Living with the land : Aborigines in Tasmania / [author, Heather Felton]
- Bib ID:
- 7579751
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Felton, Heather, author
- Description:
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- [Hobart], Tasmania : Department of Education and The Arts, 1989-1991
- 7 volumes (52, 44, 51, 52, 72, 60, 83 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 30 x 21 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0724613935
- 0724618120
- 0724618201
- 0724619003
- Series:
- Aborigines in Tasmania.
- Summary:
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For children. History of Tasmanian Aborigines from pre-contact to contemporary times for upper primary and secondary students; each book contains detailed biographies; Book 1; details Aboriginal daily life, religion ceremony, location of clans and tribes at time of European exploration and first colonisation; Book 2; describes Aboriginal resistance to settlement and subsequent Black Line; Book 3; follows fate of bands who surrendered to Robinson and were imprisoned at Sarah Island; Book 4; describes Wybalenna and Oyster Bay settlements; Book 5; traces the history of Aboriginal children adopted by Europeans and Aboriginal leaders with Robinson; Book 6; traces history of survivors on mainland Tasmania and on Hunter and Furneaux groups in Bass Strait; Book 7; summarises government policy towards mutton-birders and residents of Cape Barren Island, describes the development of identity through Tasmanian Aboriginal Centres and reminiscences of childhood and mutton-birding on Cape Barren Island and racial discrimination when forced to move to Launceston.
- Full contents:
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- Contents: Book 1. Invasion
- Book 2. Resistance
- Book 3. Dispossession
- Book 4. From optimism to despair
- Book 5. Adapting and resisting
- Book 6. Survival
- Book 7. Family and community.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Subject:
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- Robinson, George Augustus, 1791-1866
- Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History
- Child welfare - Adoption and fostering
- Social behaviour - Socialisation - Child rearing
- Children
- Colonisation
- Community organisations - Cultural
- Education - Secondary - Curriculum
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Family
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1901-1925
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Government policy - Integration
- Government policy - State and territory - Tasmania
- Literature and stories - Juvenile
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Paredarerne / Oyster Bay people (Tas SK55-06)
- Cape Barren Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)
- Tasmania -- History
- Bass Strait (SJ55, SK55)
- Wybalenna (Flinders Island Tas SK55-02)
- Launceston (NE Tas SK55-04)
- Oyster Bay (E Tas SK55-06)
- Truwana / Cape Barren Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Aborigines in Tasmania
- Available From:
- 09746b
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1991
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