To achieve our country : Australia and the Aborigines / Lorna Lippmann
- Bib ID:
- 1038146
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lippmann, Lorna
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Cheshire, 1970
- 88 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0701512474
- Summary:
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European racial attitudes to Aborigine & Chinese, official attitudes of assimilation policy, brief survey of origin theories, physical characteristics, adaptation to environment, weapons, art forms, food collection & hunting methods, cooking, notes; Djonggandji specialization in canoe making, gift exchange, language, tribal territory, totemism, initiation, land ownership concept, social behaviour, government & law; early race relations from 1606 (Duyfken), attitudes of settlers, protection, reserves, assimilation, post 1945 Port Hedland strikes, integration; Aborigines today, legal status, wages & employment, housing, education, health, land rights; comparisons with New Zealand & U.S.A., Aboriginal attitudes.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references.
- Text in English and Yangathimri.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
- Attitudes - Indigenous attitudes
- Religion - Totemism
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Weapons
- Settlement and contacts - Chinese
- Land rights - Ownership
- Human biology - Physiological adaptation
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Tjungundji people (Y14) (Qld SD54-03)
- Employment - Conditions - Wages
- Hunting
- Health status - Public health
- Social behaviour
- Housing
- Yangathimri language Y14
- Australia -- Race relations
- Port Hedland (WA East Pilbara SF50-04)
- New Zealand (NZ)
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
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- Publication date:
- 1970
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