TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stevens,Leonie
TI  - 'Me write myself': the free Aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 
T2  - Australian history
SN  - 9781925495638
U1  - 305.89915 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Clayton, Victoria
PB  - Monash University Publishing
KW  - Bullrer.
KW  - Rolepa.
KW  - King Tippo.
KW  - Robinson, George Augustus,
KW  - Jeanneret, Henry.
KW  - Clark, Robert,
KW  - Arthur, Walter George,
KW  - Arthur, Mary Anne,
KW  - Wooraddy,
KW  - Planobeena.
KW  - King Alexander.
KW  - McSweeney, Hannah.
KW  - Smith, Fanny,
KW  - Friend Inquiry
KW  - History - Frontier conflict - Tasmania - Black War
KW  - aiatsiss
KW  - Politics and Government - Political action
KW  - Politics and Government - Political action - Non-Indigenous
KW  - Politics and Government - Political action - Petitions
KW  - Race relations - Violent
KW  - Religions - Christianity - Missions
KW  - Settlement and contacts - Government settlements, reserves
KW  - Aboriginal Tasmanians
KW  - Relocation
KW  - Tasmania
KW  - Wybalenna
KW  - Exiles
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Flinders Island
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Australia
KW  - Flinders Island (Tas.)
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Wybalenna (Tas.)
KW  - Flinders island
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Removal
KW  - Wybalenna (Flinders Island Tas SK55-02)
KW  - Flinders Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)
KW  - Australian
KW  - Indigenous Heritage
KW  - Indigenous collection
KW  - Records and correspondence
KW  - Personal correspondence
N1  - Contains biographical information; Includes bibliographical references (pages [332]-342) and index;  contents note: ch. 1 40,000 Years to Exile -- ch. 2 Exiled to Great Island -- ch. 3 The Promise of Wybalenna -- ch. 4 The Battle for VDL Souls -- ch. 5 Empire, Agency and a Humble Petition -- ch. 6 Defeating Wybalenna
N2  - Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race ... The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen’s Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian, and world, history. The men, women and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed to speak for themselves. This book changes that.  Penned by the exiles during their fifteen years at the settlement called Wybalenna, items in the Flinders Island Chronicle, sermons, letters and petitions offer a compelling corrective to traditional portrayals of a hopeless, dispossessed, illiterate people’s final days. The exiles did not see themselves as prisoners, but as a Free People. Seen through their own writing, the community at Wybalenna was vibrant, complex and evolving. Rather than a depressed people simply waiting for death, their own words reveal a politically astute community engaged in a fifteen-year campaign for their own freedom: one which was ultimately successful.    ‘Me Write Myself’ is a compelling story that will profoundly affect understandings of Tasmanian and Australian history
ER  -