Joan Martin (Yaarna) stanner award and women and children’s oppression

and women and children’s oppression

and artefacts that are part of ROM

Case Citations

Chapter 2: Recalibrating the visual field- Indigenous curators and contemporary art

Chapter 6 Hearsay or Traditional Evidence

Joan Martin (Yaarna) stanner award and women and children’s oppressionJoan Martin was born in the country town of Morawa, Western Australia, in 1941. She was a proud Widi woman whose traditional territory extended from Geraldton eastwards into the salt lake area. Joan led an exciting and adventurous life, from life in the bush to school in Perth, and back again. But it was a life with great challenges, including efforts to avoid Native Welfare, so as not to be shipped off to a mission, and her later very public battle