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Joel Birnie: My People’s Songs: How an Indigenous Family Survived Colonial Tasmania
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Joel Stephen Birnie chats with Gabriella about the choices he made while crafting My People’s Songs: How an Indigenous Family Survived Colonial Tasmania, his historical biography of his earliest known ancestral grandmother and her two surviving daughters. These three extraordinary matriarchs fought for the Indigenous communities they founded in Tasmania, sparking a tradition of social justice that continues in Joel’s family today. Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: You’ll meet Tarenootairer, Joel’s earliest known ancestral grandmother…
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