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The Orphans of the Stolen Generation single work   poetry   "The shadow within a little girl"
Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 The Orphans of the Stolen Generation
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Notes

  • Editor's note: This work was written from the heart by Nancy Wood (maiden name Hill), one of the stolen children who was at the homes in Bomaderry and Cootamundra, New South Wales, from 1941-1959. She was taken when just one month old.
  • Includes photograph of a group at the Cootamundra Girls Training Home, NSW, and a photograph of a group of Cootamundra and Bomadrry home Stolen Generations victims at the inquiry at Redfern in 1996.

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    y separately published work icon Koori Mail no. 158 27 August 1997 6444304 1997 newspaper issue 1997 pg. 7
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