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The Colour of my Skin is a children's book that tells stories from Stolen Generations members in the Albury Wodonga and Woomera area, a group known as the 'True Australian Aboriginal Survivors'.

This is a collection of oral histories about the displacement of Aboriginal adults and children from their traditional lands to the Kahlin Compound and the Retta Dixon Children's Home in the Northern Territiory. The children's home was run by the United Inland Mission and was established within the Government compound in 1947 and both areas are referred to today as the Bagot Reserve. The author Barbara Cummings highlights the forced living of Aboriginal people at the compound to the removal of their children to the Retta Dixon home.

'The intention of this publication has been to highlight the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal families to be placed in government settlements, missions and children's homes. In this publication Aboriginal people who were removed as children recount personal oral histories of separation from their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and extended families. Recounted as well, is the trauma experienced by the parents, who were physically and legally disempowered by the laws and policies which governed all aspects of Aboriginal peoples' lives'.

'This book is a collection of oral histories compiled by Diwurruwurru-jaru at the request of the Katherine Region Stolen Generations Committee...[it] tells the stories from the perspectives of people who were forcibly removed and siblings and children of people who were taken.' (Source: Introduction page 9)

'Contains baskets and stories woven by some of the Aboriginal women of Hopevale, Cape York Peninsula, which gives an insight into their lives and crafts - both past and present.' (Source: Fishpond website)

'Oral histories of the history and culture of the Aboriginal peoples in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia; relationships with pastoralists and the law; treatment of Aboriginal people; alcohol; violent conflict; domestic service; health; Baijungu; Inggarda; Jinigudira; Maia; Mandi, Carnarvon.' (Source: TROVE)

'Elsey Station has long been famous as the setting for We of the Never-Never, Jeannie Gunn's Australian classic of pioneering outback life. In Big River Country, the Elsey is revealed through the words of the country's original inhabitants, the Mangarrayi and Yangman people of the Roper River area...' (Source: back cover)