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End of an era : aboriginal labour in the Northern Territory
- Title
- End of an era : aboriginal labour in the Northern Territory / Ronald M. Berndt & Catherine H. Berndt.
- Author
- Berndt, Ronald M. (Ronald Murray), 1916-1990.
- Publication
- Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1987.
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- Description
- xx, 310 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Retrospective analysis of survey of Aboriginal labour on cattle stations, Army Aboriginal Settlements, 1944-46; stations, all owned by Australian Investment Agency (Vesteys), include Wave Hill, Waterloo, Limbunya, Birrundudu, Gordon Downs, Manbulloo, Willeroo; Army Settlements include Katherine Civil Settlement, Manbulloo Army settlement; also Daly River region; inadequacy of diet, starvation; inadequate supplies of drinking, washing water, shelter, educational, medical facilities; infant mortality, birth rate; sexual relations, white men, Aboriginal women; labour recruitment, remuneration; costs to stations for food, clothing, sundries supplied to Aborigines; conduct of white staff, Aboriginal attitudes; responses to report, recommendations.
- Subject
- Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Northern Territory > History
- Aboriginal Australians > Employment > History. > Australia > Northern Territory
- Cattle trade > Australia > Northern Territory > History
- Defence - Armed forces - Veterans
- Water supply
- Costume and clothing
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Beef cattle
- Demography - Birth rate
- Health status - Nutrition
- Health services
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Race relations
- Attitudes - Indigenous attitudes
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Sex relations
- Health status - Child health - Infants
- Socioeconomic conditions - Living conditions
- 73.30 economic conditions of existence: general (ethnology)
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians > Employment
- Cattle trade
- Arbeiter
- Beschäftigung
- Labour
- Aborigines
- Aborigènes d'Australie
- Iwi taketake
- Geschichte 1944-1945
- Daguragu / Kalkaringi / Wave Hill (Central NT SE52-08)
- Birrindudu (Central NT SE52-11)
- Kundat Djaru / Gordon Downs (WA East Kimberley SE52-10)
- Katherine (NT Top End SD53-09)
- Manbulloo (NT Top End SD53-09)
- Willeroo (North NT SD52-16)
- Waterloo (Central NT SE52-03)
- Daly Waters (North NT SE53-01)
- Limbunya (Central NT SE52-07)
- Northern Territory
- Northern Territory
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 301-305.
- ISBN
- 0855751754
- 9780855751753
- LCCN
- 88116368
- OCLC
- ocm16936731
- 16936731
- SCSB-1186886
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library