Friday essay: 'I am anxious to have my children home': recovering letters of love written for Noongar children

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 July Friday essay: I am anxious to have my children home: recovering letters of love written for Noongar children Friday essay: 'I am anxious to have my children home': recovering letters of love written for Noongar children 01/07/2021 | 7 MINS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of deceased people. In the quiet of the State Records Office, I have spent many hours searching for knowledge about my family. In AustraliaΓÇÖs archives, we can find letters written by Aboriginal people to the government. We hear echoes of their voices in their words on the page. Some of these letters express grief, anger and frustration. Some protest the injustice of oppressive legislation. Archives in the State Records Office of Western Australia hold hundreds of letters written by Noongar people to the Chief Protector of Aborigines and other government officials from the turn of the 20th century. The letters were captured within manic record-keeping systems used to surveil and control Aboriginal people. These

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 July Friday essay: I am anxious to have my children home: recovering letters of love written for Noongar children Friday essay: 'I am anxious to have my children home': recovering letters of love written for Noongar children 01/07/2021 | 7 MINS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of deceased people.

In the quiet of the State Records Office, I have spent many hours searching for knowledge about my family.

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