Jack of Cape Grim : a Victorian adventure / Jan Roberts
- Bib ID:
- 305932
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Roberts, J. P. (Janine P.)
- Description:
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- Richmond, Vic. : Greenhouse, 1986
- 123 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 086436007X
- Summary:
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Detailed account of organised and armed attacks on settlers in the Western Port District by five Tasmanian Aborigines brought to Victoria by G.A. Robinson - Truganini, Matilda (Pyterrunner), Fanny (Planobeena), Jack (Tunnerminnerwait/Napoleon) and Robert Smallboy (Peevay); contact history and Aboriginal resistance in Tasmania and Victoria; work of Chief Protector and Assistant Protectors of Aborigines; capture, trial and execution of Aboriginal guerrillas.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [108]-117.
- Subject:
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- Truganini, approximately 1812-1876
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Treatment
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Victoria -- Treatment
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Government relations
- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Government relations
- Literature and stories - Non indigenous - Fiction
- Settlement and contacts
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Victoria -- History -- 1834-1851
- Western Port (Vic SJ55-09)
- Melbourne (Vic SJ55-05)
- Tasmania (Tas)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1986
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