Hidden women of history: Mary Jane Cain, land rights activist, matriarch and community builder
- Written by Heidi Norman, Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Mary Jane Cain (centre) with granddaughters Miley Barker and Molly Chatfield and her great niece Josephine.The sun dancin' : people and place Coonabarabran (Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994)
For the communities of Coonabarabran in New South Wales and her grasslands Gomeroi people, Mary Jane Cain is a revered figure. Cain lived from 1844 to 1929. In...