Author: Jennifer Clark
Publisher: Pearson Deutschland GmbH
ISBN: 9780980296570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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In a provocative reappraisal of the 1960s, Aborigines & Activism recontextualises the history of Aboriginal activism within wider international movements. Concurrent to anti-war protests, women's movements, burgeoning civil rights activism in the United States and the struggles of South Africa's anti-apartheid freedom righters, dramatic political changes took place in 'assimilated' Australia that challenged its status quo. From the early days of grassroots resistance through to Charles Perkins' 1965 Freedom Ride, the 1967 Referendum, Canberra's Tent Embassy and beyond, this is the story of the Great Southern Land's racial awakening - a time when Aborigines and their white supporters achieved paradigmatic shifts in the search for equality, justice and human dignity that still has powerful implications for 21st century Australia. This is an engaging study of the stories of racial awakening in Australia that marked the coming of the wind of change. Through rigorous research, the author shows how supporters of Indigenous Australians and their struggles for equality pushed Australia into the 60s literally and figuratively. The book also puts the Australian experience of the 60s into an international perspective, portrayed as unique but not in isolation.
Author: Anna Haebich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780855642808
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 413
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Deterioration of economic conditions from independence to poverty; government policy, protection, assimilation; Aborigines Act 1905; employment, training, permits; education, exclusion; A.O. Neville; native settlements; childrens homes; institutional life; identity; reserves, town camps; missionaries; Depression, poverty; protest, resistance; Moseley Royal Commission; Native Administration Act 1936; discrimination; racism; Carrolup, Moore River, Gnowangerup, Beverley, Narrogin, Kellerberrin, Katanning, Brookton.
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Early contacts, quotes Dampier, Preston, Dale, Bussel; Brief notes on New Norcia Mission; Method of discovering whereabouts of murderer (West Kimberley); Betrothal (Perth area) Aboriginal equipment, foods; Songs with English translation & music transcript; General beliefs, burial rites Perth, Vasse R., King Georges Sound.
Author: Lois Tilbrook
Publisher: Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press
ISBN: 9780855641832
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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History of Aborigines in the region; white contact; Swan River Colony; work; Aboriginal-police relations; marriage; Native Institution at Mt. Eliza, New Norcia Mission; Welshpool Reserve; right to drink alcohol; Nyungar family trees.
Author: Kim Scott
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 9781863683234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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A young school teacher is posted to a remote Aboriginal community, and through his experiences, his encounter with the local people, his discovery of the history of the community, his own history and his Aboriginality are revealed. Like many others in the novel, Billy is struggling to find a meaningful cultural identity and to create a better future from the wreckage of the recent history of Aboriginal people. What he finds at Karnama is a disintegrating community, characterised by government handouts, alcoholism, wife-beating, petrol-sniffing and an indifference to traditional beliefs and practices. It is a depressingly familiar litany of social problems which confirms the smug racial stereotypes of the white community to which Billy initially belongs. True Country offers no clear-cut solution to the realities of powerlessness. What it leaves us with is Billy's vision of the 'true country' which he shares with the unnamed Aboriginal narrator in the final pages of the novel.
Author: James Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: W J Peaseley
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1921696168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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‘Peasley's description of the events … is informative, compassionate, exciting and at times deeply moving.' —Don Grant, Australian Book Review ‘The intriguing story of [the rescue of an elderly couple believed to be the last Australian nomads] and how they survived alone for the previous 30 years or so in the unrelenting western Gibson Desert region of WA, is fascinating reading.' — Chris Walters, The West Australian ‘This is a most remarkable book about the recovery during the 1977 drought of an ailing Aboriginal nomadic couple, living in desert regions of Western Australia.' — The National Times Warri and Yatungka were believed to be the last of the Mandildjara tribe of desert nomads to live permanently in the traditional way. Their deaths in the late 1970s marked the end of a tribal lifestyle that stretched back more than 30,000 years. The Last of the Nomads tells of an extraordinary journey in search of Warri and Yatungka.
Author: Richard Broome
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1760872628
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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The highly regarded history of Australia's First Nations people since colonisation, fully updated for this fifth edition. 'The vast sweeping story of Aboriginal Australia from 1788 is told in Richard Broome's typical lucid and imaginative style. This is an important work of great scholarship, passion and imagination.' - Professor Lynette Russell, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society. Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the early colonial struggle for power. Surveying over two centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, he shows how white settlers steadily supplanted the original inhabitants, from the shining coasts to inland deserts, by sheer force of numbers, disease, technology and violence. He also tells the story of Aboriginal survival through resistance and accommodation, and traces the continuing Aboriginal struggle to move from the margins of a settler society to a more central place in modern Australia. Broome's Aboriginal Australians has long been regarded as the most authoritative account of black-white relations in Australia. This fifth edition continues the story, covering the impact of the Northern Territory Intervention, the mining boom in remote Australia, the Uluru Statement, the resurgence of interest in traditional Aboriginal knowledge and culture, and the new generation of Aboriginal leaders. 'Richard Broome's historical analysis breaks the back of every theoretical argument about colonialism and establishes a clear pathway to understanding the present situation.' Sharon Meagher, Aboriginal Education Development Officer, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide
Author: Western Australia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Author: Anna Haebich
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1863683054
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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There was no single Stolen Generation, there were many and Broken Circles is their story. This major work reveals the dark heart of this history. It shows that, from the earliest times of European colonisation, Aboriginal Australians experienced the trauma of loss and separation, as their children were abducted, enslaved, institutionalised and culturally remodelled.
