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Robinson, George Augustus, 1791-1866. Chief Protector's Journal (abridged) of an expedition to the Aborigines of the Eastern interior, commencing April and terminating October 1844.

Title: Chief Protector's Journal (abridged) of an expedition to the Aborigines of the Eastern interior, commencing April and terminating October 1844. 1844.

p.704; Meeting with natives; p.704-5; Murder by natives in retaliation for killing of natives by whites; p.727-8; Burial rites; p.722-3; Description of sketches on sheets of bark near Turrer River.

ArchivalResource: p. 699-759.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271765006 View

Clark, Ian D., 1958-. Thats my country belonging to me : Aboriginal land tenure and dispossession in nineteenth century Western Victoria / Ian D. Clark.

Title: Thats my country belonging to me : Aboriginal land tenure and dispossession in nineteenth century Western Victoria / Ian D. Clark. 1992.

A historical geography of dispossession in which social organisation boundaries and nomenclature of clans of Dhauwurd wurrung, Djab wurrung, Djadja wurrung, Djargurd wurrung, Gadabanud, Girai wurrung, Gulidjan, Jardwadjali, Watha wurrung and Wergaia were reconstructed from historical sources, mostly Robinson papers and some linguistic comparison; documented effects of dispossession on clan estates from European occupation of land giving examples of resulting negative and positive race relations and removal of clans to Lake Condah and Framlingham; discussed inter-clan conflict and enmity of local clans to foreign Aboriginal people; gave examples of squatters who massacred, intimidated and excluded clans from their lands and resources and also sqatters who welcomed and employed clans; provided much biographical and place name information relating to clans; appended a register of clans of Western Victoria.

ArchivalResource: 2 v., [xii], 363 leaves, [3] leaves of plates; ill., maps, ports.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271757387 View

La Trobe, Charles Joseph, 1801-1875. Correspondence.

Title: Correspondence. 1839-1864.

Includes correspondence with G.A. Robinson, 1842-1848; and letters to Sir Edward Deas Thomson, the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales; Sir George Gipps, the Governor of New South Wales; George Augustus Robinson, the Chief Protector of Aborigines at Port Phillip; and miscellaneous. The letters discuss La Trobe's arrival in Port Phillip; relations between Aborigines and European settlers; land sales; the incorporation of Melbourne; the exploration of Gippsland; public works; and government appointments and resignations.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/222094264 View

Casson, Marjory R. (Marjory Rose). Tasmanian Aboriginal people.

Title: Tasmanian Aboriginal people.

An account of the discovery, life and extinction of the Tasmanian Aborigines, including accounts of expeditions which visited Tasmania between 1772 and 1802, origins and physical anthropology of the Tasmanian people, hostility and aggression between aborigines and settlers, canoe-making, basketry, weapons, food-gathering, customs, habitations, ceremonies, Government administration, the "Black Line," 1830, George Augustus Robinson and native welfare, Trugananna, William Lanne (or Lanney), re-settlement on Swan, Bruni, Guncarriage and Flinders Islands, diseases and medical aid, and the last Aborigines on Kangaroo Island.

ArchivalResource: 234 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225817402 View

Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831-1916. Map of the military district, Kansas and the territories / Maj. Gen. G.M. Dodge, commanding, 1866 ; executed under the direction of Maj. Geo. T. Robinson, Chf. Engr. ; drawn by T.H. Williams.

Title: Map of the military district, Kansas and the territories / Maj. Gen. G.M. Dodge, commanding, 1866 ; executed under the direction of Maj. Geo. T. Robinson, Chf. Engr. ; drawn by T.H. Williams. 1866.

Map of the West (U.S.) roughly bounded by Idaho, the Dakotas, Utah and Kansas. Compiled under the direction of U.S. Major General Grenville Mellen Dodge in 1866, the same year as his appointment as Chief Engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Shows extent of UPRR construction, numerous U.S. military posts, army expedition routes variously dated 1843-1860, wagon roads, and trails. Includes distance tables.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 1,193 x 1,682 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37977721 View

Dixon, R. M. W. (Robert Malcolm Ward), 1939-. Aboriginal vocabularies : south-east Australia : linguistic data extracted by R.M.W. Dixon / by R.M.W. Dixon, 1973.

Title: Aboriginal vocabularies : south-east Australia : linguistic data extracted by R.M.W. Dixon / by R.M.W. Dixon, 1973. 1973.

Notes on linguistic data in Robinsons Journals and Aboriginal vocabularies, giving relevant Victorian and New South Wales languages; to accompany MF 202.

ArchivalResource: 11 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271767717 View

Ryan, Lyndall, 1943-. The Aborigines in Tasmania, 1800-1974 and their problems with the Europeans.

Title: The Aborigines in Tasmania, 1800-1974 and their problems with the Europeans. 1975.

Historical narrative of Tasmanian race relations; institutionalisation of Tasmanians and development of part Aboriginal society; dispossession of Aborigines from the land by convict and agricultural settlements; Aboriginal response to dispossession; G.A. Robinson at Flinders Island, Cape Barren Island, Oyster Cove.

ArchivalResource: viii, 446 l.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271760718 View

Miller, Linn. Meeting at Bark Hut : re-tracing and re-telling the story of the 'Friendly Mission' - northeast Aboriginal clancountry, Tasmania 1830 / Linn Miller.

Title: Meeting at Bark Hut : re-tracing and re-telling the story of the 'Friendly Mission' - northeast Aboriginal clancountry, Tasmania 1830 / Linn Miller. 2008.

Annotation pending.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol. (various pagings) : ill., facsims, maps, ports + 1 DVD, 1 CD in slipcases.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/756819233 View

Burnett, J. Testimonial, government notice, Col. Sec. Office, Tasmania, 1831 February 19.

Title: Testimonial, government notice, Col. Sec. Office, Tasmania, 1831 February 19.

The Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania commends the services of Mr. G.A. Robinson on his "Conciliatory Mission to the Aborigines." For his services Robinson would receive a salary and 2,560 acres of land. Printed signature of J. Burnett, colonial secretary.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf : printed broadside ; 22 x 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35225070 View

Coutts, P. J. F. (Peter J. F.). Bob and Jack / by Peter Coutts and Jane Wesson, 1984.

Title: Bob and Jack / by Peter Coutts and Jane Wesson, 1984. 1984.

History of five Tasmanian Aborigines, Maulboyheenner (Bob), Tunnerminnerwait (Jack), Truganini, Maria Mathilda and Fanny; their involvement with George Augustus Robinson in removal of Tasmanian Aborigines to Flinders Island and later association with him at Port Phillip; their attacks on settlers at Westernport and account of their capture from extracts from Journal of William Thomas 1841; trial and execution of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner in Melbourne, 1842.

ArchivalResource: 1 box; ill., maps, ports.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271768630 View

Ricketts family. Family history material.

Title: Family history material. ca. 1900-1970.

Includes family tree of the Ricketts family, created in 1970; photographs of four Ricketts brothers ca. 1900, with annotations on the reverse; and composition by Stephen Marsh Ricketts "The Blacks of Tasmania", copied into notebook ca. 1909.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223050297 View

Cameron, Patsy. Telling places in country : Mannalargenna's country : in grandfather's footsteps; through grandfather's eyes : re-tracing and re-telling the story of the 'Friendly mission' - northeast Aboriginal clancountry, Tasmania 1830-1831.

Title: Telling places in country : Mannalargenna's country : in grandfather's footsteps; through grandfather's eyes : re-tracing and re-telling the story of the 'Friendly mission' - northeast Aboriginal clancountry, Tasmania 1830-1831. 2009.

Annotation pending.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (various pagings) : col. ill., maps + CD-Rom.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/751952810 View