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Indigenous Studies

A step towards healing

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February–March 1991, no. 128

Take this Child ...: From Kahlin Compound to the Retta Dixon Children’s Home by Barbara Cummings

Aboriginal Studies Press, 139pp, illus, $14.95 pb

Indigenous Studies

A step towards healing

by •
February–March 1991, no. 128

Barbara Cummings’s history combines archival research, interviews with her peers, and autobiography to declare the common experiences of an Aboriginal subculture, the ex-inmates of the Retta Dixon Home in Darwin. She deems it ‘a first step in our healing process’. It is also an outstanding contribution to feminist and Aboriginal history.

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Tim Rowse

Tim Rowse holds honorary positions at Western Sydney University and the Australian National University His books include Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 (UNSW Press, 2017) and (co-edited with Lawrence Bamblett and Fred Myers) The Difference Identity Makes (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2019).

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