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This is the story of Kaurna man Uncle Lewis O'Brien and his family, beginning with his great, great grandmother Kudnarto - the first Aboriginal woman to marry a white man in South Australia. An esteemed Aboriginal elder, Lewis O'Brien worked as a fitter and machinist for 30 years, before joining the SA education department as an Aboriginal education liaison officer in 1977, where his presence made a real impact on the numbers of Indigenous children completing high school.

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Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien is a Kaurna Elder of the Adelaide Plains, Aboriginal Elder of the Year in 1997, Winner of the South Australian Local Hero award in 2003, and Honorary Fellow of the University of South Australia. Mary-Anne Gale is a research fellow at the University of South Australia. She has written many articles and chapters for academic publications on Aboriginal education issues, and is the author of the book Dhangum Djorra'wuy Dhawu: A history of writing in Aboriginal languages. Her PhD, 'Poor Bugger Whitefella Got no Dreaming', focused on the representation of Aboriginal Dreaming narratives as published texts, looking in particular at the writings of the Ngarrindjeri man David Unaipon. Mary-Anne collaborated with the Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis O'Brien in writing his autobiography, And the Clock Struck Thirteen, also published by Wakefield Press, 2007.

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