Download Nowhere People by Henry Reynolds - mirror 1 --- mirror 2 --- mirror 3 -- --------------- br Synopsis: 'That's how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person... Mother, culture and stuck in a government institution because my mother was Aboriginal and my father was not. I ceased to be an Aboriginal but I would never be white. I was not something bad, shameful, called a half-caste.' - Hilda Jarman MuirbrIn the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, people of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry - half-castes - were commonly assumed to be morally and physically defective, unstable and degenerate.