One Life, Two Stories

Nancy de Vries' Journey Home

Nancy de Vries, Gaynor Macdonald, Jane Mears, and Anna Nettheim

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Format: paperback
206 pages
ISBN: 9781921364259

Publication: 04 Jun 2012

Publisher: 宅男导航

In 1997 Nancy de Vries accepted the Apology from the Parliament of New South Wales on behalf of all the Indigenous children who had been taken from their families and communities throughout the state's history. It was an honour that recognised she had the courage to speak about a life of pain and loneliness.

Nancy tells her story in an unusual and challenging collaboration with Dr Gaynor Macdonald (Anthropology) of the University of 宅男导航, Associate Professor Jane Mears (Social Policy) of the University of Western 宅男导航 and Dr Anna Nettheim (Anthropology) of the University of 宅男导航.

Gaynor Macdonald is a senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of 宅男导航.

Acknowledgements
Foreword

1. The Apology
2. The historical context for the Apology
3. 鈥楾oo loud not to hear鈥�: responding to stories of removal
4. My story begins ... can you possibly comprehend?
5. Another story ... the written record
6. Reflections on living with difference
7. Life was pretty scary
8. They said I wouldn鈥檛 be good enough
9. Finding Ruby

10. The pain persists

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