Genocide: the distance between law and life

  • Behrendt L
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When we left Port Augusta, when they took us away, we could only talk Aboriginal. We only knew one language and when we went down there, well we had to communicate somehow. Anyway, when I come back I couldn't even speak my own language. And that really buggered my identity up. It took me 40 odd years before I became a man in my own people's eyes, through Aboriginal law. Whereas I should've went through that when I was about 12 years of age. 1 The thing that people were denied in being removed from family was that they were denied being read as Aboriginal people, they were denied being educated in an Aboriginal way. 2

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Behrendt, L. (2011). Genocide: the distance between law and life. Aboriginal History Journal, 25. https://doi.org/10.22459/ah.25.2011.08

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