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Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis i(9345969 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Ngaanyatjarra
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1 4 y separately published work icon Pictures from My Memory : My Story as a Ngaatjatjarra Woman Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis , Laurent Dousset (editor), Acton : Aboriginal Studies Press , 2016 9346033 2016 single work autobiography

'Pictures from my memory is a compelling autobiographical account of Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis’s life as a Ngaatjatjarra woman from the Australian Western Desert. Born in the bush at the time of first contact between her family and White Australians, Ellis’s vivid personal reflections offer both an historical record and profound emotional insight into her unique experience of being woven between cultures — her Aboriginal community and the Western worlds. Ellis shares her first memories as an Aboriginal child living in communities, through her schooling years on the reserves and the progressive culture changes that her family experienced, to her work as a renowned linguist and interpreter for judges and politicians.' (Source: Newsouth Books website)

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