Paint Me Black

Download or read book Paint Me Black written by Claire Henty-Gebert and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 care of compassionate missionaries. Sent south to escape the threat from Japanese fighters during World War II, Claire later returned to Croker Island and married. Inspired by others, Claire traced her Aboriginal family, however; she was never to meet her mother.