Title: Children’s Place Learning Maps: Thinking through Country
Abstract: My friend, colleague, mentor and co-researcher, Chrissiejoy Marshall, calls herself Immiboagurramilbun when speaking her U'Alayi knowledge. She grew up on the Narran Lake in remote western New South Wales, the daughter of an Aboriginal mother and a white station owner. The story of how she came into the world is a series of colonial brutalities. Her grandmother was brought captive as a young woman from her country of the Erinbinjori peoples in far north Queensland and left for dead in the Noongaburrah country of the Narran Lake in western New South Wales. Chrissiejoy's grandfather rescued her and they married and gave birth to one child, Chrissiejoy's mother. When this child grew up and became pregnant to the white station owner, the grandmother took another long journey, fearing that the baby would be taken away because of its light coloured skin, but the mother died in childbirth. By the time Chrissiejoy was born, the Narran Lake was landlocked by the fences of white property owners. The small family of her Noongaburrah grandfather, uncles and Erinbinjori grandmother was protected by the white station owner and they rebuilt their lives there by the Narran Lake. When I recorded her story in her home in the western suburbs of Sydney, each time I asked a question there was a long pause as if she travelled through time and space to her life there by the lake.KeywordsAboriginal ChildBlue WaterLead TeacherPlace LearnBlack SwanThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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