Indigenous Victorians: Repressed, Resourceful and Respected: The La Trobe Journal No 85 edited by Lynette Russell and John Arnold

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

Indigenous Victorians: Repressed, Resourceful and Respected provides a major contribution to the understanding and appreciation of the lives and aspirations of Victoria Aborigines and their interaction with white Australians from the beginning of European settlement to the present day.

Contents:

1. Repressed, resourceful and respected by Lynette Russell
2. George Augustus Robinson on Charles Joseph La Trobe: personal insights into a problematical relationship by Ian D Clark
3. 'Are you off to the Diggings?': Aboriginal guiding to an on the goldfields by Fred Cahir
4. 'It's not cricket': Victorian Aboriginal cricket at Coranderk by Barry Judd
5. James Dawson's scrapbook: advocacy and antipathy in colonial Western Victoria by Raymond Madden
6. My mate Ellen: cross-cultural friendship between women in a 'pioneer memoir' by Victoria Haskins and Shannon Schedlich-Day
7. Fishers and farmers: historicising the Gunditjmara freshwater fishery, Western Victoria by Ian J. McNiven and Damein Bell
8. Collaborating: photographs of Koories in the State Library of Victoria by Maxine Briggs, Jane Lydon and Madeleine Say
9. Possum skin cloaks: tradition, continuity and change by Helen Gibbins
10. At the grass roots of white support: Victorian Aboriginal Advancement League branches 1957-1972 by Richard Broome
11. Fighting for Lake Tyers by Sue Taffe
12. A guide to government acts, reports and regulations relating to indigenous Victorians by Jane Miller.