Gawler, Colonel Light's country town : a history of Gawler and its region - The Hills, the Plains and the Barossa Valley / by Derek Whitelock
- Bib ID:
- 1304038
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Whitelock, Derek, 1934-
- Description:
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- Gawler, S. Aust. : Corporation of the Town of Gawler, 1989
- xii, 318 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0731678222
- Summary:
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Drawwing of Warrette on page 7 "one of the last of the fullblood kaurna people". Chapter 2: The Kaurna people and their environment. Observation on the lack of historical mentions of the Kaurna people by the diarists or chroniclers of the European settlement, notes on the extent of the Kaurna lands and their relationship with the land, social organisation, rituals and ceremonies, food, clothing and shelter and the eventual decline in the face of cultural confrontation and the drifting of Kaurna people into Adelaide reserves.
- Notes:
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- Bibliography of published sources : p. 290.
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Gawler (S.A.). Corporation
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1989
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