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Indigenous Australia for Dummies [electronic resource].

Indigenous Australia for Dummies [electronic resource].

Indigenous Australia for Dummies [electronic resource].

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvxLJ7vX3l

Indigenous Australia for Dummies [electronic resource].

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Indigenous Australia for Dummies [electronic resource].

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Publisher

Milton, QLD : Wiley, 2012.

Date

2012.

Record Identifier

74VvxLJ7vX3l

MMS ID

991016764889702626

Language

English

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Physical content

1 online resource (451 p.)

Contents

Indigenous Australia For Dummies®; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organised; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: An Ancient People: Then and Now; Chapter 1: Und...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations TodayA Note about the Torres Strait Islands; Saying G'Day; Opening an Event: Welcome to Country; What It's Like to Be an Aboriginal Person or a Torres Strait Islander; Chapter 3: A Land of Cultural Diversity; Exploring the Indigenous Relationship to...

Contemporary Cultural ValuesPart II: Invasion; Chapter 5: First Contacts; Looking for the Unknown Southern Land: Contact before 1770; Landing in Australia: Cook's Arrival; Establishing a British Colony; Seeing through Indigenous Eyes: Perspectives on the Arrival; Chapter 6: The Brits' First Colony:...

Growing the British ColonyDealing with Frontier Conflict; Ignoring Prior Ownership: No Treaties; Chapter 8: Land, Livestock and Loss; Clashing Cultures: Conflict over Land; Aboriginal People and the Developing Pastoral Economy; Asserting Rights and Other Acts of Resistance; Chapter 9: Taking the Chi...

British Subjects, but Not Quite . . .Excluding Indigenous People from the Constitution; War Heroes: World War I and World War II; Still Denied Equality; Not Taking It Lying Down; Steps Towards Equality; Chapter 11: The 1967 Referendum; Growing Awareness of Indigenous Disadvantage; The Referendum Is...

Examining Public Reactions to Land Claims.

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Publisher

Milton, QLD : Wiley, 2012.

Date Published

2012.

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Access Conditions

Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Summary

A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming? How many different Indigenous tribes and languages once existed in Australia? What is the purpose of a corroboree? What effect do the events of the past have on Indigenous peoples today? Indigenous Australia For Dummies a...

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Indigenous Australia for Dummies [electronic resource].

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74VvxLJ7vX3l

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvxLJ7vX3l

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ISBN

9781118308448

DDC

395.230899915

MMS ID

991016764889702626