'Me write myself' : the free aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47
Aboriginal Australians Flinders Island (Tas.) Wybalenna (Tas.)
Monash University Publishing
2017
EISBN 9781925495638
""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. 40,000 Years to Exile""; ""Chapter 2. Exiled to Great Island""; ""Chapter 3. The Promise of Wybalenna""; ""Chapter 4. The Battle for VDL Souls""; ""Chapter 5. Empire, Agency and a Humble Petition""; ""Chapter 6. Defeating Wybalenna""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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.
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.
