WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL INDIGENOUS – 

        This book is a powerful and moving history of Aboriginal people in the south west of Western Australia covering a time when they experienced profound changes in their way of life and status in the community. Their independent life in the bush, on stations and on their own small farms was progressively eroded by discriminatory laws, bureaucratic interference and overt racism. The Aborigines’ dignity and strength as they battled to maintain their independence and pride offer lessons for all people.

During the period from 1900 to 1936 Aborigines in the south west of Western Australia experienced profound changes in their way of life and their status in the wider community. At the turn of the century most were economically independent; living in the bush, on station land, or their own small farming blocks they found some degree of acceptance. By the early 1930s however they had been reduced to the status of second-class citizens subject to bursts of overt racism.

This book examines the interconnected factors contributing to a bureaucratic process of pauperisation, institutionalisation and exclusion from the wider community with its associated effects on the Aborigines’ status and their way of life.

xviii, 413 p. : ill., facsims., 2 maps, ports ; 22 cm. 2nd revised edition

Deterioration of economic conditions from independence to poverty; government policy, protection, assimilation; Aborigines Act 1905; employment, training, permits; education, exclusion; A.O. Neville; native settlements; childrens homes; institutional life; identity; reserves, town camps; missionaries; Depression, poverty; protest, resistance; Moseley Royal Commission; Native Administration Act 1936; discrimination; racism; Carrolup, Moore River, Gnowangerup, Beverley, Narrogin, Kellerberrin, Katanning, Brookton.

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