'Me write myself' : the free aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 /

A book to challenge the traditional notion of the the aboriginal inhabitants of Wybalenna as hopeless, dispossessed and illiterate. Author Leonie Stevens draws together written records including items in the Flinders Island Chronicle, sermons, letters and petitions to give the community a voice they...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stevens, Leonie, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Clayton, Victoria, Australia : Monash University Publishing, 2017.
Temas:
Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Wybalenna (Tas.) > Correspondence.
Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Wybalenna (Tas.) > Social conditions.
Exiles > Australia > Tasmania.
Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Flinders Island (Tas.) > History.
Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Flinders Island (Tas.) > Social conditions.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Australie > Flinders, Île (Tasm.) > Histoire.
Australasian & Pacific history.
HISTORY > Australia & New Zealand.
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions
Social conditions
Exiles
Flinders Island (Tas.) > Social conditions.
Wybalenna (Tas.) > History.
Wybalenna (Tas.) > Social conditions.
Flinders, Île (Tasm.) > Conditions sociales.
Tasmania
Tasmania > Flinders Island
Personal correspondence
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 40,000 years to exile
  • Exiled to great land
  • The promise of Wybalenna
  • The battle for VDL souls
  • Empire, agency and a humble petition
  • Defeating Wybalenna.

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