Aboriginal Australians

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  • LCSH, LC control no.: sh 85009602, accessed online 21-Feb-2025.

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Hierarchical terms

Aboriginal Australians

Equivalent terms

Aboriginal Australians

  • UF Aboriginals, Australian
  • UF Aborigines, Australian
  • UF Australian aboriginal people
  • UF Australian aboriginals
  • UF Australian aborigines
  • UF Australians, Aboriginal
  • UF Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians)
  • UF Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians)

Associated terms

Aboriginal Australians

525 Archival description results for Aboriginal Australians

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Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation Ephemera

  • FVF766
  • File
  • 1990-1999

Brochure and bumper sticker produced by Link-Up (Qld), the Brisbane-based organisation dedicated to reconnecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with family and information that may relate to their family history.

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation

Link-Up (Qld) information brochure.

Trifold print brochure with information on the services and aims of Link-Up (Qld). Features eleven photographs, black and white, of various unidentified children and adolescents, as well as a black and white photograph of a group of Indigenous Australian children with two Indigenous Australian women credited to the John Oxley Library. Also features an artwork by Ted Watson that shows concentric bands of brown and red lined with dots and intersected by yellow flowing lines containing blue and purple human figures, accompanied by the artist's description of the meaning of the art.

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation

Link-Up (Qld) sticker.

Bumper sticker that reads 'Link-Up' in block letters along with the Link-Up logo from the time, an outline of Queensland, yellow, against two concentric circles, one red and one black.

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation

The attempted extermination of the Aboriginal population in colonial Queensland

Pamphlet detailing the history of white colonialist violence and displacement of Aboriginal Australians in Queensland, and how Aboriginal Australians continue to face inequitable treatment and discrimination. The pamphlet uses this history as a framework to contextualise contemporary activism, specifically the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, and requests those interested in participating in the Embassy to contact the Black Rights Committee. Undated, but is assumed to be from 1972, as the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is spoken of as a current event.

Black Rights Committee

Black Women's Action

A commemorative newsletter published by the Black Women's Action Committee, commemorating the anniversary 1787, the last year of Black freedom and self-government in Australia and to mark the twentieth anniversary of the recognition of Aboriginal citizenship of Australia. The newsletter also gives a history of the Committee and their advocacy and objectives

Black Women's Action Committee

To those responsible for the welfare of the Aboriginal people on Cherbourg Reserve

A copy of a written statement addressed to ‘Those Responsible for the Welfare of the Aboriginal People of Cherbourg Reserve’, in which a resident expresses dissatisfaction with the conduct of an Aboriginal Councillor on the Cherbourg Reserve, who is reported to have assaulted another member of the Reserve with his son. The statement is accompanied by a form letter signed by Denis Walker, who states that Davidson is concerned her statement will result in discriminatory retaliation against her by the administrations of the Aboriginal and Islander Affairs Act of 1965. The statement also contains a list of fifteen individuals who have been identified as being responsible for the welfare of Aboriginal residents of the Cherbourg Reserve, consisting of politicians as well as high-ranking figures in philanthropic and advocacy organisations.

Act Confrontation Movement (Brisbane, Qld.)

Kempsey correspondence

Original folder (now discarded) labelled Kempsey (NSW) and listing Macksville, Tilba Tilba and Wallaga Lake. There are fifty-two letters in the file, most of which are undated. There are twenty-six letters from Caroline Tennant-Kelly to Timothy Kelly, many with 'Kempsey' in the top right-hand corner and most handwritten. There are another five letters from Caroline to Timothy that are identified as being written from Wallaga Lake. In her letters Timonth, Caroline often signs off as 'Bill'. There are nine letters from Timothy to Caroline. There are twelve letters between the Department the Anthropology, Professor Elkin and Caroline Tennant-Kelly, dated 1936 including a letter of introduction for Caroline Kelly from the Secretary, Office of Board for Protection of Aborigines, 22 Apr 1936.

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file:
Miss Andrews
?? Bairds
Mrs Carter
?? Chapman
Mrs ?? Geddes
Mrs ?? Hough
Miss ?? Pearce
Mr ?? Watkin
Dolly Button
Dorothy Bull
Duchess
Eric Rasden
Ethel Gabriel
Frank Summerville
Lizzie (Sandy or Brown?)
Jocie Duhig
Mr and Mrs Jacobs (mission manager and wife?)
Madam von Willer
Young Glover

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of Bora Law and ceremonial and ritual practice. It also may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Elkin, A. P. (Adolphus Peter), 1891-1979

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