Country women and the colour bar Paperback Chapter 8: English–Ngiyampaa finderlist

Chapter 8: English–Ngiyampaa finderlist

Chapter 1: Heading ‘out the back’

Front cover: 'White Man's Burden'

paired sticks & didjeridu

upstream from Cooktown where he learned the stories in this book from his mother and other elders

Country women and the colour bar Paperback Chapter 8: English–Ngiyampaa finderlistCountry women and the colour bar is a timely corrective to established ideas about race relations in rural New South Wales. It reveals the untold story of grassroots efforts by Aboriginal and white women working together to make significant gains for Aboriginal communities prior to Aboriginal people's widespread access to citizen's rights. In the 1950s and 1960s, in towns across New South Wales, specially created Aboriginal branches of the Country