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<h1 class="" style="font-size:32px;margin:0px;line-height:38.4px;letter-spacing:0px">Language lost and regained</h1></div><div class="" style="display:inline-block;min-height:30px;margin-bottom:6px;width:1345px;color:rgb(130,129,129);font-size:10px;text-transform:uppercase;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif">
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<cite class="" style="padding-right:8px;display:inline-block;font-style:normal">STEPHEN ATKINSON</cite></li><li class="" style="list-style-type:none;margin-left:0px;white-space:nowrap;display:inline;float:left;padding-left:7px;padding-right:7px;vertical-align:middle">
<cite style="padding-right:8px;display:inline-block;font-style:normal"><a class="" href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/" style="color:rgb(130,129,129);text-decoration:none">THE AUSTRALIAN</a></cite></li><li class="" style="list-style-type:none;margin-left:0px;white-space:nowrap;display:inline;float:left;padding-left:7px;padding-right:0px;vertical-align:middle">
<span class="" style>SEPTEMBER 20, 2013</span> <span class="" style>12:02PM</span></li></ul></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small"><div class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:15px">
<p style="margin:10px 0px 14px"><strong style>AS A child living in the Bush around Iron Knob, Whyalla and Port Augusta in South Australia my mother ran through the sandhills playing and talking with her brothers and sisters in their native Barngarla tongue. Life seemed to be happy and free.</strong></p>
</div><p style="margin:10px 0px 14px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:15px">Many of these times, however, weren't always pleasant as they were running from the Big Black Car of the Welfare, coming to take the children away from their family and their home. Mum tells me how she used to gather her younger siblings together and hide them as best she could. This continued for some years until she was 8 years of age when they were caught off guard and separated and taken to mission homes in Port Augusta and Adelaide. They still had their language but no longer had the support and guidance of family to continue to be instructed and to learn their language and culture from their elders.</p>
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</div><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion/language-lost-and-regained/story-e6frgcko-1226723462161#sthash.6nKHafit.dpuf">http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion/language-lost-and-regained/story-e6frgcko-1226723462161#sthash.6nKHafit.dpuf</a></span><br>
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