Linguapax
Teacher of Two Worlds by Dannae Synot
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AN Aboriginal woman’s ability to walk in both black and white worlds has given her the power and knowledge to become one of Australia’s leading indigenous educators.
May O’Brien was born in 1933 in the Goldfields district of Edjudina to a fair-skinned Aboriginal mother and a non-Aboriginal father.
“I grew up in a time when police were picking up half-caste Aboriginal kids and they thought I looked more white than black,” she said.
“They would shoot at us and anyone who was full Aboriginal was killed, then put on a cart and taken to the rubbish dump. They were absolutely cruel and it forced me to grow up quickly.”
Mrs O’Brien had to abide by a strict lunchtime curfew to be out of sight in the main township or face harsh consequences.
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