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Author Haebich, Anna.

Title Broken circles : fragmenting indigenous families 1800-2000 / Anna Haebich
Edition Large print edition
Published Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000

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Description 725 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
regular print
Series EasyRead large print edition
Easyread large print edition
Contents Introduction: Remembering back through the heart -- 1. A boy's short life (written with Steve Mickler) -- 2. Experiments in civilising -- 3. Of citizens and outcasts -- 4. Special treatment Western Australian style -- 5. Fighting over the children -- 6. Brooms, spades and Bibles -- 7. Visions of assimilation -- 8. Making nuclear families -- 9. A twilight of knowing
Summary Overview of the history of the removal of Aboriginal children from their families
Analysis Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy
Aboriginal children
Aborigines
Families
Federal issue
History
Social conditions
Welfare measures
Notes Aboriginal content
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 673-692
Notes 2001 Book of the Year, N.S.W. Premier's Awards; 2001 AIATSIS W J Stanner Award; The Nettie Palmer Prize, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2001
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Children -- Government policy.
Aboriginal Australians -- Cultural assimilation.
Aboriginal Australians -- Relocation -- Government policy.
Aboriginal Australians -- Removal -- Government policy
Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- History.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- History.
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Government policy.
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Government relations.
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care.
Families, Aboriginal Australian -- History.
Food -- Packaging.
Stolen generations (Australia)
Stolen generations (Australia) -- History.
Child.
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Child.
SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Author Haebich, Anna.
Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
LC no. 2001334595
ISBN 1863683054
1920824189
Other Titles Broken circles : fragmenting indigenous families eighteen hundred to two thousand