Rene Baker: File Number 28 - E D P by Rene Powell and Bernadette Kennedy

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library book with no external stickers. Plastic contact covering. Partial date due slip on inside page. Stamp on imprint page. Small mark on tail end of first page, otherwise interior is still very good.

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 Western Australia's Central Desert. Her people are the Ngaanyatjarra. Removed at age 4, she grew up at the Mount Magnet Mission and later at the 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.