Paint me Black

Paint me Black.
Paint me Black. SBN is 9780855753993 / 0855753994
Paint Me Black: Memories of Croker Island & Other Journeys

Publisher:Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005
Edition:Softcover
Written in English

About the book:
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