Daughter of the River Country, Dianne O'Brien with Sue Williams
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Daughter of the River Country, Dianne O'Brien with Sue Williams
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eng
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autobiography
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non fiction
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Daughter of the River Country
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Dianne O'Brien with Sue Williams
Summary
Born in rural Australia in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her parents and placed with a white family. Raised in an era of widespread racism, she grows up believing her Irish adoptive mother is her birth mother. When her adoptive mother tragically dies and she is abandoned by her adoptive father, Dianne is raped, sent to the brutal Parramatta Girls Home and forced to marry her rapist in order to keep her baby. After suffering years of domestic abuse, but refusing to let her spirit be broken, Diane finally discovers she is a Yorta Yorta woman, a daughter of the river country, and is reunited with her birth mother. She learns that her great-grandfather was a famous Aboriginal activist and from here she becomes a powerful leader in her own right, vowing to help others in any way she can
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- Aboriginal Australians + History
- O'Brien, Dianne -- Childhood and youth
- Pregnant women
- O'Brien, Dianne
- Stolen generation (Australia)
- Married people
- Birthmothers
- Desertion and non-support
- Aboriginal Australians
- Adoptive parents
- O'Brien, Dianne -- Family
- Victims of family violence
- Mothers
- Parramatta Girls Home (Parramatta, N.S.W.)
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- Human rights workers
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Rape victims
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- Creator1
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- Subject19
- Aboriginal Australians + History
- O'Brien, Dianne -- Childhood and youth
- Pregnant women
- O'Brien, Dianne
- Stolen generation (Australia)
- Married people
- Birthmothers
- Desertion and non-support
- Aboriginal Australians
- Adoptive parents
- O'Brien, Dianne -- Family
- Victims of family violence
- Mothers
- Parramatta Girls Home (Parramatta, N.S.W.)
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- Human rights workers
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Rape victims
- Content2
- Author2