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Author Stevens, Leonie, 1962-

Title 'Me write myself' : the free aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 / Leonie Stevens
Published Clayton, Victoria, Australia : Monash University Publishing, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xliv, 356 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 40,000 years to exile -- Exiled to great land -- The promise of Wybalenna -- The battle for VDL souls -- Empire, agency and a humble petition -- Defeating Wybalenna
Summary A book to challenge the traditional notion of the the aboriginal inhabitants of Wybalenna as hopeless, dispossessed and illiterate. Author Leonie Stevens draws together written records including items in the Flinders Island Chronicle, sermons, letters and petitions to give the community a voice they have never been acknowledged as having. Seen through their own writing, the community can be seen for the first time as vibrant, complex and evolving
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Nov. 30, 2017)
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Wybalenna (Tas.) -- Correspondence
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Wybalenna (Tas.) -- Social conditions
Exiles -- Australia -- Tasmania.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Flinders Island (Tas.) -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Flinders Island (Tas.) -- Social conditions
Australasian & Pacific history.
HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Exiles
SUBJECT Flinders Island (Tas.) -- Social conditions
Wybalenna (Tas.) -- History
Wybalenna (Tas.) -- Social conditions
Subject Tasmania
Tasmania -- Flinders Island
Genre/Form Personal correspondence
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020716426
ISBN 9781925495652
1925495655
9781925495638
1925495639
9781925523867
1925523861