentary workshop. The organization was interested in women’s stories of learning and education, and the women were invited to share their experiences through writing, interviews, and photographs. The workshops were held at Jalaris’ Centre down on Burinunga, a part of the old Aboriginal Reserve in town.

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