Maps, b&w illustrationscoranderrk, kulin, barak, strzelecki, racial science, infanticide, genocide, assimilation, bon berry childrens asylum

Contents: God's lot : Moravians and missions "The most wretched and bleakest" : Moravian desire to work amongst the Australian Aborigines "Ein fauler Fleck" : Lake Boga, a putrid stain "I is done no more" : the first converts "Alles geht seinen schleppenden Gang" expansion, movement and sluggish progress "Every triumphant death" closure in a British colony.Maps, b&w illustrationsdjadja wurrung, dja dja wurrung, gunai, wati wati, wemba wemba, woi wurrung, wurundjeri, wotjobaluk, wergaia, wotjubalak, wotjibolik, wudjubalug, kulin nation, victorian history, moravian missions, colonisation, port phillip protectorate

The biography of a Victorian Koori woman who traced her family lineage back to the first contact between Indigenous Victorians and the founder of Melbourne. Daughter of Two Worlds by Dawn Lee begins with a tragic affair between Eliza Batman, the wife of Melbourne pioneer John Batman, and William Willoughby, Batman's right-hand man and a pillar of Melbourne's early Wesleyan church. The book also unearths the remarkable truth behind a family legend that Dawn Lee's great grandfather was a mysterious white English lord who met her great grandmother, Susannah, a full tribal Gunditjmara woman.maps, b&w photographsgunditjmara, dawn a lee, aboriginal victorians, victorian history

This edited collection of women's correspondence constitutes an important historical record of the experiences of Aboriginal women during a crucial period of social change. In particular the letters are valuable for the insight they offer into the impact on Aboriginal communities of government legislation and mission policies and the women's assertion of their entitlement to freedom and agency. Written by 81 different women, the letters cover such issues as children, family, religion, land, housing and material assistance.maps, b&w photographsvictorian aboriginal women, correspondence, government policy

Transcription of G. A. Robinson?s journals for the period of May to August 1841. Contains numerous references to Aboriginal social organisation, personal name lists and clan grouping. Reproductions of Robinson?s sketches. Edited with an introduction by Gary Presland.maps, b&w illustrationsgeorge augustus robinson

Extracts of manuscripts held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, and published with their permission.Maps, b&w illustrationsgeorge augustus robinson

With an introduction by Gary Presland. Extracts of manuscripts held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney and published with permission.Maps, b&w illustrationsgeorge augustus robinson

Biography of George Augustus Robinson, official protector of Aborgines in Tasmania and Port Phillip. A detailed study of Robinson?s involvement with the government and with Aboriginal people, with much information on his personal life and dealings.Maps, b&w illustrationsgeorge augustus robinson, victorian history

maps, b&w photographsgeorge augustus robinson, friendly mission

maps, b&w photographsmallee, wimmera

Transcription of correspondence between Sir George Gipps and C.J. La Trobe, giving a record of the early history of Victorian Aboriginal peoples in relation to white settlers.Maps, b&w illustrationssir george gipps, la trobe

The author is an Aboriginal woman, descendant of a family of long and continuous association with the south-east region of South Australia. This book attempts to overcome some of the difficulties in colonial relationships of the past to piece together the history of the Aboriginal people who survived in this area.maps, b&w photographssouth australian history

Story in Language and Englishmaps, illustrations, photographs, CDstorytelling in language, magati ke rak yederr, marri ngarr rak thawurr

A Bangerang story told by Irene Thomas.maps, photographs, illustrations, CDbangerang, murray river, shepparton, creation stories

These stories are written versions of legends handed down through the oral tradition of Aboriginal storytellers from the Riverina of New South Wales and Victoria, coastal regions and other parts of Australia.Colour photographs, illustrations, mapswongaibon, kamilaroi, kirrea, dharawal, ualarai, gandangara, darkinjung, dhurga, ngemba, bandjalang, wiradjuri, muruwari, riverina, lake eyre, murray river

"This edited volume represents the first book-length study of the history of research on Australian Aboriginal languages, and collects together 18 original papers on a wide variety of topics, spanning the period from first settlement to the present day. The introduction sets the scene for the book by presenting an overview of the history of histories of research on the languages of Australia , and identifying some of the major issues in Aboriginal linguistic historiography as well as directions for future investigations. Part 1 presents three detailed investigations of the history of work on particular languages and regions.The eight papers of Part 2 study and re-evaluate the contributions of particular individuals, most of who are somewhat marginal or have been marginalised in Aboriginal linguistics. Part 3 consists of six studies specific linguistic topics: sign language research, language revival, pidgins and creoles, fieldwork, Fr. Schmidt's work on personal pronouns, and the discovery that Australia was a multilingual continent. Overall, the volume presents two major challenges to Australianist orthodoxy. First, the papers challenge the typically anachronistic approaches to the history of Aboriginal linguistics, and reveal the need to examine previous research in the context of their times - and the advantages of doing so to contemporary understanding and language documentation. Second, the widespread presumption that the period 1910-1960 represented the 'dark ages' of Aboriginal linguistics, characterised by virtually no linguistic work, is refuted by a number of studies in the present volume."B&w photographs, maps

The book describes the way politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders if national movements and others try to influence our use of language. It is argued that language planning is never attempted of its own sake, rather it is carried out for the attainment of non-linguistic ends.Maps, tables, word listssociolinguistics, linguistics, linguistics in australia

A consolidated account of the Warrnambool language of the Western District of Victoria based on early sources. It is intended to serve as a convenient reference guide for the Aboriginal people of the Warrnambool area and for all researchers.Maps, tables, word listswarrnambool, bunganditj, buwandik, colac, dhudhuroa, djadjawurrung, eastern kulin, western kulin, kulin, gippsland language, woiwurrung, thagungwurrung, kurnkupanut, language revival, endangered languages

Includes Indigenous and European place names, gives their origins.maps, b&w photographs

Dictionary including Indigenous and European place names. Origins are given.maps, b&w photographsdaung wurrung, woiwurrung, dja dja wurrung, wathawurrung, wadawurrung, boon wurrung, jardwadjali, melbourne, yarra, baw baw, central goldfields, bass coast, greater geelong, south gippsland, surf coast, yarra ranges, golden plains, mornington peninsula, yarra ranges, ballarat, frankston, greater dandenong, queenscliffe, moorabool, boroondara

Dictionary including Indigenous and European place names. Origins are given.maps, b&w photographsgrampians, hindmarsh, horsham, ararat, gannawarra, mildura, swan hill, glenelg, djabwurrung, djadjawurrung, jardwadjali, dadidadi, wergaia, wembawemba, barababaraba, wadi wadi, wathawurrung, ladji ladji

Dictionary including Indigenous and European place names. Origins are given.maps, b&w photographsdhauwurd wurrung, giraiwurrung, djargurd wurrung, gadubanud, buandig, gulidjan, moyne, corangamite, colac-otway, wimmera, glenelg, warrnambool

Various authors, includes technical linguistic sketch grammars of Djapu (Yolngu), Yukulta, Uradhi, and Nyawaygi.Maps, diagrams, word listsdjapu, yolngu, yukulta, uradhi, nyawaygi

Maps, b&w illustrationsgumbaynggir, janggadi, birrbay, yugumbal, anaiwan, burrgadi

maps, b&w photographskaska, language revitalisation, language revival