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"Long before the word 'genocide' was coined, the British invasion of Australia had annihilated approximately nine-tenths of the continent's original population of Aborigines. The creation of white Australia depended upon the legal fiction of 'terra nullius'--no man's land--the c…
While Patrick Dodson's bearded image is well known, the remarkable history of this outstanding Aboriginal leader has never before been known. In Paddy's Road, Kevin Keeffe brings us stories of Dodson's life woven from interviews, government archives and family stories.
Tells the story of Cooper and the Australian Aborigines's League, and their campaign for Aboriginal people's rights. Through petitions to government, letters to other campaigners and organisations, Thinking Black reveals their passionate struggle against dispossession and displa…
"Most non-Indigenous Australians know of Charles Perkins. Many are familiar with a few other Aboriginal leaders. Yet few have heard of William Cooper, one of the most important Aboriginal leaders in Australia's history." "Thinking Black tells the story of Cooper and the Australi…
William Cooper is one of the most important Aboriginal leaders in Australia's history. This book tells the story of Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League and their campaign for Aboriginal people's rights.
"Claire Henty-Gebert was probably born in the mid-1920s near Frew River station, about 400 km northeast of Alice Springs, in Kaytetye and Alyawarra country. She was the child of white settler Harry Henty, and Ruby Ngwarie, an Alyawarra woman." "Separated from her mother at three…
Born in the late 1930s, the daughter of a white settler and an Alyawarra woman, Claire was four years old when she was taken to the Bungalow mission in Alice Springs. Much of her young life was spent on the newly formed Croker Island mission, and she recalls happy days in the ca…
Reviews the general structure of Aboriginal policy in each country followed by an examination of child welfare policy in each. Concludes with a comparison of similarities and differences. Includes tables of child welfare and related statistics.
The aboriginal people of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand became minorities in their own countries in the nineteenth century. The expanding British Empire had its own vision for the future of these peoples, which was expressed in 1837 by the Select Committee on Aborigines of t…