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After a decade of research about identities (Guiney, 2002; Guiney Yallop, 2008), particularly my own, at the age of fifty years I found out for the first time that my material grandmother was Aboriginal. Soon afterwards, I began a new research project to explore the memories, stories, and gifts my material grandmother had left for her family and for her communities.
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Yallop, J.J.G. (2016). Finding Grandma. In: Galvin, K.T., Prendergast, M. (eds) Poetic Inquiry II – Seeing, Caring, Understanding. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-316-2_11
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