Of ashes and rivers that run to the sea
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Of ashes and rivers that run to the sea
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- Of ashes and rivers that run to the sea
- Statement of responsibility
- Marie Munkara
- Subject
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- trueAustralian
- Adopted children -- Australia -- Biography
- trueBathurst Island -- Description and travel
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
- trueAdopted children
- trueMunkara, Marie, 1960-
- trueBirthparents
- trueAboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- trueAustralia -- Social life and customs
- trueRace relations
- trueStolen generations (Australia) -- Biography
- trueAustralian literature
- trueAdelaide, South Australia
- trueAboriginal Australians
- trueLife stories -- Identity | Race and ethnicity
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving, Of Ashes and Rivers That Run to the Sea is a fearless account of being a young woman caught between two worlds. An old baptismal card falling out of a book changed the course of 28-year-old Marie Munkara's life forever. Until that moment she had no idea of her true origins in Arnhem Land. Delivered on the banks of the Mainoru River by her two grandmothers, Marie was fortunate not to have been thrown to the crocodiles, a fate reserved for babies born in her family with light skin. Knowing the child would be taken by the authorities, this matter-of-fact practice was considered much kinder for the babies and their families as it would save all from the heartbreak of separation and an unknown future for the child. But her grandmother Nellie had other ideas because she knew this one was 'special'. And so after the unexpected but welcome reprieve, Marie and her mother ended up on the Tiwi Islands before Marie was then taken and placed with a white family to be raised in Adelaide. After her chance finding of the baptismal card Marie went looking for her own family, leaving her strict Catholic establishment family aghast
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- Dewey number
- 305.89915
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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