Belinda Dann
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Belinda Dann (4 July 1900 – 9 October 2007) was an Indigenous Australian born as Quinlyn Wardagoo to an Irish cattle station manager and a Nyikina mother in the Lunlungai community in Derby, Western Australia.[1] At the age of 6, 7,[2] or 8[3] she was taken away and sent to Beagle Bay Mission with other members of the stolen generation. Her name was changed to Belinda Boyd[1] to integrate with White society.
As a teenager she married Matthias Dann,[1][4] and they helped build Sacred Heart Church at Beagle Bay.[3] In 1927 they moved to Port Hedland,[5] where they initially had to obey a 5 pm curfew for indigenous people as well as request a permit if they had wanted to drink at the pub.[6] The couple raised six children and established St Cecilia's College after the public school was abandoned during World War II.[3][4] Their daughter Maggie Galvin said her parents instilled in her a passion for education.[6]
Dann remembered her Aboriginal name, and one of her grandsons mentioned it to an Aboriginal girl who had heard of her family.[4] In May 2007 she met her 97-year-old brother, Patty Jungine, for the first time. Jungine died a month later in June 2007, and Dann died four months afterward in Port Hedland at age 107.[1]
Dann's funeral in Port Hedland attracted over 200 mourners on Saturday 27 October 2007, and was followed two weeks later by a traditional ceremony at Lunlungaim, where a lock of her hair was buried alongside her mother's grave.[7]
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External links
- Pilbara woman dies at 107
- Stolen generation survivor dies – Aboriginal/Australia
- Port Hedland celebrates Belinda Dann 107th birthday
- Jarlmadangah community website
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