Down the hole, up the tree, across the sandhills : running from the State and Daisy Bates / Edna Tantjingu Williams and Eileen Wani Wingfield ; illustrated by Kunyi June-Anne McInerney
- Bib ID:
- 1956959
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Williams, Edna Tantjingu, author
- Description:
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- Alice Springs, NT : IAD Press, 2000
- ©2000
- 48 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
- ISBN:
- 1864650249
- Series:
- Kerry White collection of Australian children's books.
- Summary:
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"When they came to take the fair-skinned Aboriginal children away, they didn't always find them. Those kids were down the hole, up the tree, across the sandhills... running from the State and Daisy Bates. This is a true story." -- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Children under 10
- Cited In:
- White, v. 3, 15265
- Subject:
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- Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951
- Aboriginal Australians -- Removal -- Juvenile literature
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Government policy -- Juvenile literature
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia, Central
- Government policy - State and territory - South Australia
- Literature and stories - Juvenile
- Children
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Yankunytjatjara language (C4) (NT SG52-16)
- South Australia (SA)
- Umoona / Coober Pedy (West SA SH53-06)
- Australian
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2000
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