No longer a wandering spirit : family and kin reclaiming the memory of Minang woman Bessy Flowers / Sharon Huebner, Ezzard Flowers.
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TextPublisher: Crawley,Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 357 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760802226; 1760802220Subject(s): Cameron, Bessy, approximately 1849-1895 | Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography | Teachers, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Biography | Stolen generations (Australia) -- Australia -- Albany (W.A.) | Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Education | Nyunga (Australian people) | Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rightsGenre/Form: Biographies. Summary: Bessy Flowers is a hero of mine, and I'm very glad she's at the centre of a book that features her images and writing, along with the remarkable journey to situate her in family and Country' - Kim Scott Kia Kia, Noogiting Wirren, Minang Yorga, Minang Boodja No Longer a Wandering Spirit acknowledges the sleeping spirit of Bessy Flowers, a Minang ancestor belonging to the Great Southern of Western Australia. Bessy moved away from her Minang homeland in June 1867, never to return. She was a young Aboriginal woman, educated, musical, confident and hopeful. On Thursday I wished I was going to Church instead of rocking about in the steamer…Often & often my thoughts fly to dear Albany. Admired for a time, Bessy's esteemed qualities could not shield her from the injustices of colonial society. I hope you will allow us to stay on this station it comes hard on the children and myself wandering about without a home…
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Bessy Flowers is a hero of mine, and I'm very glad she's at the centre of a book that features her images and writing, along with the remarkable journey to situate her in family and Country' - Kim Scott Kia Kia, Noogiting Wirren, Minang Yorga, Minang Boodja No Longer a Wandering Spirit acknowledges the sleeping spirit of Bessy Flowers, a Minang ancestor belonging to the Great Southern of Western Australia. Bessy moved away from her Minang homeland in June 1867, never to return. She was a young Aboriginal woman, educated, musical, confident and hopeful. On Thursday I wished I was going to Church instead of rocking about in the steamer…Often & often my thoughts fly to dear Albany. Admired for a time, Bessy's esteemed qualities could not shield her from the injustices of colonial society. I hope you will allow us to stay on this station it comes hard on the children and myself wandering about without a home…
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