Research Catalog

Title

Who killed the Koories? / Michael Cannon.

Author

Cannon, Michael.

Publication

Port Melbourne, Vic. : William Heinemann Australia, 1990.

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Details

Description

295 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Description of race relations, violent clashes and government policy in Victoria up to time of gold rushes; emphasis on Western District; role of Protectors; Native Police Corps; British law and its application in Victoria; white woman of Gippsland; includes separate index to all Aboriginal people in the text.

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians > Wars > Australia > New South Wales
• Aboriginal Australians > Australia > New South Wales > Government relations
• Aboriginal Australians > Australia > New South Wales > Social conditions
• Mining industry - Gold
• Law enforcement - Police - Native police
• Government policy - State and territory - Victoria
• Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
• Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes
• Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
• Aboriginal Australians > Government relations
• Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions
• Iwi taketake
• New South Wales > History
• Eastern Victoria / Gippsland (E Vic SJ55)
• Mount Rouse (W Vic SJ54-07)
• Loddon River (NW Vic SJ54-04, SI54-16)
• Goulburn River (N Vic SJ55-01)
• Western District (W Vic SJ54-07)
• Buntingdale (W Vic SJ54-12)
• Merri Creek / Northcote / Thornbury (Melbourne Vic SJ55-05)
• Narre Warren (Western Port Vic SJ55-09)
• Kooloor / Mount Rouse (W Vic SJ54-07)
• Gippsland / Eastern Victoria (E Vic SJ55)
• New South Wales

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 085561370X
• 9780855613709

LCCN

90206937

OCLC

• ocm22896482
• 22896482
• SCSB-1921512

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library