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Author Davey, Martin.

Title Essays on the Western District frontier 1835 - 45 : eye-opening studies on secrets kept since Victoria's frontier days: about our aborigines, our pioneers and our unknown convicts / Martin Davey
Published Blackburn, Vic. : PenFolk Publishing, 2011
Blackburn, Victoria : PenFolk Publishing, 2011

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 ADPML SPWV  398.2049915 Dav/Eot  LIB USE ONLY
Description 72 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 21 cm
Contents 1. The Aborigines of South-West Victoria -- 2. Some selected truths about Victoria's pioneers -- 3. The stand-out role of homosexuality in the British settlement of Terra Australis -- 4. Aboriginal social organisation - Very briefly -- 5. The case for football as a sacred contest
Summary This is a collection of essays that details the lives of the traditional custodians of Australia in the years before the European settlement
Analysis Australian
Restricted Mediated access: access to First Nations materials may be restricted while an audit, reparative description and reclassification of these materials is in progress
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore.
Aboriginal Australians -- Marriage customs and rites -- Australia -- Victoria.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Victoria.
SUBJECT Western District (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91102452
Western District (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91102452 -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
ISBN 9781875894857 (paperback)