A tear in the soul /
Webster, Amanda,
A tear in the soul / Amanda Webster. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references.
A foreigner's criticism provides the impetus for Amanda Webster to embark on a long-intended search for two former school friends -- Aboriginal kids from the Kurrawang Mission near where she grew up in Kalgoorlie. As a child, Webster supposed Mission kids were well-cared for orphans, however growing awareness forced her to think otherwise. Over the years her questions accumulated: were her friends members of the Stolen Generations? What was life at Kurrawang really like? What are her responsibilities as a non-Indigenous Australian whose family's privilege was built on stolen land?For an institution that existed for over two decades, Webster finds that Kurrawang was strangely undocumented. Nor can she find any trace of her former friends, including a young Aboriginal girl who went on a beach holiday with Amanda's family. Then in 2012, Webster meets Gregory Ugle, an older brother of her former friend Tony. After a four-decade absence, Webster returns to her hometown with Ugle to reconnect with her former friends, and to piece together Kurrawang's story through oral histories and local newspaper archives. Over several trips, a sometimes uneasy tension emerges with Ugle as both he and Webster inch towards a fragile reconciliation.
9781742242552 (electronic bk.) 1742242553 (electronic bk.)
992196 MIL
Webster, Amanda--Childhood and youth.
Webster, Amanda.
Children, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Kurrawang Mission (W.A.)
Stolen generations (Australia)--Australia--Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--History.--Australia--Western Australia
Reconciliation.
Générations volées (Australie)--Australie--Australie-Occidentale.
Australiens (Aborigènes), Attitudes envers les--Histoire.--Australie--Australie-Occidentale
Réconciliation.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Rich & Famous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Royalty.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
Children, Aboriginal Australian.
Reconciliation.
Stolen generations (Australia)
Kurrawang Mission (W.A.)
Western Australia.
Australian
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
DU124.C45 / W43 2016
920.720994
A tear in the soul / Amanda Webster. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references.
A foreigner's criticism provides the impetus for Amanda Webster to embark on a long-intended search for two former school friends -- Aboriginal kids from the Kurrawang Mission near where she grew up in Kalgoorlie. As a child, Webster supposed Mission kids were well-cared for orphans, however growing awareness forced her to think otherwise. Over the years her questions accumulated: were her friends members of the Stolen Generations? What was life at Kurrawang really like? What are her responsibilities as a non-Indigenous Australian whose family's privilege was built on stolen land?For an institution that existed for over two decades, Webster finds that Kurrawang was strangely undocumented. Nor can she find any trace of her former friends, including a young Aboriginal girl who went on a beach holiday with Amanda's family. Then in 2012, Webster meets Gregory Ugle, an older brother of her former friend Tony. After a four-decade absence, Webster returns to her hometown with Ugle to reconnect with her former friends, and to piece together Kurrawang's story through oral histories and local newspaper archives. Over several trips, a sometimes uneasy tension emerges with Ugle as both he and Webster inch towards a fragile reconciliation.
9781742242552 (electronic bk.) 1742242553 (electronic bk.)
992196 MIL
Webster, Amanda--Childhood and youth.
Webster, Amanda.
Children, Aboriginal Australian--Australia--Kurrawang Mission (W.A.)
Stolen generations (Australia)--Australia--Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--History.--Australia--Western Australia
Reconciliation.
Générations volées (Australie)--Australie--Australie-Occidentale.
Australiens (Aborigènes), Attitudes envers les--Histoire.--Australie--Australie-Occidentale
Réconciliation.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Rich & Famous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Royalty.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
Children, Aboriginal Australian.
Reconciliation.
Stolen generations (Australia)
Kurrawang Mission (W.A.)
Western Australia.
Australian
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
DU124.C45 / W43 2016
920.720994