Aboriginal Healing,
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Over the next years, Marion came to realise that she had to forgive non-Aboriginal people for the terrible things they had done in the past. It was the only that she could move forward in her life.
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Sharing CultureThese film clips were produced by filmmaker Michael Liu and Professor David Clark, as part of a Sharing Culture project with Professor Marion Kickett. Filming took place in Marion's home town of York in 2013.
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Your reflectionsThese three film clips have been developed so that you can reflect upon and discuss key issues affecting Aboriginal health and wellbeing. In relation to these three film clips, you might like to reflect on:
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Marion relates how she and the other Noongar children in York were not allowed to swim in a particular area of the river. When she was fifteen, her father described how he and his friends were similarly told by their parents not to swim in that location. He also related the shocking story of The Sandy. During her nursing career, Marion saw how such terrible past events have created fear in many Aboriginal people today and influence the way they behave in health settings.
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Marion relates how she read an article called 'The Body Snatchers' which described how the bones and skulls of Aboriginal people had been shipped to museums abroad. This article really impacted on her, particularly as she had dismissed what her father had told her about past events. Over the next years, Marion came to realise that she had to forgive non-Aboriginal people for the terrible things they had done in the past. It was the only that she could move forward in her life.
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Marion tells how Ruby was taken from her mother and trained as a domestic. She was raped on the station to which she was sent, and gave birth to a child who was removed. This did not happen just once... Ruby married and had three children. Alcohol numbed the pain of losing her first children and Ruby developed a drinking problem. She was imprisoned for manslaughter, but eventually overcame her problems. She needed to forgive before she could begin healing.
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