Julie Wilson interviewed by Frank Heimans in the Bringing them home oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 761466
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Wilson, Julie, 1958-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2001
- 3 digital audio tapes (195 min.)
- Series:
- Bringing them home oral history project.
- Summary:
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Wilson speaks about her removal from her family at the age of 3 weeks to be placed at the Benevolent Society Home and her subsequent adoption. She was not told that she was Aboriginal and only discovered the details through Link-Up in 1990 when New South Wales legislation changed allowing adoptees access to their birth data. Her birth mother was of the Ngiyampaa and Barkindji people, Menindee, and was removed to Cootamundra Girls Home around the age of 7 and later worked as a domestic in Vaucluse. Wilson speaks about attending Chatswood Public School; the views of her adoptive parents on her Aboriginality; meeting with her sister and brother; and her exploration of her newly discovered cultural identity.
- Notes:
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- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this recording may contain names and voices of deceased persons.
- Recorded on Jan. 30, 2001 at Lawson, N.S.W.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-218377945
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 66 leaves)
- Subject:
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- Wilson, Julie, 1958- -- Interviews
- Link-up
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Ethnic identity
- Aboriginal Australians -- Cultural assimilation -- Government policy -- New South Wales
- Aboriginal Australian adopted children -- New South Wales -- Interviews
- Aboriginal Australians -- Removal
- Families, Aboriginal Australian -- New South Wales
- Other authors/contributors:
- Heimans, Frank, 1943-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Bringing them home oral history project.
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2001
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