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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Title Page -- About this Book -- Copyright -- Contents -- Glossary -- List of Images -- Introduction A Song of Welcome -- PART 1 A Weeping Woman: Tarenootairer, c. 1806-1858 -- Chapter 1 Saltwater Country -- Chapter 2 Nummer-Lore (White Devil's Wife) -- Chapter 3 A Token of Grief -- Chapter 4 "Black Man's Houses" -- Chapter 5 Dinudară (Sarah) -- Chapter 6 Her Feeble Pulse -- PART 2 A Femme de Chambre: Mary Ann, c. 1821-1871 -- Chapter 7 A King's Island Daughter -- Chapter 8 The Bride and Bridegroom -- Chapter 9 "Your Humble Aborigine Child" -- Chapter 10 Her Majesty, the Queen |
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Chapter 11 Uncle Walter's Hut -- Chapter 12 Mary Ann and Her Countrywomen -- Chapter 13 Her Vital Spark Extinguished -- PART 3 A Vicissitude of Virtue? Fanny Cochrane, c. 1832-1905 -- Chapter 14 A Prison Nursery -- Chapter 15 The Organ of Perception -- Chapter 16 Propaganda, Progeny and Prosperity -- Chapter 17 Prove It or Lose It! -- Chapter 18 Rituals of Captivity: Deconstructing Indigenous "Christianity" -- Chapter 19 King Billy's Playmate -- Chapter 20 Goodbye, My Father, Mother -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author |
| Summary |
Tarenootairer (c.1806-58) was still a child when a band of white sealers bound her and forced her onto a boat. From there unfolded a life of immense cruelty inflicted by her colonial captors. As with so many Indigenous women of her time, even today the historical record of her life remains a scant thread embroidered with half-truths and pro-colonial propaganda.But Joel Stephen Birnie grew up hearing the true stories about Tarenootairer, his earliest known ancestral grandmother, and he was keen to tell his family's history without the colonial lens. Tarenootairer had a fierce determination to survive that had a profound effect on the course of Tasmanian history. Her daughters, Mary Ann Arthur (c.1820-71) and Fanny Cochrane Smith (c.1832-1905), shared her activism: Mary Ann's fight for autonomy influenced contemporary Indigenous politics, while Fanny famously challenged the false declaration of Indigenous Tasmanian extinction.Together, these three extraordinary women fought for the Indigenous communities they founded and sparked a tradition of social justice that continues in Birnie's family today.From the early Bass Strait sealing industries to George Augustus Robinson's 'conciliation' missions, to Aboriginal internment on Finders Island and at Oyster Cove, My People's Songs is both a constellation of the damage wrought by colonisation and a testament to the power of family. Revelatory, intimate and illuminating, it does more than assert these women's place in our nation's story - it restores to them a voice and a cultural context |
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Australian history |
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Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content |
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Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Tarenootairer, 1806-1858
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Tarenootairer, 1806-1858 -- Family
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History
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Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History
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Settlement and contacts - Colonisation
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Race relations - Racism
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Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
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History - Frontier conflict - Tasmania
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Politics and Government - Political action - Activism
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Government policy - State and territory - Tasmania
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
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Aboriginal Tasmanians
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Families
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Tasmania
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| Genre/Form |
Indigenous collection
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1922633208 |
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9781922633200 |
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9781922633194 |
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1922633194 |
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