Rene Baker: File #28/E.D.P by Rene Powell and Bernadette Kennedy
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Rene Baker: File #28/E.D.P by Rene Powell and Bernadette Kennedy

SKU TBM9781920731991
AU$29.00
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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Wobble to book and slight lift to front cover. Previous owner has signed book.

This book tells the harrowing story of the life of Rene Baker who, at the age of four, was forcibly removed from her mother and taken to a mission over 350 miles away. Constantly told that her Aboriginal family had rejected her and deeply scarred by the mission experience, it wasn't until Rene made the journey home and met her people at the age of twenty-one that she began to learn the real truth.
With the help of her friend, Bernadette Kennedy, she began to search through government archives for the truth about her removal and in the process uncovered the highly questionable legal basis of many of the removals of Aboriginal children in Western Australia in the 1940s and 1950s. (publisher blurb)
Rene Powell was born in 1948 in the Warburton Ranges in the Central Desert of Western Australia. Her people are the Ngaanyatjarra. Removed at the age of four, she grew up at the Mount Magnet Mission and then Kurrawang Mission where she trained for domestic work.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers, please note that this book may contain descriptions and/or images of people who have passed away.
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