'Me write myself' : the free aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 / Leonie Stevens.

Author/creator Stevens, Leonie, 1962- author.
Format Book
PublicationClayton, Victoria, Australia : Monash University Publishing, 2017.
Descriptionxliv, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Subjects
Aboriginal Australians--Tasmania. --Wybalenna. --Correspondence.
Aboriginal Australians--Tasmania. --Wybalenna. --Social conditions.
Exiles--Australia. --Tasmania.
Aboriginal Australians--Australia. --Flinders Island (Tas.). --History.
Aboriginal Australians--Australia. --Flinders Island (Tas.). --Social conditions.
Flinders Island (Tas.)--Social conditions.
Wybalenna (Tas.)--History.
Wybalenna (Tas.)--Social conditions.

Summary 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [332]-342) and index.
ISBN9781925495638
ISBN1925495639