Relationships with the School: Listening to the Voices of a Remote Aboriginal Community

Hilarry Colman-Dimon

doi:10.1017/S1326011100001277

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Hilarry Colman-Dimon James Cook University

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https://doi.org/10.1017/S1326011100001277

Abstract

Whites see us as crows, sitting in the nest with mouths open, waiting for the mother and father crow to come along. Those government fellas pretend to ask, but really tell us. They've had their minds made up all the time (Yanni Lester, cited by H. Penny, 1982).

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