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Title: Daughter of the river country :from stolen childhood to remarkable leader - a memoir of survival and triumph /Dianne O'Brien. Author: O'Brien, Dianne,(author.). Location: 305.89 OBR Added Name: Williams, Sue, (author.). Subject: Stolen generations (Australia) Aboriginal Australians. Aboriginal Australians -- History. Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of. Women, Aboriginal Australian--Biography. Adoptive parents -- Australia. Desertion and non-support -- Australia. Rape victims -- Australia. Pregnant women -- Australia. Mothers -- Australia. Married people -- Australia. Abused women -- Australia. Family violence -- Australia. Birthmothers -- Australia. Human rights workers -- Australia. Published: Richmond, VIC : Echo Publishing,2021. Corporate Name: Parramatta Girls Home (Parramatta, N.S.W.) SUBJECT: Australian Biography & Memoir (Australia) Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia) All Australian Indigenous Material (Australia) ISBN: 9781760686574 1760686573 Collation: 336 pages :portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm. Summary Note: "From a victim of the Stolen Generations comes a remarkable memoir of abuse, survival - and ultimately hope. Born in country NSW in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her Aboriginal mother … At the age of thirty-six, while raising six kids on her own, Dianne discovers she is a Yorta Yorta woman, a daughter of the river country. She is reunited with her birth mother … Miraculously she finds a way to forgive her traumatic past and becomes a leader in her own right, vowing to help other stolen people just like her." - Back cover. General Note: "A story about the power of love." -- Linda Burney, MP, Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum, 17- 18 July 2021. Collection code: W - Women. ------------------------------ TF1302115 Available at Main Women 305.89 OBR -----------------------------------------------