This essay can be used as a book report of My Place, by Sally Morgan, or as an example of written history vs individual memory

Sally Morgan grew up unaware that she was Aboriginal. When, as an adult, she discovered her Aboriginal heritage, she was consumed by the desire to understand its significance: What did it really mean to be Aboriginal? I'd never lived off the land and been a hunter and a gatherer. I'd never participated in corroborees or heard stories of the Dreamtime. I'd lived all my life in Suburbia and told everyone I was Indian. I hardly …

…'place' was to be cut off from her people,[23], living a lie. Sally's quest for ancestry eventually led to the family discovering their 'place' within a close network of Aboriginal relations and also in the intersection between Aboriginal culture and white society. By defining that place and accepting it with pride, Sally Morgan demonstrates to all Australians, black and white, that a positive outcome from the shameful history of black-white relations in Australia is possible.