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Dingo: The story of our mob by Sally Dingo
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Dingo: The story of our mob

by Sally Dingo

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Sally Dingo has written a great biography about her husband Ernie (a well known media identity in Australia). Sally spends devotes quite some space to describing the family background, the fathers, mothers, aunties etc. and the struggles that the Aborigines in the Mid-west of Western Australia had with integrating with the white culture. ( )
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Emerging from her middle-class existence in a sleepy Tasmanian town a young white woman marries a charismatic actor and the turbulent Dingo tribe. Lovingly embraced by her new Aboriginal family, they begin to yarn to her and she begins to write their memories down...This uplifting story, which spans three generations of an Aboriginal family's long struggle to find dignity and worth in a culture not their own, has been embraced by Australians everywhere.In this new edition, Sally Dingo also tells of the extraordinary reaction to her bestselling book and the flood of letters she has received from both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people full of hopeful talk of reconciliation.

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Ernie Dingo's wife Sally, a white woman from Tasmania writes the story of Ernie's family from his grandparents onward and of her and Ernie's life together.

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