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In the 1600s, a Yolŋu girl was kidnapped from an Australian beach. Centuries later her story is a novel
When she was still a girl, one of Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs’s grandmothers was kidnapped from the coast of Arnhem Land by foreign traders. “My grandmother’s sister used to tell me that they went down and saw the footprints of her little sister in the …