| ISBN |
9781760879471 |
| 1760879479 |
| Author |
Broome, Richard, 1948- (author) |
| Title |
Aboriginal Victorians : a history since 1800 / Richard Broome. |
| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2024. |
| ©2024. |
| Description |
xxv, 502 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
First edition published in 2005. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The story of how Victoria's First Nations people survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. This second edition has been fully updated, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy south land-a prize left for them by God. For its original inhabitants, their Country was home and life, not to be relinquished without a fierce struggle. Richard Broome tells the story of the impact of European ideas, guns, killer microbes and a pastoral economy on the networks of kinship, trade and cultures that the First Nations people of Victoria had developed over millennia. He shows how families have coped with ongoing disruption and displacement, and how individuals and groups have challenged the system. With painful stories of personal loss as well as many successes, Broome outlines how Aboriginal Victorians survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. Aboriginal Victorians won the NSW Premier's History Awards Australian History Prize and the Victorian Community History Awards Best Print Publication Award, and was short-listed for the Human Rights Awards Non-Fiction Award. This second edition has been updated throughout, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. |
| Subjects |
Woiwurrung / Wurundjeri / Woiwurung people (S36) (Vic SJ55-05) |
| Kulin people (S21.1) (Vic SI54, SJ54) |
| Kurnai / Gunai people (S68) (Vic SJ55) |
| Woiwurrung / Wurundjeri / Woiwurung people (S36) (Vic SJ55-05) |
| Yorta Yorta / Yota Yota people (D2) (NSW SI55-13) |
| Bangerang people (S40) (Vic SJ55-02) |
| Djadja wurrung / Dyadyawurung / Dja Dja Wrung people (S31.1) (Vic SJ54-04) |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Social conditions |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- History |
| Indigenous peoples -- Australia |
| Colonisation |
| Government policy - Assimilation |
| Government policy - Initial period and protectionism |
| Habitation - Camps - Fringe and town |
| Politics and Government - Political action - Activism |
| Race relations |
| Settlement and contacts -- Government settlements, reserves |
| Social identity -- Aboriginality |
| Melbourne (Vic.) |
| Orbost (Vic.) |
| Bung Yarnda / Lake Tyers (E Vic Gippsland SJ55-07) |
| Ebenezer -- Lake Hindmarsh (NW Vic SJ54-03) |
| Framlingham (W Vic SJ54-11) |
| Healesville -- Coranderrk (E Vic Yarra Valley SJ55-06) |
| Lake Wellington -- Ramahyuck (E Vic Gippsland SJ55-11) |
| Shepparton -- Mooroopna -- Rumbalara (N Vic SJ55-01) |
| Tae Rak / Lake Condah (W Vic SJ54-11) |
| Victoria -- History |
| Victoria -- Social life and customs |
| Call number |
2024.053 |
