Down the Hole, Up the Tree, Across the Sandhills : Running from the State and Daisy Bates

Description

This is an important account of the experiences of Indigenous children in Coober Pedy whom the State took from their families over several decades. In order to protect them, their families would, as the book says, ‘chuck em’ down the mining holes to hide all day until nightfall when the State people went away.

The book includes Indigenous language words from three Aboriginal languages – Yankunytjatjara, Kolkatha and Maṯutjara.