Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Australian voices, glimpses of our pioneering past through diaries, letters and recollections from the First Fleet to the Great War, edited by Ariana Klepac & John Thompson

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-380)

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Australian voices

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edited by Ariana Klepac & John Thompson

glimpses of our pioneering past through diaries, letters and recollections from the First Fleet to the Great War

Collection of letters and journal entries from the time of the First Fleet to the First World War; some mention Aboriginal people; one letter is from Bessy Cameron and the Aboriginal people at Ramahyuck to the Education Department asking for the two women in charge of the school to be removed for demoralising the children

First impressions -- On the land: The Victorian gold rush -- Town life: a convict colony -- Home and family : food and drink -- At play: Christmas -- War and the end of the pioneering eraPartial contents: 'Where the d--ce is Sydney Cove Port Jackson?' / George Worgan -- The basest of mankind / James Tuckey -- An exact portrait of a savage from Botany Bay [illustraion p. 36] -- The scene of our exile / Harriet Douglas -- Come again to them in the shape of a white man / James Buckley -- You propser on our native soil / Paul de Strzelecki -- Settlers scarcely less savage / Niel Black -- The subject of the treatment of the natives / Chales Griffith -- A 'white leubra' / Chambers Edinburgh journal -- They intend to kill more / Elizabeth Tierney -- Native dance / John Cotton -- Like a diadem on the head of a monarch / George Gordon McCrae -- Their sense of proprietary right / Godfrey Charles Mundy -- Title to the soil / John Cotton -- No knowledge of their history / George Hobler -- They have done enough in this country to ruin the natives / Tommy Michie -- No slavery in a free land / Captain Arthur Phillip -- Thoroughly colonial scenes / Mrs Charles (Ellen) Clacy -- They demoralise our children / Bessy Cameron -- A waddy as a carving knife / Edward Snell -- The coursing of the emu and kangaroo (illustration)