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Reaching back : Queensland aboriginal people recall early days at Yarrabah Mission
- Title
- Reaching back : Queensland aboriginal people recall early days at Yarrabah Mission / edited by Judy Thomson.
- Publication
- Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Thomson, Judy, 1931-
- Description
- xxiv, 136 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- In this book two generations of Aboriginal people connected with the community of Yarrabah in North Queensland tell their stories, some going back to the turn of the century. These accounts, and the many photographs which accompany them, vividly depict life in Queensland under the Act. They recall dormitory and school life, marriage and work at Yarrabah Mission, the struggle for survival during the Depression years and the loss of their language and culture. Today the Aboriginal people of North Queensland are reaching back to their roots. They are trying to regain what they can of their culture and pass on to their children a sense of pride in being Aboriginal.
- Alternative Title
- Queensland aboriginal people recall early days at Yarrabah Mission.
- Subject
- Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Cairns Region (Qld.) > Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians > Missions > Australia > Cairns Region (Qld.)
- Education - Schools
- Religions - Christianity - Anglican Church
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Government policy - State and territory - Queensland
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1901-1925
- Aboriginal Australians > Missions
- Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions
- Iwi taketake
- Yarrabah Aboriginal Reserve (Qld.) > History
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
- Yarrabah / Cape Grafton (NE Qld SE55-02)
- Queensland > Cairns Region
- Queensland > Yarrabah Aboriginal Reserve
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Before the missionaries -- Chapter 2. Coming in, picked up or twice removed -- Chapter 3. Dormitory and school life -- Chapter 4. Old ways, new ways -- Chapter 5. Marriage and working life at the mission -- Chapter 6. Leaving: exemption, escape or removal -- Chapter 7. The legacy.
- ISBN
- 0855752076
- 9780855752071
- LCCN
- 89219313
- OCLC
- ocm21035419
- 21035419
- SCSB-1891306
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library