Ankami, 9781760687410
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Secrets unearthed: a family’s stolen past, and the haunting silences.
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Ankami

stolen children, shattered families, silenced histories

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    3 November 2025

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Summary

Ankami: Echoes of Stolen Generations

Debra Dank longed to piece together her family history, to breathe life into faded names and fragments of stories at the National Archives. But the truths she unearthed shattered her perception of the past.

She knew of her father’s siblings, but whispers, gaps, and silences surrounded them. Her family seemed to have narrowly avoided the horrors of stolen children. Yet, the records revealed her paternal grandmother bore ten children. Four …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760687410
ISBN-10:1760687413
Author:Debra Dank
Publisher:Allen & Unwin
Imprint:Echo Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:3 November 2025
Weight:189g
Dimensions:210mm x 135mm
About The Author

Debra Dank

Dr. Debra Dank is a Gudanji/Wakaja and Kalkadoon woman from the Barkly Tablelands in the Northern Territory and an Enterprise Fellow with the University of South Australia. She has 40 years of experience in primary, secondary, and tertiary education roles, in both urban and remote areas across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and the Northern Territory. Her interests include multiform narrative and its practice in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities, as well as the role semiotics plays in that. Her book, We Come with This Place, received numerous awards in 2023, including four New South Wales Premier’s Awards and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Debra is passionate about the environment, especially as her Country, on the Beetaloo Basin, faces the threat of fracking.

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