My traditional country is Banyjima Country, which is where my mum and her parents were from.
In 1936, my mother Stella [Cella] Tucker was taken away from Lang Hancock's Mulga Downs Station at the age of six and placed in the Moore River Native Settlement (Mogumber Mission). Many years later my mother, Stella, was reunited with her mother Gertie lGardie] and her husband, Ginger Parker, both of the Banyjima language group, whose home country includes Gina Rinehart's Mulga Downs Station. Gertie later told my mother, Stella, that mum's biological father was Lang Hancock. This was confirmed by several Banyjima elders. In addition, my mother's story was featured on page one of the Sunday Times (14 June 1992), the year Lang Hancock died. Stella stayed at Moore River until she was 14, and was always told (even though it wasn’t true) that her parents were dead. She ran away a lot, and when she was picked up and brought back they would shave her hair and put her in a cement cell nicknamed the ‘the boob’ lock up as punishment. She was locked up for two days at a time and was given only bread and water. When she was finally able to leave the mission, she started working on farms in and around the town of Moora.
She had my eldest brother Chris, and then he was taken away from her when he was 18 months old and placed in Sister Kates’ Childrens’ Home in Perth.
Mum met my father, Reuben Robinson, the next year and had nine children to him. My father was another stolen generations victim. He and his six sisters and three brothers were taken away and put into Moore River.
My mum and dad lived together in Moora, which is where I was born in Moora. Then we moved to Cue, which is where I grew up with my five brothers and four sisters. Interview filmed by Dr Bill Day, 2014.
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