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Author Calder, Graeme.

Title Levee, line and martial law : a history of the dispossession of the Mairremmener people of Van Diemens Land 1803-1832 / Graeme Calder
Published Launceston, Tas. : Fullers Bookshop, 2010

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 W'PONDS  994.60049915 Cal/Lla  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 321 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Series Studies in the history of Aboriginal Tasmania ; 2
Studies in the history of Aboriginal Tasmania ; 2
Contents 1. The arrival of othe nomads -- 2. An enduring and successful way of life -- 3. Happy wanderers -- 4. An incidental acquisition -- 5. Beautiful extensive plains -- 6. Chasing shadows -- 7. The 'Great Conciliator' -- Conclusion: A trip to Oyster Cove. Appendix 1: The affray at Risdon Cove. Appendix 2: Mairremmener people at Wybalenna Settlement
Summary This is the story of the Mairremmener people, better known as the Oyster Bay Tribe and the Big River Tribe, but by reason of a common language and a single culture, one group, one people. Dr Calder traces their history from prehistory, through the arrival of white people on to their organised resistance against the invaders of their land and their eventual capitulation
Analysis Mairemmener people
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-304) and index
Subject Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History -- 1803-1851
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Social conditions -- 1803-1851
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Treatment of -- History -- 19th century
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Treatment -- History -- 19th century.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Treatment.
Aboriginal Tasmanians, Treatment of -- History -- 19th century
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Social conditions -- 1803-1900
Aboriginal Tasmanians.
SUBJECT Tasmania -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004479 -- 1803-1851
Tasmania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004479
LC no. 2011486136
ISBN 0646530852 (Trade Paper)
9780646530857 (paperback)
Other Titles History of the dispossession of the Mairremmener people of Van Diemen's Land 1803-1832