Tripping over feathers
Subtitle: scenes in the life of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams : a narrative of the Stolen Generations
By: Peter Read
Publisher: UWA Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Crawley, W.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781921401350
Subjects: Substance use; Mentally ill; Australian Women poets; Aboriginal Australian Women; Stolen generations (Australia); Biography; Aboriginal Australians
Other titles: Scenes in the life of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams
Description: Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams was a member of the Stolen Generations. She was removed from her mother at birth and put into a home for white girls. As an effected adult she spent ten years in court suing the State Government for negligence. Not only did Joy lose the case but lost two seperate appeals. Several years later she was found dead, alone, in her Primbee flat in New South Wales.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-148).