First Australians

Author : Rachel Perkins
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
ISBN 13 : 0522859542
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Australians written by Rachel Perkins and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Australians is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was overrun by the world's greatest empire. Seven of Australia's leading historians reveal the true stories of individuals—both black and white—caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period of history. Their story begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1992 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia. By illuminating a handful of extraordinary lives spanning two centuries, First Australians reveals, through their eyes, the events that shaped a new nation. Note: This is the unillustrated version ofFirst Australians.

Author : Ronald Murray Berndt
Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN 13 : 0855751843
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of the First Australians written by Ronald Murray Berndt and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes new foreword, added references; social organisation, economic life, relationship with land, life cycle, religious beliefs, law and order, art death, politics, current developments in Aboriginal studies, affairs.

Author : Richard Broome
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760872628
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aboriginal Australians written by Richard Broome and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast sweeping story of Aboriginal Australia from 1788 is told in Richard Broome's typical lucid and imaginative style. This is an important work of great scholarship, passion and imagination.' - Professor Lynette Russell, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society. Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the early colonial struggle for power. Surveying over two centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, he shows how white settlers steadily supplanted the original inhabitants, from the shining coasts to inland deserts, by sheer force of numbers, disease, technology and violence. He also tells the story of Aboriginal survival through resistance and accommodation, and traces the continuing Aboriginal struggle to move from the margins of a settler society to a more central place in modern Australia. Broome's Aboriginal Australians has long been regarded as the most authoritative account of black-white relations in Australia. This fifth edition continues the story, covering the impact of the Northern Territory Intervention, the mining boom in remote Australia, the Uluru Statement, the resurgence of interest in traditional Aboriginal knowledge and culture, and the new generation of Aboriginal leaders. 'Richard Broome's historical analysis breaks the back of every theoretical argument about colonialism and establishes a clear pathway to understanding the present situation.' - Sharon Meagher, Aboriginal Education Development Officer, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide

Author : Scott Cane
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 174343572X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Footprints written by Scott Cane and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Footprints tells the extraordinary story of the Aboriginal people of Australia. How they made their way out of Africa 60,000 years ago, and how they survived across this vast continent, from the harsh deserts of the inland to the glaciers of southern Tasmania. With photos from the ABC TV series of the same name. Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic mammals roamed the plains and enormous crocodiles, giant snakes and goannas nestled in the estuaries and savannahs. First Footprints tells the epic story of Australia's Aboriginal people. It is a story of ancient life on the driest continent on earth through the greatest environmental changes experienced in human history: ice ages, extreme drought and inundating seas. It is chronicled through astonishing archaeological discoveries, ancient oral histories and the largest and oldest art galleries on earth. Australia's first inhabitants were the first people to believe in an afterlife, cremate their dead, engrave representations of the human face, and depict human sound and emotion. They created new technologies, designed ornamentation, engaged in trade, and crafted the earliest documents of war. Ultimately, they developed a sustainable society based on shared religious tradition and far-reaching social networks across the length and breadth of Australia.

Author : Marcia Langton
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781459646346
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Australians written by Marcia Langton and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was overrun by the world's greatest empire. Seven of Australia's leading historians reveal the true stories of individuals - both black and white - caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period of history. Their story begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1993 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia.

Author : Marnie O’Bryan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811660093
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boarding and Australia's First Peoples written by Marnie O’Bryan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes us inside the complex lived experience of being a First Nations student in predominantly non-Indigenous schools in Australia. Built around the first-hand narratives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alumni from across the nation, scholarly analysis is layered with personal accounts and reflections. The result is a wide ranging and longitudinal exploration of the enduring impact of years spent boarding which challenges narrow and exclusively empirical measures currently used to define ‘success’ in education. Used as instruments of repression and assimilation, boarding, or residential, schools have played a long and contentious role throughout the settler-colonial world. In Canada and North America, the full scale of human tragedy associated with residential schools is still being exposed. By contrast, in contemporary Australia, boarding schools are characterised as beacons of opportunity and hope; places of empowerment and, in the best, of cultural restitution. In this work, young people interviewed over a span of seven years reflect, in real time, on the intended and unintended consequences boarding has had in their own lives. They relate expected and dramatically unexpected outcomes. They speak to the long-term benefits of education, and to the intergenerational reach of education policy. This book assists practitioners and policy makers to critically review the structures, policies, and cultural assumptions embedded in the institutions in which they work, to the benefit of First Nations students and their families. It encourages new and collaborative approaches Indigenous education programs.

Author : Josephine Flood
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741159628
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Original Australians written by Josephine Flood and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts Aboriginal history, from earliest prehistory to today, and details their survival through the millennia, to the stolen children issue.

Author : Bruce Pascoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922142436
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Emu written by Bruce Pascoe and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.

Author : Karin Cox
Publisher : Young Reed
ISBN 13 : 9781921580390
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Australians written by Karin Cox and published by Young Reed. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before European settlement, about 700 Aboriginal nations-each of which had their own Dreaming songs, laws, customs and beliefs and spoke one of 250 or so languages-existed in Australia. First Australians is a comprehensive book for primary school children about Aboriginal life and customs. Find out how they lived, what they ate and how they adapted to life after British colonisation in 1788. The book also explains recent milestones such as the Australian Government's apology and reconciliation policies. First Australians includes an index, glossary and a quiz. Karin Cox is an Australian editor, poet and author who has written more than 28 natural history, Australian social history, children's picture books and travel guides. Two of her books have been listed on the Children's Book Council of Australia 2010 Notable Books list.

Author : Ronald Murray Berndt
Publisher : Adelaide : Rigby
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of the First Australians written by Ronald Murray Berndt and published by Adelaide : Rigby. This book was released on 1985 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes alterations to chapters I and XV; chapter XIV is amended and retitled and a previous Appendix has become an amended chapter XVI; also includes additional notes and an expanded bibliography.