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Indigenous and Minority Placenames: Australian and International Perspectives
This book showcases current research into Indigenous and minority placenames in Australia and internationally. Many of the chapters in this volume originated as papers at a Trends in Toponymy conference hosted by the University of Ballarat in 2007 that featured Australian and international speakers. The chapters in this volume provide insight into the quality of toponymic research that is being…
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In the Eye of the Beholder: What Six Nineteenth-century Women Tell Us About I…
This book offers a fresh perspective in the debate on settler perceptions of Indigenous Australians. It draws together a suite of little known colonial women (apart from Eliza Fraser) and investigates their writings for what they reveal about their attitudes to, views on and beliefs about Aboriginal people, as presented in their published works. The way that reader expectations and publishersâ€â€¦
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- 9781925021974
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In Defence of Country: Life Stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander …
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been protecting country since time immemorial. One way they have continued these traditions in recent times is through service in the Australian military, both overseas and within Australia. In Defence of Country presents a selection of life stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ex-servicemen and women who served in the Australian Arm…
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- 9781925022803
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Yuendumu: Legacy of a Longitudinal Growth Study in Central Australia
This book provides a comprehensive account of a unique pioneering longitudinal study of human growth that continues to contribute to our knowledge and raise new questions 60 years after it commenced. Although over 200 scientific publications have arisen from the study, this book describes, in a single volume, the key researchers involved, the Australian Aboriginal people from Yuendumu who parti…
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Made to Matter: White Fathers, Stolen Generations
Most members of the Stolen Generations had white fathers or grandfathers. Who were these white men? This book analyses the stories of white fathers, men who were positioned as key players in the plans to assimilate Aboriginal people by ‘breeding out the colour'. The policy was an cruel failure. It conflated skin colour with culture and assumed that Aboriginal women and their children woul…
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Better Than Welfare? : Work and livelihoods for Indigenous Australians after …
The end of the very long-standing Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme in 2015 marked a critical juncture in Australian Indigenous policy history. For more than 30 years, CDEP had been among the biggest and most influential programs in the Indigenous affairs portfolio, employing many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. More recently, it had also become …
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- 9781760460280
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- Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 36
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Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity
Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta writing has come to be seen as a distinct literature. In this volume Melnyk and Coates continue the project of scholarly analysis of Alberta literature that they began…
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Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art
This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic concepts and underlying approaches to new media from a distinctly Indigenous perspective. Through discourse and narrative analysis, the writers discuss a number of topics ranging from how Indigen…
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- 9781552387887
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- 700 COD
Xiipúktan (First of All): Three Views of the Origins of the Quechan People
The Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of time, and their Creation myth explains how they came into existence, the origin of their environment, and the significance of their oldest traditions. The Creation myth forms the backdrop against which much of the tr…
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Small Spirits: Native American Dolls from the National Musuem of the American…
Mary Jane Lenz’s insightful, authoritative text discusses the intriguing roles dolls have played in Native American cultures and explores their significance today, while historical photographs bring to life the people who made and used these remarkable creations. Featuring a superb selection from the museum’s collections, Lenz’s landmark book will appeal to scholar, collector, and general…
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