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Douglas, Heather Anne. "Legal narratives of indigenous existence : crime, law and history /." Connect to thesis, 2005. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001751.
Full textLutz, John S. "Work, wages and welfare in aboriginal-non-aboriginal relations, British Columbia, 1849-1970." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9710.
Full textBennett, N. "My story of Annie's Mob: An Aboriginal history." Thesis, Bennett, N. (2016) My story of Annie's Mob: An Aboriginal history. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2016. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/32295/.
Full textStogre, Michael. "Papal social thought on aboriginal rights: A study in history." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7524.
Full textCahir, David (Fred). "The Wathawurrung people's encounters with outside forces 1797 -1849 : a history of conciliation and conflict." Thesis, The Author [Mt.Helen, Vic.] :, 2001. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/32645.
Full textOne of the difficulties in writing a regional history such as this thesis was the sensitivity surrounding the appropriate choice of terminology and spelling conventions. Conflicts have arisen between conforming to the standardisations of the History Discipline and a desire to accommodate the wishes of the indigenous communities in the geographical area of this study. The absence of trained linguists in the white community during the initial colonisation period has resulted in a considerable divergence of opinion over the nomenclature and spelling derivatives surrounding the indigenous people living in what is no w known as the Geelong-Ballarat region. The first white chroniclers referred to the Wathawurrung by a myriad of different names (over 100 different names were recorded by Clark for the people in this study area) including: Watowrong, Wartowrong, Wot o wrong, Watourong, Wodowrow . Throughout the text ofthis work 1 have applied the term Wathawurrung' to all indigenous groups in primary documents that involve the known language area of the Wathawurrung. Where there is some doubt as to which tribe is being referred to 1 have included other language groups that the writer ma y have also been referring to. " From Preface"
Kijas, Johanna. "Producing Aboriginal history : the development of three dominant themes, 1980-1990 /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1990. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ark472.pdf.
Full textWesson, Sue C. 1955. "The Aborigines of eastern Victoria and far south-eastern New South Wales, 1830-1910 : an historical geography." Monash University, School of Geography and Environmental Science, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8708.
Full textBartlett, William Bennett. "Origins of Persisting Poor Aboriginal Health: An Historical Exploration of Poor Aboriginal Health and the Continuity of the Colonial Relationship as an Explanation of the Persistence of Poor Aboriginal Health." University of Sydney, Public Health & Community Medicine, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/386.
Full textBartlett, William Bennett. "Origins of Persisting Poor Aboriginal Health: An Historical Exploration of Poor Aboriginal Health and the Continuity of the Colonial Relationship as an Explanation of the Persistence of Poor Aboriginal Health." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/386.
Full textFunston, Shelly Lee Katherine. "Historicizing the biological, physical data, disease history and New World aboriginal peoples." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ60375.pdf.
Full textTaylor, Colleen Jane. ""Variations of the rainbow" : mysticism, history and aboriginal Australia in Patrick White." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22467.
Full textThis study examines Patrick White's Voss, Riders in the Chariot and A Fringe of Leaves. These works, which span White's creative career, demonstrate certain abiding preoccupations, while also showing a marked shift in treatment and philosophy. In Chapter One Voss is discussed as an essentially modernist work. The study shows how White takes an historical episode, the Leichhardt expedition, and reworks it into a meditation on the psychological and philosophical impulses behind nineteenth century exploration. The aggressive energy required for the project is identified with the myth of the Romantic male. I further argue that White, influenced by modernist conceptions of androgyny, uses the cyclical structure of hermetic philosophy to undermine the linear project identified with the male quest. Alchemical teaching provides much of the novel's metaphoric density, as well as a map for the narrative resolution. Voss is the first of the novels to examine Aboriginal culture. This culture is made available through the visionary artist, a European figure who, as seer, has access to the Aboriginal deities. European and Aboriginal philosophies are blended at the level of symbol, making possible the creative interaction between Europe and Australia. The second chapter considers how, in Riders in the Chariot, White modifies premises central to Voss. A holocaust survivor is one of the protagonists, and much of the novel, I argue, revolves around the question of the material nature of evil. Kabbalism, a mystical strain of Judaism, provides much of the esoteric material, am White uses it to foreground the conflict between metaphysical abstraction and political reality. In Riders, there is again an artist-figure: part Aboriginal, part European, he is literally a blend of Europe and Australia and his art expresses his dual identity. This novel, too, is influenced by modernist models. However, here the depiction of Fascism as both an historical crisis and as a contemporary moral bankruptcy locates the metaphysical questions in a powerfully realised material dimension. Chapter Three looks at A Fringe of Leaves, which is largely a post-modernist novel. One purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate how it responds to its literary precursors and there is thus a fairly extensive discussion of the shipwreck narrative as a genre. The protagonist of the novel, a shipwreck survivor, cannot apprehend the symbolic life of the Aboriginals: she can only observe the material aspects of the culture. Symbolic acts are thus interpreted in their material manifestation. The depiction of Aboriginal life is less romanticised than that given in Voss, as White examines the very real nature of the physical hardships of desert life. The philosophic tone of A Fringe of Leaves is most evident, I argue, in the figure of the failed artist. A frustrated writer, his models are infertile, and he offers no vision of resolution. There is a promise, however, offered by these novels themselves, for in them White has given a voice to women, Aboriginals and convicts, groups normally excluded from the dominating discursive practice of European patriarchy.
Peikoff, Tannis Mara. "Anglican missionaries and governing the self, an encounter with Aboriginal peoples in western Canada, 1820-1865." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ53072.pdf.
Full textBriskman, Linda 1947. "Aboriginal activism and the stolen generations : the story of SNAICC." Monash University, National Centre for Australian Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9293.
Full textInkpin, Cathleen. "Making their Gospel known: the work and legacy of the Aboriginal Inland Mission, 1905-1938." Thesis, Department of History, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7972.
Full textFairweather, Joan G. "Is this Apartheid? Aboriginal reserves and self-government in Canada 1960-1982." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6546.
Full textMengler, Sarah Elizabeth. "Collecting indigenous Australian art, 1863-1922 : rethinking art historical approaches." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709014.
Full textBatten, Bronwyn. "From prehistory to history shared perspectives in Australian heritage interpretation /." Thesis, Electronic version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/445.
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Introduction and method -- General issues in heritage interpretation: Monuments and memorials; Museums; Other issues -- Historic site case studies: Parramatta Park and Old Government House; The Meeting Place Precinct - Botany Bay National Park; Myall Creek -- Discussion and conclusions.
It has long been established that in Australia contemporary (post-contact) Aboriginal history has suffered as a result of the colonisation process. Aboriginal history was seen as belonging in the realm of prehistory, rather than in contemporary historical discourses. Attempts have now been made to reinstate indigenous history into local, regional and national historical narratives. The field of heritage interpretation however, still largely relegates Aboriginal heritage to prehistory. This thesis investigates the ways in which Aborigianl history can be incorporated into the interpetation of contemporary or post-contact history at heritage sites. The thesis uses the principle of 'shared history' as outlined by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, as a starting point in these discussions.
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Slack, Michael Jon. "Between the desert and the Gulf : evolutionary anthropology and Aboriginal prehistory in the Riversleigh/Lawn Hill region, Northern Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2748.
Full textLowish, Susan Kathleen 1969. "Writing on "Aboriginal art" 1802-1929 : a critical and cultural analysis of the construction of a category." Monash University, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5493.
Full textYellowhorn, Eldon Carlyle. "Awakening internalist archaeology in the aboriginal world." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38532.
Full textArchaeology appeared on the radar of First Nations because their growing populations demand housing and economic opportunities. Recent settlement of land claims has brought large tracts of land under the control of Native people. Archaeological sites, by their very nature, are defined by their geographical location. Artifacts and sites are the products of past human labour and as such are a unique cultural legacy that must be understood within the context of a generalized world history. Internalist archaeology mediates between a local understanding of antiquity and the ancient history of humanity on a global scale. It is a product of the dialogue that began when the world system intruded on the local experience of aboriginal people. Modern prehistory was accessible only by employing archaeological methods and traditional history, as related in story, was relegated to the margins along with its authors. Myths were discounted as plausible sources of explanation for antiquity as archaeologists constructed their theories to explain the data they accumulated during their excavations. Internalist archaeology is an analytical tool that will play a prominent role in rehabilitating oral narratives by deploying methods to search for the signatures they would leave in the archaeological record. It is also a means to examine folklore so as to discover the messages that are encoded in myths. Myths act as mediating devices which connect the high levels of abstraction, those informing the traditional worldview, with lower levels of abstractions, as represented by customs. Ecological messages are encrypted in narratives which are then transmitted between generations. Each generation must decypher the meaning embedded in a myth to benefit from it. For internalist archaeology, mythology is a reservoir of explanation that has been ignored by mainstream research but which can be the basis for this brand of archaeological research. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Ticehurst, Kathryn Louise. "Interactions in the field: three women anthropologists in Aboriginal communities in south-east Australia, 1944-1963." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28745.
Full textAndrew, Robert Frederick. "Describing an Indigenous Experience: The Unforgetting of Australian history through language and technology." Thesis, Griffith University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/387968.
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Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)
Queensland College of Art
Arts, Education and Law
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Koungoulos, Loukas. "The Natural And Cultural History Of The Dingo: A 3D Geometric Morphometric Investigation." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27785.
Full textWoodpower, Zeb Joseph. "The Australian National History Curriculum: Politics at Play." Thesis, Department of History, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10246.
Full textRyan, Robin Ann 1946. ""A spiritual sound, a lonely sound" : leaf music of Southeastern aboriginal Australians, 1890s-1990s." Monash University, Dept. of Music, 1999. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8584.
Full textAvery, John (John Timothy). "The law people : history, society and initiation in the Borroloola area of the Northern Territory." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6636.
Full textThomas, Colin, and s3143898@student rmit edu au. "Reviving History of Ganai Families and Resounding Gunai Language through the Creative Arts for Future Generations." RMIT University. Education, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090507.154637.
Full textSalsberg, Jonathan S. "History, tradition & aboriginal rights : a harvesters' support programme for the Mushuau Innu of Utshimassits." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32940.
Full textMalone, Molly Sue. "Where the water meets the land : between culture and history in Upper Skagit aboriginal territory." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45633.
Full textKonishi, Shino Amanda. "Bodies in contact : European representations of Aboriginal men 1770-1803." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10080.
Full textPresland, Gary. "The natural history of Melbourne - a reconstruction." Connect to thesis, 2005. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2887.
Full textNolan, Rosa. "‘We want to do what they did’: History at St Clair." Thesis, Department of History, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8833.
Full textMuldoon, Paul (Paul Alexander) 1966. "Under the eye of the master : the colonisation of aboriginality, 1770-1870." Monash University, Dept. of Politics, 1998. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8552.
Full textau, Ahunter@echidna id, and Ann Patricia Hunter. "A different kind of subject: Aboriginal legal status and colonial law in Western Australia, 1829 -1861." Murdoch University, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070427.125700.
Full textGriffiths, William Rhys. "Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17562.
Full textCollins, Curtis J. 1962. "Sites of Aboriginal difference : a perspective on installation art in Canada." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38172.
Full textCopland, Mark Stephen. "Calculating Lives: The Numbers and Narratives of Forced Removals in Queensland 1859 - 1972." Thesis, Griffith University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367813.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Arts, Media and Culture
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Presley, Ryan John. "The Legacy of Lesser Gods." Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367360.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Queensland College of Art
Arts, Education and Law
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Engelhart, Monica. "Extending the tracks : A cross-reductionistic approach to Australian Aboriginal male initiation rites." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell international, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37702264t.
Full textParsons, Meg. "Spaces of Disease: the creation and management of Aboriginal health and disease in Queensland 1900-1970." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5572.
Full textIndigenous health is one of the most pressing issues confronting contemporary Australian society. In recent years government officials, medical practitioners, and media commentators have repeatedly drawn attention to the vast discrepancies in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. However a comprehensive discussion of Aboriginal health is often hampered by a lack of historical analysis. Accordingly this thesis is a historical response to the current Aboriginal health crisis and examines the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal bodies in Queensland during the early to mid twentieth century. Drawing upon a wide range of archival sources, including government correspondence, medical records, personal diaries and letters, maps and photographs, I examine how the exclusion of Aboriginal people from white society contributed to the creation of racially segregated medical institutions. I examine four such government-run institutions, which catered for Aboriginal health and disease during the period 1900-1970. The four institutions I examine – Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, Peel Island Lazaret, Fantome Island lock hospital and Fantome Island leprosarium – constituted the essence of the Queensland Government’s Aboriginal health policies throughout this time period. The Queensland Government’s health policies and procedures signified more than a benevolent interest in Aboriginal health, and were linked with Aboriginal (racial) management strategies. Popular perceptions of Aborigines as immoral and diseased directly affected the nature and focus of government health services to Aboriginal people. In particular the Chief Protector of Aboriginals Office’s uneven allocation of resources to medical segregation facilities and disease controls, at the expense of other more pressing health issues, specifically nutrition, sanitation, and maternal and child health, materially contributed to Aboriginal ill health. This thesis explores the purpose and rationales, which informed the provision of health services to Aboriginal people. The Queensland Government officials responsible for Aboriginal health, unlike the medical authorities involved in the management of white health, did not labour under the task of ensuring the liberty of their subjects but rather were empowered to employ coercive technologies long since abandoned in the wider medical culture. This particularly evident in the Queensland Government’s unwillingness to relinquish or lessen its control over diseased Aboriginal bodies and the continuation of its Aboriginal-only medical isolation facilities in the second half of the twentieth century. At a time when medical professionals and government officials throughout Australia were almost universally renouncing institutional medical solutions in favour of more community-based approaches to ill health and diseases, the Queensland Government was pushing for the creation of new, and the continuation of existing, medical segregation facilities for Aboriginal patients. In Queensland the management of health involved inherently spatialised and racialised practices. However spaces of Aboriginal segregation did not arise out of an uncomplicated or consistent rationale of racial segregation. Rather the micro-histories of Fantome Island leprosarium, Peel Island Lazaret, Fantome Island lock hospital and Barambah Aboriginal Settlement demonstrate that competing logics of disease quarantine, reform, punishment and race management all influenced the ways in which the Government chose to categorise, situate and manage Aboriginal people (their bodies, health and diseases). Evidence that the enterprise of public health was, and still is, closely aligned with the governance of populations.
O'Donnell, David O'Donnell, and n/a. "Re-staging history : historiographic drama from New Zealand and Australia." University of Otago. Department of English, 1999. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070523.151011.
Full textRobinson, Raymond Stanley. "Dreaming tracks : history of the Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Scheme, 1972-1979 : its place in the continuum." Thesis, View thesis View thesis, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/76.
Full textRossi, Alana. "An archaeological re-investigation of the Mulka's Cave Aboriginal rock art site, near Hyden, Southwestern Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2010. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1884.
Full textRobinson, Raymond Stanley, of Western Sydney Nepean University, and of Social Community and Organisational Studies School. "Dreaming tracks : history of the Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Scheme, 1972-1979 : its place in the continuum." THESIS_XXX_SCOS_Robinson_R.xml, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/76.
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Darwell, Marcus Thomas. "Canada and the history without a people, identity, tradition and struggle in a non-status aboriginal community." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ28189.pdf.
Full textCahir, David (Fred). "Black gold : A history of the role of Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria, 1850-70." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2006. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/67184.
Full text""History's blinkers" : resituating 1950s aboriginal socio-economic history within anomie theory." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-11-1412.
Full textPerry, Lawrence Joseph. "‘Mission Impossible’: Aboriginal survival before, during and after the Aboriginal Protection Era." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1041791.
Full textThe topic I chose for my thesis is something I personally felt very strongly about. I was driven to undertake this important research study for my family, local community and the wider Aboriginal community. I wanted to write a story about the history of an Aboriginal Mission of a small coastal town in New South Wales, Karuah, and to deliver an accurate historical record so that younger generations of the Worimi people can understood the changing lifestyles of their ancestors before, during and after the arrival of Europeans. The thesis discusses Aboriginal survival, living on the mission under the control of Christian missionaries and government policies of so-called protection. During and after the reign of the Aborigines Protection /Welfare Board, the mission underwent substantial transformations, which I also personally experienced as I was growing up there. The limited historical research undertaken on missions, reserves and stations, like that at Karuah have, to a large degree, been a missing piece of Aboriginal history. Australia and its institutions systematically denounced, omitted and erased a significant period of our history that caused the shattering of our people’s cultural beliefs, families and communities. These designated tracts of government land became the catalyst for many social and economic problems that Aboriginal people experienced and are still coming to terms with today. Our people were often plagued with extreme poverty and hardship, yet little concern was raised in the wider Australian society. Australian governments believed that Aboriginal people were a dying race destined for extinction whilst under the governments’ paternal care. This thesis was written to provide our younger generations with information of the paths our Worimi ancestors were compelled to follow and the lifestyle and freedoms that were restricted and controlled. The account I present reveals our people continually confronting bias and racial discrimination in that small town where the Karuah mission was established, and how they experienced and contested the racist attitudes of the local Karuah residents and wider Australian society. This thesis provides an Aboriginal historical perspective in displaying the mission’s transformation over the years and showing the struggle and courage of our ancestors who lived in a very different era from today. In the end it is not just a story of tragedy and destruction but one of great pride, survival, success and triumph.
Tirkey, Tairash. "The Southern aboriginal tribes of Orissa." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/5462.
Full textBrennan, SN. "Island women : an oral history, 1910-1960." Thesis, 2002. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19131/1/whole_BrennanSherylNilma2002_thesis.pdf.
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