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- ISBN: 9780733322839
- Extent: 296 pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm)
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The books we carry on our backs: 1796–1996
During the period of colonisation, Aboriginal customs and languages were prohibited from being used and spoken, which meant that many languages and their stories disappeared from circulation. A great linguistic dispossession occurred, hand in hand with a great dispossession of homelands and family structures.
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