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Author Roberts, Janine, 1942-

Title Jack of Cape Grim : a Victorian adventure / Jan Roberts
Published Richmond, Vic. : Greenhouse, 1986

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  994.50049915 Rob  AVAILABLE
 MELB  994.502 R645J  AVAILABLE
Description 123 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary Detailed account of organised and armed attacks on settlers in the Western Port District by five Tasmanian Aborigines brought to Victoria by G.A. Robinson - Truganini, Matilda (Pyterrunner), Fanny (Planobeena), Jack (Tunnerminnerwait/Napoleon) and Robert Smallboy (Peevay); contact history and Aboriginal resistance in Tasmania and Victoria; work of Chief Protector and Assistant Protectors of Aborigines; capture, trial and execution of Aboriginal guerrillas
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [108]-117
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Truganini, approximately 1812-1876.
Tunnerminnerwait, 1812-1842
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Biography.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History -- 19th century.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Treatment of -- History -- 19th century
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Treatment.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Treatment -- Australia -- Victoria.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Victoria -- Crime
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Victoria
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Australia -- Victoria -- Western Port region
Australians -- Relations with aborigines -- History
SUBJECT Melbourne (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029787 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Tasmania -- History -- 1803-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004483
Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475
Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 1834-1851
Victoria -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 086436007X