Research Catalog

Title

Broken circles : fragmenting indigenous families, 1800-2000 / Anna Haebich.

Author

Haebich, Anna

Publication

Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

725 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

A comprehensive and accessible overview and analysis of government policy and practice in relation to the removal of indigenous children in Australia. This major work - the first of its kind - traces events from the earliest abductions of children by colonists to the formalised removal and institutionalisation this century.

Subject

• Children, Aboriginal Australian > Government policy
• Aboriginal Australians > Cultural assimilation
• Children, Aboriginal Australian > Institutional care
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander > Child > Australia
• Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 673-692) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Remembering Back Through the Heart -- A Boy's Short Life (written with Steve Mickler) -- Experiments in Civilising -- Of Citizens and Outcasts -- Special Treatment Western Australian Style -- Fighting Over the Children -- Brooms, Spades and Bibles -- Visions of Assimilation -- Making Nuclear Families -- A Twilight of Knowing -- Nineteenth-century legislation and institutions for Aboriginal children -- Summary of Aborigines Act 1905 -- Chronology of Aboriginal Children's Institutions in Western Australia, 1842-1970s -- Daily Timetable at Forrest River Mission, 1915-35.

ISBN

1863683054

LCCN

^^2001334595

OCLC

• 45741471
• SCSB-10359499

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library