Daughter of The River Country / Dianne O'Brien with Sue Williams.
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TextPublisher: London : Echo, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760686574; 1760686573Subject(s): O'Brien, Dianne | O'Brien, Dianne -- Childhood and youth | O'Brien, Dianne -- Family | Parramatta Girls Home (Parramatta, N.S.W.) | Aboriginal Australians -- History | Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of | Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography | Adoptive parents -- Australia | Rape victims -- Australia | Pregnant women -- Australia | Mothers -- Australia | Married people -- Australia | Abused women -- Australia | Family violence -- Australia | Birthmothers -- Australia | Stolen generations (Australia) | Aboriginal Australians | Desertion and non-support -- Australia | Human rights workers -- AustraliaGenre/Form: Autobiographies. DDC classification: 305.89915/092 Summary: Born in rural Australia in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her parents and placed with a white family. Raised in an era of widespread racism, she grows up believing her Irish adoptive mother is her birth mother. When her adoptive mother tragically dies and she is abandoned by her adoptive father, Dianne is raped, sent to the brutal Parramatta Girls Home and forced to marry her rapist in order to keep her baby. After suffering years of domestic abuse, but refusing to let her spirit be broken, Diane finally discovers she is a Yorta Yorta woman, a daughter of the river country, and is reunited with her birth mother. She learns that her great-grandfather was a famous Aboriginal activist and from here she becomes a powerful leader in her own right, vowing to help others in any way she can.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | 305 .89915 OBR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111082195874 |
Born in rural Australia in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her parents and placed with a white family. Raised in an era of widespread racism, she grows up believing her Irish adoptive mother is her birth mother. When her adoptive mother tragically dies and she is abandoned by her adoptive father, Dianne is raped, sent to the brutal Parramatta Girls Home and forced to marry her rapist in order to keep her baby. After suffering years of domestic abuse, but refusing to let her spirit be broken, Diane finally discovers she is a Yorta Yorta woman, a daughter of the river country, and is reunited with her birth mother. She learns that her great-grandfather was a famous Aboriginal activist and from here she becomes a powerful leader in her own right, vowing to help others in any way she can.
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