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Books on: aborigines or aboriginal or indigenous

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Words and Silences: Aboriginal Women, Politics and Land

Book by Peggy Brock; Allen & Unwin, 2001

Subjects:

Australian Aborigines--Government Relations, Australian Aborigines--Land Tenure, Women, Australian Aboriginal--Land Tenure

Collections: History, Entire Library

A fascinating investigation into how Aboriginal women communicate their knowledge to gain a public voice and recognition of their rights to land.
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The Family among the Australian Aborigines: A Sociological Study

Book by B. Malinowski; Schocken Books, 1963

Subjects:

Australian Aborigines--Social Life And Customs, Genealogy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...daily life in aboriginal Australia are...since 1788 aborigines have had to...about 40,000 aborigines of purely, or mainly, aboriginal ancestry and...towns there are aboriginal encampments. A few part-aborigines have become...
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Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History

Book by Bain Attwood; Allen & Unwin, 2005

Subjects:

Australia--History, Australia--Race Relations, Australian Aborigines, Australian Aborigines--Treatment

Collections: History, Entire Library

This provocative work grapples with some of the most difficult issues in Aboriginal history, showing how they raise fundamental concerns about the nature of historical knowledge, truth, and authority. Discussions of such controversial questions as How many Aboriginal people were killed in frontier ...
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This provocative work grapples with some of the most difficult issues in Aboriginal history, showing how they raise fundamental concerns about the nature of historical knowledge, truth, and authority. Discussions of such controversial questions as How many Aboriginal people were killed in frontier conflict and was this genocide? Was there ever a massacre at Risdon Cove in Tasmania? and Does Aboriginal oral history count as real history? attempt to shed some light an Australia's historical make-up.
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Voices in the Wilderness: Images of Aboriginal People in the Australian Media

Book by Michael Meadows; Greenwood Press, 2001

Subjects:

Australian Aborigines, Australian Aborigines--Press Coverage--Australia

Collections: Entire Library

...the term Indigenous people or Aboriginal people to Aborigines throughout...much as Indigenous people. See Office of the Aboriginal and Torres...Making of the Aborigines; Jeremy Beckett...depicted Indigenous people in...descriptions of Aboriginal Australians...stages-placing Aborigines as the most...
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Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police

Book by Chris Cunneen; Allen & Unwin, 2001

Subjects:

Australian Aborigines--Criminal Justice System, Australian Aborigines--Government Relations, Australian Aborigines--Social Conditions, Police--Australia

Collections: Entire Library

A thought-provoking analysis of how Indigenous people are policed and what effect this has on their communities.

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Journal Articles on: aborigines or aboriginal or indigenous

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Welfare Reform and Indigenous Empowerment

Journal article by Nerelle Poroch; Australian Aboriginal Studies, Vol. 2006, 2006

Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians--Civil rights, Aboriginal Australians--Political aspects, Australian aborigines--Civil rights, Australian aborigines--Political aspects, Indigenous peoples-government relations--Social aspects, Race discrimination--Analysis, Welfare reform--Analysis, Welfare reform--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...current whole-of-government approach to mainstreaming Indigenous welfare services. It is reminiscent of the governments New Deal for Aboriginal peoples in 1939 which included having Aborigines adopt a White Australian lifestyle. In advocating...
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Indigenous Futures: Choice and Development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia

Journal article by Hal Wootten; Australian Aboriginal Studies, Vol. 2002, 2002

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Indigenous Futures: Choice and Development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

Indigenous Futures: Choice and Development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia...Wootten Indigenous Futures: Choice and development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia...better for their Indigenous neighbours. They are finding that Aboriginals queue up to get...
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Indigenous Futures: Choice and Development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia

Journal article by Duncan Ivison; Australian Aboriginal Studies, Vol. 2004, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Indigenous futures: choice and development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

Indigenous Futures: Choice and Development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia...recent research done on Indigenous policy--broadly construed...ANU-based Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research...about the evolution of Indigenous public policy in Australia...
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Using the 'Power of the Data' within Indigenous Research Practice

Journal article by Maggie Walter; Australian Aboriginal Studies, Vol. 2005, 2005

Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians--Research, Australian aborigines--Research, Methodology, Research methods

Collections: Entire Library

...respected Tasmanian Aboriginal elder the late...is raised with Indigenous communities (see...examples of what Aborigines say about research...nations not one: Indigenous and other Australian...Paper 1, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy...1981, Urbanising Aborigines; the social scientists...
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What Does It Mean to Say That Aboriginal Suicide Is Different? Differing Cultures, Accounts, and Idioms of Distress in the Context of Indigenous Youth Suicide

Journal article by Joseph P. Reser; Australian Aboriginal Studies, Vol. 2004, 2004

Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians--Death of, Aboriginal Australians--Health aspects, Aboriginal Australians--Psychological aspects, Australian aborigines--Death of, Australian aborigines--Health aspects, Australian aborigines--Psychological aspects, Suicide--Causes of, Suicide--Demographic aspects, Suicide--Social aspects, Tatz, Colin--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...suicide among Aborigines, Maori, and...addressing indigenous suicide which...understanding of Aboriginal suicide...issue of Indigenous suicide in...1989a, b). Aboriginal perceptions...the case of Indigenous youth suicide, where Aboriginal individuals...

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Magazine Articles on: aborigines or aboriginal or indigenous

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No More Victims: Indigenous People Must Stop Expecting Help from Others and Start Taking Responsibility, Argues Noel Pearson, a Leading Aboriginal Lawyer

Magazine article by Noel Pearson; New Statesman, Vol. 136, August 20, 2007

Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians--Political aspects, Australia--Social aspects, Australian aborigines--Political aspects, Australians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Racism--Analysis, Separatism--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...No More Victims: Indigenous People Must Stop...Pearson, a Leading Aboriginal Lawyer. by...simplistic. Non-indigenous Australians hold...responsibility; Aboriginal views range from...the treatment of indigenous people was as bad...Sydneys Redfern Aboriginal community in 1992...
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Aboriginal Children Today Have the Same Life Expectancy as White Children in 1900. Yet Most Australians Can't Understand Why There Was an Uprising in Sydney This Year

Magazine article by John Pilger; New Statesman, Vol. 133, July 12, 2004

Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians--Social aspects, Australia--Social aspects, Australian aborigines--Social aspects, Indigenous peoples-government relations--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...own hand and some are beaten to death. Aborigines on average live more than 20 years less...Australian. As Akinsany a points out, Aboriginal children like TJs four young sisters...callous dismissal of the largely invisible indigenous population. The uprising on the Block...
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A Nation Divided: Though Australia Appears to Be Harmonious, the Gap between the Whites and the Indigenous Population Divides the Country like an Outback Canyon. Matthew Brace Discusses What the Future Holds for the Aborigines

Magazine article by Matthew Brace; Geographical, Vol. 73, November 2001

Subjects:

Australian aborigines--Government relations

Collections: Entire Library

...holds for the Aborigines by...with its indigenous people. In...hundreds of Aboriginal dancers flooded...Universitys Aboriginal Environments...expectancy of Aborigines to be much...than that of indigenous populations...In 1998, indigenous people made...proportions of Aboriginal people with...rate for Aborigines is 22.7 per...
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Standing Up for Tomorrow's Tribes: With Germaine Greer Proposing That Australians Reassess Their Perceptions of Aboriginal Rights and Identity in Her Controversial New Book Whitefella Jump Up, the Director of Survival International Stephen Corry Outlines the Situation Faced by Indigenous Peoples around the World

Magazine article by Stephen Corry; Geographical, Vol. 76, September 2004

Subjects:

Indigenous peoples--Civil rights, Indigenous peoples--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Perceptions of Aboriginal Rights and Identity...Situation Faced by Indigenous Peoples around...simplicity: "What aboriginal title confers is...settled "according to indigenous law without importing...peoples who are indigenous on account of their...On Australian Aboriginals: www.atsic.gov...
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Aboriginal Remains to Be Returned

Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 79, February 2007

Subjects:

Aboriginal Tasmanians--Laws, regulations and rules, Aboriginal Tasmanians--Research, Australia--Environmental policy, British Museum of Natural History--Laws, regulations and rules, British Museum of Natural History--Management, Tasmanian aborigines--Laws, regulations and rules, Tasmanian aborigines--Research

Collections: Entire Library

Aboriginal Remains to Be Returned. The Natural History Museum (NHM) is to return the remains of 18 Aboriginal people to Australia in line with new legislation introduced...decided to transfer the complete remains of 17 Tasmanian Aboriginals and the skull of an Aboriginal from the mainland back...

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Newspaper Articles on: aborigines or aboriginal or indigenous

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Compensation Calls Follow Apology to Aborigines

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 14, 2008

Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians--Compensation and benefits, Australian aborigines--Compensation and benefits

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...not add anything to the Aborigines chances of successful legal claims. But Aboriginal leaders say the hurt caused...000 mostly mixed-blood Aboriginal children were taken from...based on a premise that Aborigines were dying out. A government...
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Welsh Woman 'Stolen' from Her Aboriginal Family Returning to Australia 'For Happy Ending'

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 1, 2007

Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians, Australian aborigines, Theft

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Welsh Woman Stolen from Her Aboriginal Family Returning to Australia For...part of the "stolen generation" of Aboriginals taken from their parents. Leonie...Brisbane, to a white father and Aboriginal mother, but when admitted to hospital...
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Hiking an Aboriginal Song Line through Australia's Outback

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 30, 2006

Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians, Australian aborigines

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Hiking an Aboriginal Song Line through Australias Outback...follows an old Jaowyn song line, an Aboriginal path walked by Dreamtime creatures...be 200 years old or 20,000. On an Aboriginal song line, age is irrelevant anyway...
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Analysis; Australia Apologizes for Degrading Aborigines

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 13, 2008

Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians, Australian aborigines, Prime ministers

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...intention to make indigenous issues one of his...another first, Aborigines were invited to...mostly mixed-blood Aboriginal children were taken...wrongs _ as some indigenous leaders have demanded...standards of all Aborigines. His governments...generation, halving Aboriginal infant mortality...
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Crofters Go to UN for 'Same Rights as Aborigines'

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 25, 2007

Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians, Australian aborigines

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...nation status as Australias Aborigines or New Zealands Maoris. They...Nations to recognise them as an indigenous people. And it could open...already made inroads towards indigenous recognition and part of the...classed in the same bracket as Aborigines and the Kalahari bush people...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: aborigines or aboriginal or indigenous

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Australian Aborigines

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...population of aborigines and Torres...estimated aboriginal population...returned to the aborigines a degree of...recognized aboriginal property and...History of Aboriginal Australia...Bennett, Aborigines and Political...
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Aborigines

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

ABORIGINES see Australian aborigines . ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Maya , Indigenous People of Mexico and Central America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

MAYA , indigenous people of Mexico and Central America mi , Span. ma ya, indigenous people of S Mexico and Central America, occupying...Spaniards either eliminated or incorporated the indigenous elite into the new colonial system, leaving...
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Penobscot , Indigenous People of North America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

PENOBSCOT , indigenous people of North America p nob skot, indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). They were the largest...
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Mandan , Indigenous People of North America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

MANDAN , indigenous people of North America man dan, d n, indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Siouan bran