"Claire Henty-Gebert was probably born in the mid-1920s near Frew River station, about 400 km northeast of Alice Springs, in Kaytetye and Alyawarra country. She was the child of white settler Harry Henty, and Ruby Ngwarie, an Alyawarra woman." "Separated from her mother at three…
Born in the late 1930s, the daughter of a white settler and an Alyawarra woman, Claire was four years old when she was taken to the Bungalow mission in Alice Springs. Much of her young life was spent on the newly formed Croker Island mission, and she recalls happy days in the ca…
<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>Growing up on the west coast of Queensland's Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and 1980s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age of 16, she moved to Sydney to attend the NAISDA Dance College, whe…
A gripping memoir about living across two cultures. Growing up 'on country' on the west coast of Queensland's Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and '80s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age of 16, she decided to pursue her dream of performin…
Growing up on the west coast of Queensland's Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and 1980s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age of 16, she moved to Sydney to attend the NAISDA Dance College, where she studied with the legendary Page brothers. …