When the Pelican Laughed

Paperback, 224 pages

English language

Published July 22, 1999 by Fremantle Arts Center Pr.

ISBN:
978-1-86368-328-9
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Simply told but surprisingly engaging

Autobiography of an Indigenous woman who was taken from her family & country as a teenager and 'cared for' (i.e. exploited) by the Aborigines Department. She lived a life full of hard work and undeserved prejudice with grace & strength. Simply told but surprisingly engaging.

Subjects

  • History
  • Reference
  • Biography
  • Australia - History
  • Ethnic Sociology
  • Western Australia
  • Nannup, Alice,
  • History: World
  • 1911-
  • Social conditions
  • Women, Aboriginal Australian
  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Australia