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'Book 1; details Aboriginal daily life, religion ceremony, location of clans and tribes at time of European exploration and first colonisation; Book 2; describes Aboriginal resistance to settlement and subsequent Black Line; Book 3; follows fate of bands who surrendered to Robinson and were imprisoned at Sarah Island; Book 4; describes Wybalenna and Oyster Bay settlements; Book 5; traces the history of Aboriginal children adopted by Europeans and Aboriginal leaders with Robinson; Book 6; traces history of survivors on mainland Tasmania and on Hunter and Furneaux groups in Bass Strait; Book 7; summarises government policy towards mutton-birders and residents of Cape Barren Island, describes the development of identity through Tasmanian Aboriginal Centres and reminiscences of childhood and mutton-birding on Cape Barren Island and racial discrimination when forced to move to Launceston.' (Source: TROVE)
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Each book includes:
Book 1. Invasion
Book 2. Resistance
Book 3. Dispossession
Book 4. From optimism to despair
Book 5. Adapting and resisting
Book 6. Survival
Book 7. Family and community.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- Child welfare
- Social behaviour
- Children
- Colonisation
- Community organisations
- Secondary education
- Early settlement of Australia
- Aboriginal contact history
- Government policies
- Aboriginal assimilation (Government policy)
- Aboriginal dispossession
- State & territory governments
- Children's literature
- Racial identity
- Racism
- Aboriginal Tasmanians
- Australian history
- Oyster Bay, Oyster Bay - Kirrawee area, Sutherland area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
- Bass Strait, Australian seas,
- Cape Barren Island, Bass Strait Islands, Tasmania,
- Wybalena, Flinders Island, Bass Strait Islands, Tasmania,
- Launceston, Northeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
- Tasmania,
