Under a bilari tree I born : the story of Alice Bilari Smith / Alice Bilari Smith with Anna Vitenbergs and Loreen Brehaut
- Bib ID:
- 652529
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Smith, Alice, 1923-2012
- Description:
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- Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002
- 233 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1863683917
- Summary:
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"Alice Bilari Smith has lived in the Pilbara all her life, on stations and in the bush, on government reserves and in towns. As a girl on Rocklea Station she narrowly avoided removal from her family by 'the welfare'. Instead Alice learned to cook and launder, sew and clean, shoe horses, chop wood and milk cows. Her working life on stations continued as a young married woman and she added mustering, dingo scalping, shearers' assistant and sheepyard building to her skills. Alice Bilari Smith also grew up in the ways of the country, hunting, cooking and building in the traditional manner. By the time she had five children of her own she was playing an active role in caring for other Aboriginal children and she initiated the establishment of a Homemakers Centre in Roebourne." - first page
"Alice Bilari Smith has lived in the Pilbara all her life, on stations and in the bush, on government reserves and in towns. As a girl on Rocklea Station she narrowly avoided removal from her family by 'the welfare'. Instead Alice learned to cook and launder, sew and clean, shoe horses, chop wood and milk cows. Her working life on stations continued as a young married woman and she added mustering, dingo scalping, shearers' assistant and sheepyard building to her skills. Alice Bilari Smith also grew up in the ways of the country, hunting, cooking and building in the traditional manner. By the time she had five children of her own she was playing an active role in caring for other Aboriginal children and she initiated the establishment of a Homemakers Centre in Roebourne." - first page.
- Notes:
- Bibliography.
- Subject:
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- Smith, Alice, 1923-2012
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Pilbara -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Pilbara -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Pilbara -- History
- Gender relations - Gender roles
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Ceremonies
- Stories and motifs - Eagles / hawks / crows
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Reproduction - Childbirth
- History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Social organisation
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation
- Material culture - Bird feather objects and decorations
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Politics and Government - Civil rights and citizenship
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems
- Gender relations - Marriage
- Food - Sociocultural aspects - Avoidance
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Banjima people (A53) (WA SF50-11)
- Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes
- Pilbara area (WA SF50, SF51, SG50)
- Rocklea Station (WA West Pilbara SF 50-03)
- Yirramagadu / Roebourne (WA West Pilbara SF50-03)
- Wyloo (WA West Pilbara SF50-10)
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- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2002
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