Description |
ix, 90 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 27 cm |
Series |
Report series / Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies |
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Report series (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)
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Contents |
Study area : physical geography, land use history prior to 1842, present land use and previous investigations -- Aboriginal associations: ethnography and land tenure, archaeological background, pre-contact life and culture -- Historical background : Yarra Aboriginal Village Mission, Native Police Corps, 1837, 1838, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate, 1838-1849 : the assistant protectors: their first months; Western Port District of the Aborigina Protectorate: William Thomas, Assistant Protector, the Yarra River at Melbourne, Arthur's seat, Narre Narre Warren, Merri Creek Native Police paddocks and headquarters -- Merri Creek Protectorate Station : historical sources, site selection for the Merri Creek Protectorate Station, buildings and structural features; Edward Peacock, schoolmaster 1/12/1845 - 31/5/1848 : attendance and the movement of pupils, departure of Edward Peacock; Francis Edgar, schoolmaster 1/7/1848-31/1/1851: attendance and the movements of pupils, cultivation and industry, "Black Boys Bridge" and the 1850 flood; closure of Merri Creek Aboriginal School -- After the protectorate |
Summary |
The story of an area that marks one of the most important post-contact places in Melbourne and which is of great significance to Victorian Aboriginal people, particularly the Wurundjeri Aboriginal community |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 81-85 |
Notes |
Also available online |
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Ian D. Clark and Toby Heydon 2004 |
Subject |
Merri Creek Aboriginal School (Vic.) -- History.
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Merri Creek Aboriginal School -- History
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Merri Creek Protectorate Station -- History
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Wurundjeri (Australian people) -- History -- 19th century.
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Wurundjeri (Australian people) -- Colonization -- Australia -- Victoria.
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Wurundjeri (Australian people) -- Australia -- Victoria -- Government relations.
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Wurundjeri (Australian people) -- Education -- Australia -- Victoria.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- Victoria -- Port Phillip Region
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Aboriginal Australians -- Education -- Australia -- Merri Creek (Vic.)
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Merri Creek (Vic.)
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Historic sites -- Australia -- Merri Creek (Vic.)
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Aboriginal Australians -- Education -- Australia -- Victoria -- Merri Creek
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Victoria -- Merri Creek
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Historic sites -- Australia -- Victoria -- Merri Creek
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SUBJECT |
Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 1834-1851
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Merri Creek Protectorate Station (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006002586 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Victoria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046608 -- Colonization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005562
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Victoria -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556
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Merri Creek Valley (Vic.) -- History
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Merri Creek (Vic.) -- History
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Yarra Bend Park (Melbourne, Vic.) -- History
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Author |
Heydon, Toby, 1972-
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Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
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LC no. |
2005434796 |
ISBN |
0855754699 : |
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