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Sykes, Roberta B., 1943-2010,

Snake cradle / Snake dreaming. Roberta Sykes. - St. Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 1997. - 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Snake dreaming . - Snake dreaming. .

Aboriginal content.

(v. 1). Snake cradle -- (v. 2). Snake dancing -- (v. 3). Snake circle.

This first volume of Roberta Sykes's three volume biography, chronicles the early years of one of Australia's best known activists for Aboriginal rights from the time of her birth in Townsville in the 1940s through to the birth of her son when she was seventeen, and the trial of the men who raped her.

National Biography Award of Australia, 1998.

ISBN: 9781864485134 (paperback)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Sykes, Roberta B.
Sykes, Roberta B., 1943-2010.
Sykes, Roberta B., 1943-2010 --Biography.
Sykes, Roberta B--Biography.
Sykes, Roberta B, 1943-2010.
Sykes, Bobbi.
Sykes, Roberta B., 1943-2010.
Sykes, Roberta B., 1943-2010 --Biography.
Sykes, Roberta B., 1943-2010.
Sykes, Roberta B.
Sykes, Roberta B.
Sykes, Roberta B.
Sykes, Roberta B., 1943-

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Afro-Americans--Biography.--Australia
Sykes, Roberta B.
Aborigines, Australian--Women--Biography.
Afro-American women--Biography.--Australia
Autobiographies.
Aboriginal Australians--Women--Biography.
Authors, Australian--Biography.
African American women--Australia--Biography.
African Americans--Australia--Biography.
Racism--Australia--Anecdotes.
Racism--Australia.
Authors, Australian.
Racism.
Women, Aboriginal Australian.
Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions.
Authors, Australian--20th century--Biography.
Aboriginal Australians--Biography.
Authors, Australian--Biography.
Aboriginal Australians--Civil rights.
Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.
Women, Aboriginal Australian--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Australia--Biography.
Aborigines.
Australia.

Subjects--Index Terms: Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions Racism - Australia Aboriginal Australians - Civil rights Aboriginal Australians - Land tenure Sykes, Roberta B

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Indigenous Heritage
Biography.
Biographies.

Dewey Class. No.: 994.0049915