It's a long road back : a film /

This powerful documentary was made by Oomera (Coral) Edwards on Super 8mm film as a training exercise at the (then) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra. The film surveys the New South Wales policy of taking Aboriginal children from their families and putting them in institutions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Edwards, Oomera
Corporate Author:	Kanopy (Firm)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Published:	[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
Series:	AIATSIS Collection.
Subjects:	Children, Aboriginal Australian. Stolen generations (Australia) Aboriginal Australians > Material culture. Ethnophilosophy. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video

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Summary:	This powerful documentary was made by Oomera (Coral) Edwards on Super 8mm film as a training exercise at the (then) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra. The film surveys the New South Wales policy of taking Aboriginal children from their families and putting them in institutions run by the Aborigines Welfare Board. From 1883 to 1969, this policy deprived generations of children of their Aboriginal identity. Oomera was one of these children, and she discusses her own struggle to regain her Aboriginality. The film also includes a moving interview with a former matron at an Aboriginal Welfare Home in Cootamundra, expressing her on-going concern that Aboriginal children were removed from their parents without any consultation or parental permission.--Kanopy.
Item Description:	On cover: "The story of one woman's struggle to regain her Aboriginality".
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file, 13 min. 27 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Format:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.