203 pages : illustrations, 2 maps, portraits ; 28 cm
Contents
Contents: Video: People of the Lake / producer: Fiona Cochrane ; writer-director, John Armstrong.-- Video: Koorie culture, Koorie control / written and directed by Russell Porter ; produced by Lucy Maclaren.-- Book: Living Aboriginal history of Victoria : stories in the oral tradition / Alick Jackomos, Derek Fowell.--Teachers' notes
Summary
A series of interviews with Australian aborigines (or the Koori people as they refer to themselves) living in Victoria. The interviews cover a wide range of experiences typical of Aboriginals living in modern white society including living on mission stations, the forced removal of children from parents, living on the river bank and the fringes of towns, agricultural work, artistic endeavours, the rediscovery of Aboriginal roots, international politics, sport and music
Analysis
Australian aborigines History
Victoria
Aboriginal Australians - Victoria
Aboriginal Australians - History
Aboriginal Australians - Interviews
Aborigines
Biography
Kooris
Oral history - Aboriginal Australians
Social conditions
Victoria
Notes
"The Museum of Victoria's Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee was responsible for the author's brief ..."--p. 9
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 202-203
Notes
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Restricted
Mediated access: access to First Nations materials may be restricted while an audit, reparative description and reclassification of these materials is in progress