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

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

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781920731991
Author: Rene Powell
Additional Authors: Bernadette Kennedy
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Place: Fremantle WA
Year: 2005
Format: Paperback
Pages: 221 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

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 at 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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