A history of Footscray / by John Lack
- Bib ID:
- 1432954
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lack, John F
- Description:
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- North Melbourne : Hargreen Publishing in conjunction with the City of Footscray, 1991
- x, 454 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0949905550
- Invalid ISBN:
- 0949055550 (corrected)
- Summary:
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John batman described as a "canny handler of 'the Aborigines'" and the concluding of the 'treaty' for 600 000 acres of Aboriginal land - p. 7. Some discussion of Kulin language, placenames and territories - p. 15. Validity of Batman's treaty - p. 15. Map of 'tribal and clan boundaries' circa 1835 - p. [14]. travelling, hunting and ceremonial practices - p. 15-16. "Natice women getting Yam bourn roots ... 1835" - p. 16. Aboriginal and settler views on each other, trading - p. 16-17. Sexual use of Aboriginal women - p. 18. Murder of Charles Franks and subsuquent retaliation by settlers - p. 18-19. Decimation of Aboriginal peoples by disease - p. 19. Description of encounter with Derrimut on p. 19 and drawing of Derrimut on p. 21.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Maps on lining papers.
- Bibliography: p. [429]-438.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
- Subject:
- Footscray (Vic.) -- History
- Other authors/contributors:
- Footscray (Vic.). Council
- Copyright:
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