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My grandfather, the blackfella who ran away from himself | Callum Clayton-Dixon | Comment is free | theguardian.com: Coming out of the homes, each sibling reacted differently. Patsy, the youngest, embraced her Aboriginality. “My spirit just wanted to be back with my people,” she told me. Joan denied it completely, saying she wanted nothing to do with her Aboriginal family. “I’m not Aboriginal,” she insisted. Joan ended up joining the Australian army, but died at 19 from meningitis. Then there’s my grandfather. Patsy believes her brother “was one of those blackfellas who was on the fence and didn’t know which way to go”.
The NSW Aborigines welfare board returned Norman to his family in 1945. He lived in a tin shack by the river at Inglebah Aboriginal reserve until the age of 16, and then went to work on the railway at Uralla. After he left Inglebah, Patsy saw very little of her older brother. His first son Wayne was born in 1955 to an Aboriginal woman named June Snow.
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