- Bib ID:
- 8663463
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Williams, Lesley, author, writer of preface
- Description:
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- Murgon, Qld : The Ration Shed Museum, 2022
- ©2022
- 115 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 23 x 28 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780646851808 (hardback)
- Summary:
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"Between 1947 and 1962, young women and girls from the Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement in Queensland actively participated in Marching Girls competitions and displays locally, regionally and even nationally. As Aboriginal teams, they were a rare presence in the thriving sport of competitive marching. Cherbourg was established as a settlement, also called a mission or reserve, under the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897, which forcibly relocated thousands of Aboriginal people from all over the state. Inmates o Cherbourg survived despite the harsh and repressive settlement conditions. Activities like sport helped in the process of survival. Through an army of photographs, newspaper clippings, archival reports and the voices of the Marching Girls themselves. Marching with a Mission captures the proud contribution of these young Cherbourg women, their families and their supporters to their sport and to their community."--Back cover.
- Notes:
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- Colour illustrations on end papers.
- Reader Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this book contains the names and images of people who are deceased.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-115)
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
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- Osmond, Gary, author
- Phillips, Murray G, author
- Morgan, Sandra, author, writer of foreword
- Brown, Jeanette, author
- Simpson, Ada, author
- Costello, Bevan, author
- Langton, Robert, (artist), illustrator
- Cherbourg Ration Shed Museum Marching Girls Book Committee, author
- Ration Shed Museum, issuing body
- Also Titled:
- Cherbourg's marching girls
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2022
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