Rhonda Collard-Spratt is tired of being told Aboriginal people should "get over" the Stolen Generations.

"I say we can't," she said.

"I say 'do you ask Jewish people to get over Hitler? Do you ask America to get over 9/11? Do you ask Native Americans to get over Christopher Columbus?

"Do you ask yourself, white Australia, to get over Anzac?' So please don't ask us to get over our history and what we are still going through."

The 66-year-old was taken from her Indigenous family at the age of three and forced to live at the Churches of Christ Carnarvon Native Mission in Western Australia.

'It's not about blame. It's about sharing history'

Rhonda Collard-Spratt reunited with her mission sisters Shirley Balby (l) and Eva Crow (r). ( Supplied: Rhonda Collard-Spratt )

Her autobiography, Alice's Daughter: Lost Mission Child, was co-written with Jackie Ferro and published earlier this year.

Ms Collard-Spratt said it aimed to shed light on the pain still felt by members of the Stolen Generations.

"My hope is that each member of my mission family finds their voice too one day," she said.

"This story is not about blame. It's about sharing history that belongs to all of Australia."

Ms Collard-Spratt vividly recalls being removed from her family.

"It was like being dropped head first into a tin of white paint," she said.

"But the real me was still there — they couldn't wash away the 60,000 years of Dreaming and history that ties me forever to this sacred land."

Ms Collard-Spratt said it was a loveless upbringing.

"You know us mission people growing up, we never had nurture, they mainly wanted to save our souls," she said.

"They didn't care for the little Rhonda, or the little mission kid, we were not nurtured as children, we weren't hugged. No-one hugged me until I was an adult in my 20s."

Ms Collard-Spratt standing atop a wood pile. She says mission kids had to work hard. ( Supplied: Rhonda Collard-Spratt )

'No one heard my screams'

When she was 16 she was gang-raped while walking home from night school in Perth.

She said a carload of young white men stopped near the footpath behind her and offered her a lift.

She kept her head down and picked up her pace, but one of the men picked her up and threw her into the car.

Rhonda Collard-Spratt at 16 — a deeply unhappy time in her life. ( Supplied: Rhonda Collard-Spratt )

"The car turned down a dirt track, we bumped along further into a lonely, dark pine forest," she said.

"With a knife to my neck, they brutally raped me over and over again."

She said she was bitten, punched, slapped, kicked and had clumps of her hair torn from her scalp.

"No one heard my screams," she said.

The men then dumped her on the ground and sped off.

Ms Collard-Spratt fled to the foster home she was living in at the time, but did not tell her foster family. She has not spoken about it until now.

"That little 16-year-old Rhonda has carried this festering wound around with her for half a century," she said.

The attack compounded Ms Collard-Spratt's feelings of isolation and later that year she attempted suicide.

She has suffered chronic depression and post-traumatic stress disorder ever since.

Connection to culture vital for kids in care

Ms Collard-Spratt lived in three non-Indigenous foster homes after leaving the mission.

Some were better than others, but she never completely felt she belonged.

"At the dinner table there was nobody that looked like me, I felt like an alien," she said.

Ms Collard-Spratt believed it was essential to keep Indigenous children in care connected to their culture.

"I think our kids should go to the grandparents or to an Aboriginal home or, if that can't happen, that the foster homes must take our children to a cultural event or keep in touch with the Indigenous community," she said.

"Whether it's NAIDOC events or taking them to an Aboriginal medical centre.

"They must have that link back otherwise they'll be lost in their heart, in their spirit and in their soul.

"I've been there."