Even before the first colonists had left London the first Protector of Aborigines for South Australia had been appointed, charged with the duty as 'ombudsman' to act on behalf of the Aborigines in their dealings with Government and colonists. Twelve men in all were to occupy the position until 1940, when it was absorbed into the new Aborigines Protection Board.
In an era before Government 'spin' and political correctness, these men wrote unexpectedly frank and revealing reports which give an excellent and rather surprising picture of the times. One might expect Government reports to be tedious reading, but these are lively and full of human interest. This book publishes extracts from these reports which show how the Protectors struggled to find solutions to the same problems that baffle even the most modern of today's policy-makers, solutions which were largely sympathetic to Aboriginal expectations and desires.
About the Authors Alistair Crooks is a retired geologist who has worked widely in remote parts of Australia. This field work led to contact with many remote area Aborigines, and a deep interest in Aboriginal culture and Aboriginal issues. On retirement in 2014 he decided to explore the South Australian library archives to research various Aboriginal topics where he joined forces with Joe Lane, who had been doing a similar thing.
In 1966 Joe Lane married Maria Rigney, a Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal dedicated to early childhood education for Aborigines, after which they worked jointly for Aboriginal advancement for 43 years. In the 1980s Joe and Maria moved into roles involving academic support for Aboriginal tertiary students, with Maria winning a Masters in Education and a senior lectureship in Indigenous student support until her death in 2008. From his retirement at that time Joe has been researching, typing and making available on the internet, a rich vein of primary source material from government and institutional sources.
The book is dedicated to the memory of Maria Lane, n e Rigney.
Автор: Rolls Mitchell Название: Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines ISBN: 0810859971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810859975 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 98560.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Waddell Gene Название: Aborigines ISBN: 154129615X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781541296152 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 28740.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This study compares the best documented tribes of Aborigines to reconstruct what they had in common. The Arunta and nearby tribes in the center of Australia provide the main basis for comparison through ethnographic studies made by Francis James Gillen, Baldwin Spencer, Carl Strehlow, and T. G. H. Strehlow. The Arunta are compared to tribes in the Northeast of Australia documented by Walter Edmund Roth and John Mathew; to tribes in the Southeast documented by David Collins, William Buckley and Alfred William Howitt; to tribes in southern Australia documented by John Edward Eyre; and to tribes in Western Australia documented by George Grey, Rosendo Salvado, and Daisy May Bates. Altogether, more than 60 volumes of primary sources were evaluated, extracted, and summarized. This information was divided into 20 principal topics and several hundred sub-topics to facilitate comparison. This study of Aborigines is part of a six-volume series entitled "Were We Like Them?" Additional volumes planned for publication in 2017 are about Bushmen, Fuegians, and Conclusions. The volumes on Bushmen and Fuegians have also been subdivided topically to correspond to the volumes on Aborigines. The six-volume set is intended to determine what Aborigines, Bushmen and Fuegians had in common before they separated 50,000 or more years ago and migrated to the ends of the earth, where they developed in isolation on three widely separated continents. A comparison of these three peoples enables a 50,000-year datum to be established that will indicate what Homo sapiens had in common before leaving Africa. Upon first seeing Fuegians, Charles Darwin asked, "could our progenitors be such as these?" After seeing Aborigines, he had additional reasons for thinking that all peoples had reached an equivalent stage of development before leaving Africa, where he eventually concluded that Mankind must have originated.
Автор: Bates Daisy Название: The Passing of the Aborigines ISBN: 1604448458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781604448450 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
