Cootamundra : the Aboriginal girls home / Peter Rimas Kabaila
- Bib ID:
- 8420371
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kabaila, Peter Rimas, 1955-, author
- Description:
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- [Canberra] : [Peter Rimas Kabaila], ©1994
- ©1994
- 100 leaves : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 30 x 43 cm
- Summary:
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Institutionalisation of Aboriginal children at Cootamundra Girls Home, and its affects on their lives; history of Cootamundra Girls Home; removal of children from families; interviews with Aboriginal women and former staff of Cootamundra; daily life; punishments; girls trained to be domestic servants, and their experiences; Aboriginal protection and welfare policies in New South Wales.
- Full contents:
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- The origins of the girls home
- Taken to the home
- Daily life
- The changing layout
- Punishment
- Sent into domestic service
- After-effects
- Different perspectives
- Appendix 1 : Research methods used
- Appendix 2: Notes on sources
- Appendix 3: Illustration sources
- Appendix 4 : People interviewed.
- Notes:
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- "This study has been produced by voluntary work with funding and direction from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies (AIATSIS). " -- Acknowledgement.
- Includes appendixes.
- Bibliography : page 92.
- Subject:
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- Cootamundra Home for Orphaned and Neglected Children
- Cootamundra Girls' Home (N.S.W.)
- Bimbadeen College
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Cootamundra -- History
- Historic sites -- New South Wales -- Cootamundra
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Cootamundra Region -- History
- Wiradjuri (Australian people) -- History
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care -- New South Wales
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- New South Wales
- Child welfare - Neglect
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation
- Social behaviour - Socialisation - Child rearing
- Child welfare - Children's homes
- Occupations - Domestic servants
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism
- Government policy - State and territory - New South Wales
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Cootamundra (SW NSW SI55-11)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1994
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