Aboriginal elders' voices : stories of the "Tide of history" : Victorian indigenous elders' life stories & oral histories / The Aboriginal Community Elders Service & Kate Harvey
- Bib ID:
- 1040493
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Aboriginal Community Elders Service
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Aboriginal Community Elders Service ; Language Australia, 2003
- vi, 263 p. : maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0731126785
- 0731126785
- Summary:
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"Aboriginal Elders' Voices: Stories of the 'Tide of History'" is a collection of Victorian Indigenous Elders' life stories and oral histories. The Elders share their stories in an attempt to ensure that both sides of Australia's history are finally heard. These stories tell of cultural resistance on missions, of defying assimilation laws, of forever moving around to save children from the welfare. They document the development of both fringe and urban communities and work in the Aboriginal rights movement. They clarify the ways in which these experiences have affected the individual authors along with the indigenous population in general. Also included in the book is a brief history and analysis of the legislation, policies, attitudes and strategies that have affected the lives of the authors and their families since colonisation. This aspect provides an historical perspective, encouraging a deeper understanding of the Elders' stories. Reconciliation can only eventuate with an understanding gained from hearing and including the voices of Indigenous Australians. The time has come to listen...
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure
- Gunditjmara / Gurndidy / Dhaurwurd-Wurrung people (S20) (Vic SJ54-11)
- Law - Administrative law - Victoria
- Social organisation - Elders
- Stories and motifs - Devils, monsters, evil spirits, hairy men, bunyips
- Yorta Yorta / Yota Yota people (D2) (NSW SI55-13)
- History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Politics and Government - Political action - Civil rights
- Indigenous knowledge
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- Government policy - State and territory - Victoria
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Race relations - Racial discrimination
- Daily life
- Politics and Government - Political action - Anti racism
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Gathering - Bush tucker
- Race relations - Representation - Literature
- Australia -- Race relations
- Healesville / Coranderrk (E Vic Yarra Valley SJ55-06)
- Bung Yarnda / Lake Tyers (E Vic Gippsland SJ55-07)
- Cummeragunja (SW NSW SJ55-01)
- Tae Rak / Lake Condah (W Vic SJ54-11)
- Ebenezer / Lake Hindmarsh (NW Vic SJ54-03)
- Mildura (NW Vic SI54-11)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2003
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