Growing up Wiradjuri: Stories from the Wiradjuri Nation

by HEISS, Anita & LEDDEN-LEWIS, Charmaine

ISBN: 9781922613745
Australian: Yes
Published: 2022 by Magabala Books
Level: Middle Years (6-9)

Aboriginal/ATSI Content

Eight Wiradjuri Elders talk of their lives growing up along the River Murray in Wiradjuri country in the middle of the twentieth century. Hounded by the welfare trying to take the children, living in shanties along the river, getting ]work at a lower wage because they re black, picking fruit, the strength of all these people is the role of family.