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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Shared Lives on Nigena Country : A Joint Biography of Katie and Frank Rodriguez, 1944-1994
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'This thesis enlarges understanding of Australian social history through a biographical study of a mixed-descent multicultural Catholic family in the north of Australia. It highlights a new dimension of the historical multiculturalism of the West Kimberley community while revealing the experiences of a hidden segment of Aboriginal society whose lives were not continuously subject to police or welfare surveillance, nor dominated by conflict and animosity. It also adds to the corpus of life story writing by Indigenous authors.'  (Introduction)

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  • This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The University of Western Australia : School of Humanities (Discipline - History)

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Removed : An Excerpt from Shared Lives on Nigena Country Jacinta Solonec , 2018 single work biography
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 63 no. 2 2018; (p. 70-83)

'Faces swollen and sticky with tears and dust, they clung to one another.' 

Jimmy Casim was a teenager when he came to Australia in the 1880s. He was a deckhand on an Indian cargo vessel, of which his uncle was the bosun (Fraser: 2003). At that time, ships from the subcontinent delivered teams of Afghan cameleers and their camels to Australian ports for the 'opening up' of the inland. They were heady days when his uncle's ship made several trips a year back and forth from Karachi to Fremantle (State Records Office). Jimmy became ill on one of those voyages so with his uncle's encouragement to seek help he 'jumped ship' only to remain the Western Australia for the rest of his life (Fraser: 2013; Goodall et al. 57). Like others from his part of the world the young seafarer merged into a life of indentured labour, and he merged with Aboriginal peoples. Jimmy Casim was my maternal great-grandfather.'  (Introduction)
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