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191p.; vocab. list; The author arrived in Victoria at the age of 10 years in 1839. His family gave their name to the Victorian town. He and his brother settled at 'Tyntynder' outside Swan Hill in 1845. His brother was killed by Aborigines. Brought into daily contact with the Aborigines of the area he gradually acquired their language and was permitted to learn much denied to other whites. By 1883 he had amassed a large amount of information which he put into the form of a Paper, read before the Royal Society of New South Wales. This paper may be regarded as the skeleton of the volume now publishjed. Victoria -- RiverinaAboriginals, Victoria -Swan Hill region. Lifestyle; customs and beliefs. Tyntynder(Vic)Aboriginals - Murray River tribes; language; magic; religion and practices.aboriginal australians -- victoria. | aboriginal australians -- murray river valley (n.s.w.-s.a.)

19-74 p. ; 23 cm.aborigines-lower murray - boora boora, baraba baraba, watty watty, waiky waiky, latchy latchy, darty darty, yairy yairy, law-games, punishment, dogs, spirituality, tribal, death, sickness, food, canoes, cordage, hunting, see also: watti watti; dadi dadi; latchi latchi;

253 p. : ill. ; list of plates; index; bibliography; 24 cm.Selections from official published sources concerning government policy towards Aborigines; early explorers accounts; newspaper articles and letters illustrating racial attitudes to Aborigines.aborigines. race relations. australia, 1697-1973. readings from contemporary sources | aboriginal australians -- government relations. | australia -- history -- sources. | settlement and contacts - explorers | government policy - assimilation | government policy - initial period and protectionism | government policy - integration | race relations - racism - stereotyping

33 P.Gives the Uniting Church's position on many questions posed by other rces on Aboriginals. «xplains clearly some of the misconceptions on rights and reconciliation.uniting church in australia. | aboriginal australians -- religion. | aboriginal australians -- civil rights.

48 p. : ill., port. ; 22 cm.The ceremonial grounds have been a mystery to many but from information collected by explorers and early pioneers there is little doubt of their use.... Fish traps somewhat similar to those at Brewarrina have been described by other writers... Many of the stone arrangements in New South Wales were found in the Barkingi territory ...aboriginal australians -- new south wales -- darling river region -- rites and ceremonies. | mounds -- new south wales -- darling river region.

50 p. : ill., col. map, ports. ; 30 cm.Articles by a variety of well-known people on the subject of a treaty.1. aborigines, aust. -- govt. relations. 2. aborigines, aust. -- treaties. 3. aborigines, aust. -- legal status, laws, etc. i. institute of public affairs (australia). ii. policy issues

63 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.right to education -- australia. | discrimination in education -- australia. | aboriginal australians -- treatment. | civil rights -- australia.

64 p. : ill ; facsims, ports. ; 21 cm.Includes a brief history of the Board for the Protection of Aborigines (and its forerunners) and extracts from the papers of M. Sievewright, C.W. Sievewright (on a murder case), W. Thomas (on stone houses), W.A.P. Dana (on native police), E.S. Parker; (biography of Merringoondeet), P. Sohier (on phrenology); Coranderrk revolt; Lake Tyers; Ramahyuckphrenology. | public records -- victoria. | psychology - cognition - intelligence. | settlement and contacts - colonisation - 1788-1850. | settlement and contacts - colonisation - 1851- crime - against persons. | education. | government policy - initial period and protectionism - 1788-1850. | government policy - initial period and protectionism - 1851-1900. | government policy - state and territory - victoria. | settlement and contacts - government settlements, reserves. | law enforcement - police - native police.

8 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.indigenous health-aids prevention

iii-vi; pp71; This bibliography covers Aboriginal customary law, its interaction with the Australian legal system and the latter's relevance to the Aborigines. It has been assembled in three sections: Books and Articles; Statem Federal and Colonial Legislation; and Bibliographies and other aids.australia. law. implications for australian aborigines. bibliographies. | aboriginal australians -- legal status, laws, etc. -- bibliography. | law -- australia -- bibliography.

p.33; illus; 20 cm.another phamplet issued by the Government to promote assimilation.assimilation - australian aborigines, government policy - assimilation

Part 1 pp 86-92; footnotes; Part 2 pp188 - 191; A good outline of the clan numbers practices, diseases and white attitudes although spiked with the white attitudes to indigenous races of the time.taungurung tribe - contact history., aboriginals goulburn district - treatment of illnesses; intelligence; massacre; child removal proposal; education; christianity., clan groups goulburn protectorate - taungurung - neenbullocks; budderbullocks; orilims; ya

pp.26; illus.; figs.; This book examines three of the environmental zones of south-easternAustralia in the period immediately before white invasion. aboriginal australians -- victoria -- antiquities. | aboriginal australians -- victoria -- hunting. | aboriginal australians -- victoria -- food. | human ecology -- victoria.

x, 60 pages ; 18 cm.language and communication - aboriginals, victoria., leichhardt, ludwig (letter), language-aboriginals, australian

xii, 60 pages ; 18 cm.language-aboriginals, australian - victoria., aboriginals-victoria-social life and customs

xiii, 325 p. : figs., map. index; Barabool dialect list; names of the tribe, about 1841-43; ; 22 cThe letters record events which will recall to many persons still living old Vctorian memories, and will have a great value for the future historian of Victoria, as narrating the experiences of actual movers in the early scenes of our colonization, while they will also possess interest as incidental contributions to the biographies of the men who half a century ago beagan to encounter the hardships and perils which beset the pioneer in every part of this continent. These papers also contain interesting contributions to our knowldge of the aborigines-their languages, customs , and conflicts with the white men; and although some of the incdents narrated have found their way into print before, they are now for the first time given in their entirety to the public. frontier and pioneer life -- victoria. | victoria -- history -- 1834-1900 -- sources.

xiv, 455 p., 31 p. of plates : map ; 26 cm.Brief notes on the contributors and incidents have been included in this edition although the above-mentioned items have been left out, some marginal notes made by Governor La Trobe have been dealt with in the footnotes. "From the original edition edited for the Trustees of the Public Library by Thomas Francis Bride'. Previously published: Melbourne : Heinemann, 1969. Originally published: Melbourne : Government Printer for the Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria, 1898.pioneering, 1836-1854. victoria. correspondence, diaries, etc. | victoria. description & travel, 1836-1854. correspondence, diaries, etc. | frontier and pioneer life -- victoria. | victoria -- history -- 1834-1900 -- sources. | victoria -- description and travel -- 1851-1900.

xvii, 173 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.Turning the Tide is about political struggle in the past three decades of Aboriginal affairs in Australia. Faith Bandler's background has given her the right to speak out loudly and clearly against racial discrimination. In 1956 she co-founded the Aboriginal - Australian Fellowship and later became a key figure in the founding of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islandersbandler, faith. | federal council for the advancement of aborigines and torres strait islanders -- history. | federal council for the advancement of aborigines and torres strait islanders -- history. | aboriginal australians -- social conditions. | race discrimination -- australia. | australia -- history -- 20th century. | australia -- race relations.

pp.67; illus.; 22 cm.Data (1935) from Mount Margaret Mission on teaching and welfare of its Aboriginal people.mount margaret mission w. a., aboriginals, australian-education, intelligence-aboriginal-australians

105-145P.; plates; refs. figs.Some of the points raised seem rather dated, but an interesting set of theories historically.tasmanians - racial origins., australian aboriginals - origins., migration theories - tasmanians., bass strait - geology.

12 P. photographs; map; lists.Contains lists of service men and women of Aboriginl descent with connections to South West Victoria. A valuable resource to Victorian Aboriginal service men and women.armed services - aboriginal servicemen and women - south west victoria

137 p. : maps ; refs.; 22 cm.Using materiqal largely ignored by historians, this book traces the dispossession of the Aboriginal people and records the strategic and tactical objectives of tribal defence as well as the aims and methods of the British invaders.race relations. australia, 1788-ca.1900. | aboriginal australians -- government relations. | aboriginal australians -- history. | australia -- history -- 1788-1900. | race discrimination -- australia -- history. | race relations - violent - massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - to 1900

vii-xxii; 240 P.; figs.; maps; notes; bib.; index; tables; 23 cm.This book is designed to provide all the information required for informed consideration of the potential role of Aborigines in the defence of Australia, for clarification and resolution of the disparate and complex issues involved and for the design of policy initiatives to realise the potential of Aborigines in Australia's defence planning and operations.world war, 1939-1945 -- participation, aboriginal australian. | world war, 1939-1945 -- participation, torres strait islander. | aboriginal australian soldiers. | australia -- armed forces -- minorities -- history.

152 p. : ill., maps. ; 25 cm.The book seeks to provide a readable account of traditional Aboriginal society in Australia, and of what happened to that society after the European invasion began in 1788.aboriginal australians -- history. | aboriginal australians -- social life and customs.

64 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.... The incised trees at bora grounds have been seen when in use by keen observers... Besides recording the photographs taken in February, 1942, and diagrams of the Banaway Bora Ground, I have added numerous references and reports by explorers, early settlers and others who actually saw these bora grounds in use.The territory of the great Kamilaroi Nation was the centre of the teleteglyphs or incised trees at ceremonial grounds in the same way as the Wiradjuri Nation was for taphoglyphs or monumental trees and the Barkinji Nation for cylcons...arts -- visual arts - general -- carved and painted trees -- prehistory, early culture contact and history -- activity and resource sites., other: bora ground

xv, 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.By the 1830's the squatters were poised to extend theri runs over eastern Australia and so dispossess untold thousands of Aboriginal families of their land. Mitchell witnessed at first hand some of the worst years of a monstrous and incomprehensible disaster. More than that, his work directly assisted in this destruction.mitchell, thomas, sir, 1792-1855 -- relations with aborigines, australian -- new south wales. | mitchell, thomas, sir, 1792-1855 -- journeys -- new south wales. | aboriginal australians -- new south wales -- first contact with europeans. | aboriginal australians -- first contact with europeans.