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Article: Stories from the aboriginal women of the yarning circle: when cultures collide.
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- Hecate
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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For me and many of the women in my family, our mothers and grandmothers, sisters and aunties, I often think of them and what history has done to them. Despite all of their efforts to give us a good life, they were forced into positions and subjected to great inhumanities. The greatest inhumanity that I know the women in my family experienced, was the way they were treated as mothers, Bessie.
In recent times, a number of women's groups have invited us to speak about our experiences in relation to the family. Interestingly, one of the most prominent topics on which we have been encouraged to speak has been that of the dysfunction of Aboriginal families. While to ...