Booksie link

evening all

I now have an account with Booksie where I have posted a small poem/short story about my Grandmother. This is the link

http://www.booksie.com/memoir/poetry/deniseann/my-nanna/chapter/1
If you do not want to visit that site the direct link is

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7zr9wz749dqef1d


I live in Australia and was born in 1963. My grandmother was Aboriginal but we kids were told she was Indian.

I learnt at 30 years of age about the lies my family had told me.

In 1967 there was a referendum to give Australian Aboriginals recognition of being human. Pre 1967 we were classed as part of the flora and fauna of this great country.

I was born an animal.

Up until the 1990's, Aboriginal children were taken from their families purely because they were Aboriginal.

Hence the lies my family told me.

This short poem/story is about my Nanna.

I hope you enjoy.