![]() ![]() The point is clear: there is no universal experience of growing up Aboriginal. It means knowing one’s mob and speaking their language, or never knowing your ancestors or what language they spoke. It means growing up on Country, but also being a city kid. ![]() It means growing up surrounded by family, but it also means being removed from kin. There is no one definition of growing up Aboriginal. There are poems, essays and letters, and they offer varied – and sometimes conflicting – perspectives on what it means to grow up Aboriginal in Australia. The anthology highlights the importance of lived experience: Heiss does not tell the reader what growing up Aboriginal is like, she lets the reader consider more than fifty different answers to that question for themselves.Įach contribution is different: not only in terms of the writer’s age, socio-economic background, education and location, but in approach and writing style. ![]()
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