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Barbara Weir was a "Stolen Generations" baby, being born in 1945 at Bundy River station near Utopia with an Aboriginal mother and an Irish father, she was taken by Native Welfare to be fostered out to a non-Aboriginal family - her own family believing she had been killed. Remarkably she was reunited with her mother (the painter Minnie Pwerle) at Utopia thirteen years later, and had to relearn her mother language. Her aunt was the famous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c.1910-1996), who had 'grown her up'. She played a major role in their 1974 land rights claim. Barbara Weir's Dreamings include Bush Berry, Grass Seed, Bush Yam, Bush Plum, and Bush Banana and her art is revered world wide.
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