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Lowitja : the authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue / Stuart Rintoul.

Lowitja : the authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue / Stuart Rintoul.
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ISBN 9781761065583
1761065580
9781760875602
1760875600
Location 305.89 ODO
Author Rintoul, Stuart
Title Lowitja : the authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue / Stuart Rintoul.
Published Sydney, New South Wales : Allen & Unwin, 2021.
©2021.
Collation 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
Contents Note Book one: Land of fierce lights -- Book two: Iti (The baby) -- Book three: An old suitcase and a wedding picture -- Book four: Lily's daughter -- Book five: The wind across the sandhills -- Book six: 'Pagan woman rises' -- Book seven: Only she -- Book eight: 'My name is Lowitja' -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Permissions -- Index.
Summary Note "Lowitja O'Donoghue is a truly great Australian. She is arguably our nation's most recognised Indigenous woman. A powerful and unrelenting advocate for her people, an inspiration for many, a former Australian of the Year, she sat opposite Prime Minister Paul Keating in the first negotiations between an Australian government and Aboriginal people and changed the course of the nation. But when Lowitja was born in 1932 to an Aboriginal mother and a white father in the harsh and uncompromising landscape of Central Australia the expectations for her life could not have been more different. At the age of two, she was handed over to the missionaries of the Colebrook Home for Half-Caste Children and cut off completely from her people and her culture. She would not see her mother again for another thirty years and would have no memory of her father. In 2001 a bitter controversy arose over whether Lowitja was 'stolen' as a child. In search of a past she did not remember, Lowitja went back to Central Australia accompanied by journalist Stuart Rintoul. This ground-breaking and long-awaited biography completes that journey into Lowitja's life and the challenging history of her times. It is a remarkable work about an extraordinary woman." - Back cover.
Personal Name O'Donoghue, Lowitja,1932-
Corporate Name Australia.Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander CommissionOfficials and employees
Subject Biography
Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
Yankunytjatjara people (C4) (NT SG52-16)
Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
Stolen generations (Australia) -- Biography
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
Yankunytjatjara (Australian people) -- Biography
Indigenous women -- Australia -- Biography
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