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History of the  Indigenous Peoples of Australia 'B':
Aboriginal people in twentieth century Australia.


This guide is designed to be used in conjunction with the Library's guide toAboriginal Studies ,
which includes links to many useful  internet resources.
For any further help in finding or using these resources please come in to see or contact your
Research Librarians for History and Politics,
Margaret Hosking, ph. 83033706......margaret.hosking@adelaide.edu.au
Peter Newnham, ph. 83131062......peter.newnham@adelaide.edu.au

 

CONTENTS

BARR SMITH 
LIBRARY
general and 
historical resources

DICTIONARIES AND
ENCYCLOPAEDIAS

BIOGRAPHY

CHRONOLOGY

FINDING 
JOURNAL ARTICLES

STATISTICS

SPECIFIC TOPICS:
Anthropologists
Assimilation
Art
Literature and 
creative writing
Religion
Land Rights, Justice,
Politics and Economics
Stolen Generation

OTHER BARR SMITH LIBRARY RESOURCES:

PARLIAMENTARY 
PAPERS

NEWSPAPERS
 

OTHER 
INSTITUTIONS,
ARCHIVES, 
and
WWW RESOURCES
 

CONTENTS

BARR SMITH 
LIBRARY
general and 
historical resources

DICTIONARIES AND
ENCYCLOPAEDIAS

BIOGRAPHY

CHRONOLOGY

FINDING 
JOURNAL ARTICLES

STATISTICS

SPECIFIC TOPICS:
Anthropologists
Assimilation
Art
Literature and 
creative writing
Religion
Land Rights, Justice,
Politics and Economics
Stolen Generation

OTHER BARR SMITH LIBRARY RESOURCES:

PARLIAMENTARY 
PAPERS

NEWSPAPERS
 

OTHER 
INSTITUTIONS,
ARCHIVES, 
and
WWW RESOURCES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

BARR SMITH 
LIBRARY
general and 
historical resources

DICTIONARIES AND
ENCYCLOPAEDIAS

BIOGRAPHY

CHRONOLOGY

FINDING 
JOURNAL ARTICLES

STATISTICS

SPECIFIC TOPICS:
Anthropologists
Assimilation
Art
Literature and 
creative writing
Religion
Land Rights, Justice,
Politics and Economics
Stolen Generation

OTHER BARR SMITH LIBRARY RESOURCES:

PARLIAMENTARY 
PAPERS

NEWSPAPERS
 

OTHER 
INSTITUTIONS,
ARCHIVES, 
and
WWW RESOURCES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

BARR SMITH 
LIBRARY
general and 
historical resources

DICTIONARIES AND
ENCYCLOPAEDIAS

BIOGRAPHY

CHRONOLOGY

FINDING 
JOURNAL ARTICLES

STATISTICS

SPECIFIC TOPICS:
Anthropologists
Assimilation
Art
Literature and 
creative writing
Religion
Land Rights, Justice,
Politics and Economics
Stolen Generation

OTHER BARR SMITH LIBRARY RESOURCES:

PARLIAMENTARY 
PAPERS

NEWSPAPERS
 

OTHER 
INSTITUTIONS,
ARCHIVES, 
and
WWW RESOURCES

 

 

 

 

 

Last update
Margaret Hosking
April 2009
  

 

This guide outlines the resources available mainly in the Barr Smith Library
but do not forget useful collections elsewhere.

BARR SMITH LIBRARY

GENERAL AND HISTORICAL RESOURCES

DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND ATLASES

Reference collection 994.0049915 H823e 
Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. 2 volumes. 1994
Useful introduction to a wide range of topics.
Volume 2 contains an extensive bibliography as well as chronologies, lists of legislation, statistics etc.
also availalbe online via Austrlai new Zealand Reference centre

Reference collection 994.0049915 P9274a
Concise companion to Aboriginal history, Malcolm D. Prentis, 2008.

Reference collection 994.0049915 A7911m
Macquarie atlas of Indigenous Australia : culture and society through space and time, ed. Bill Arthur, 2004.

Reference collection 305.899915 K64o    and        Main Collection  305.899915 K64o 
The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture,ed. S.Kleinert, 2000 

Reference collection 994 A9342 
Australians: a historical library. 1987. 
v.4 1938, v.5 From 1939, v.6 Historical Atlas, v.7. A guide to sources (Section IV Aborigines) 

Reference collection 994 J95a .2
Jupp, J. The Australian people: an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins. 2nd ed, 2001   

BIOGRAPHY

Reference collection 920 A937 
Australian dictionary of biography. v.1- and Index to vols. 1-12. 
Also online

Reference collection 305.420994 R129t 
Radi, H. 200 Australian women a redress anthology. 1988. 
For aborigines see entry in index (p.236).

CHRONOLOGY

Reference collection 305.89915 W914c 
Woolmer, G. A chronology of Aboriginal South Australia. 1986. 

Timeline - history of forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families.

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

To find journal articles , you need to search in bibliographies or in  databases which index journals.  Some valuable indexes and databases for this course are listed here:

Australian Public Affairs, the Australian social sciences database 
Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT. 

Mura  :  the on-line catalogue of AIATSIS,  which indexes books, journal articles and other types of materials 

Australia New Zealand Reference Centre
This database covers current events, business and popular culture with access to the full-text of Australasian and international magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information. Some scholarly journals included. Includes the Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Austrlai online.

For additional materials try: 

Reference collection 994.0016 I38 
Index to journal articles on Australian history
The first volume in this series covers material up to 1973. Subsequent volumes cover the period up to 1988. Each volume has a subject index entry for Aborigines. continued by: 

Reference collection 994.005 A93 
Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS) 1945- 
This is useful for finding contemporary journal articles pre-1978.

Reference collection 305.89915 G816 
Greenway, J. Bibliography of the Australian Aborigines & the native peoples of Torres Strait to 1959
This is the classic bibliography for early material about aborigines. 
Look in the subject index (at the back). 

Reference collection  305.89915 N277r 
Resource guide for Aboriginal studies and Torres Strait Islander studies. 1995 

Reference collection 305.89915 C752a 
Annotated bibliography of the Aboriginal homelands movement in Australia. 1986 

Reference collection 994.0049915 H236 
Handbook for Aboriginal and Islander history. 1979 

Reference collection 305.8991505 A935b 
Black Australia (1978) and Black Australia 2 (1985) 

Reference collection 305.89915 T368b.2 
Bibliographies on the Australian Aborigine. 2nd ed. 1987 

Reference collection 929.394 L933r 
Resources for Aboriginal family history. 1986 

Reference collection 994.0049915 S979a 
The aboriginal people of Victoria.  2 vols. 1993-1998. 
Vol. 1  Select bibliography of pre-1960 printed sources......
Vol. 2  Select bibliography of post-1959 printed sources......

Bibliographies specific to South Australia

Reference collection 305.89915 C848r.5 
Regional bibliography of the Aboriginals of South Australia 5th edition 1993 

572.06 A62.2 
Journal of the Anthropological Society of S.A. Volume 28 (1990) contains a Bibliography of the Kaurna people by T. Gara. 

Reference collection 994.004915 B863n 
Newspaper index : references to Aborigines in Adelaide newspapers, 1836-1940.

STATISTICS

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has a section dedicated to ABS & non-ABS  Indigenous Statistics

Some statistics are included at the end of Vol 2 of : 
Reference collection 994.0049915 H823e 
The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture
ed. D. Horton,, 2 vols. 1994 and don't forget  vol.10 of Australians: a historical library    Reference collection 994 A9342 

SPECIFIC TOPICS

See also the guide to resources for Aboriginal Studies ,  on the Library's website. 

Catalogue searching - some general tips for topics in this course:
It's best to search using the Guided Keywords search option. 
The subject term for indigenous Australians  is Aboriginal Australians

1. In guided keyword , enter  these search terms in the first search box:
aborigin? australia?  (and to the right choose : All of these)
2. In the second search box use one of the  terms or phrases as suggested below, according to your essay topic, again selecting Search by: Any keywords.

government relations 
government policy
politics and government
legal status
civil rights
social conditions
ethnic identity
treatment
race relations
cultural assimilation
assimilat?
land tenure
Some other seach terms that are useful for several topics in this course can be searched via Subject heading in Basic Search.
Australia - Race relations
Self-determination, National - Australia
ANTHROPOLOGISTS
Useful titles can be found by searching the catalogue in Guided Keyword, using the terms
aborigin? australia? (all of these)
and
Strehlow Elkin Basedow Berndt   (any of these)...or other anthropologists

OR
aborigin? anthropol? australia? (all of these)
and
government? policy (any of these)

ASSIMILATION POLICIES

It is important to remember that  attitudes and policies towards the indigenous people,  up to the late 1960s,  was assimilationist. So, most of what was written up until then reflects that outlook, but will not necessarily be found using the literal search term "assimilation". You will get a useful by searching  for some of the headings listed above and then sorting  your results by publication date.  You will be able to see from the titles the change in attitudes over time.

ART

To search the catalogue try the following in the Any keywords option on the Guided Keyword Search screen : 
aborigin?   artists 
Aborigin?   material      culture 
Aborigin?   antiquities 
Aborigin?   cultural     property
Rock    paintings
Bark painting

See also these other guides on the Library's website:
Art and artefacts section of the guide to resources for Aboriginal Studies
Studies in Australian Indigenous Art

Reference tools

Reference collection 305.899915 K64o            Main Collection  305.899915 K64o 
The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture,ed. S.Kleinert, 2000 

Reference collection 994 A93425 
Australians: a historical library. 1987. 
v.5 From 1939 (Section III Aboriginal Australians. ch. 9. Audiences for art) 

Reference collection 709.94 M359t 
Topical bibliography of Australian Aboriginal visual arts. 3rd ed. 1987. 

Databases

For an international view, look at  Art Abstracts

LITERATURE and CREATIVE WRITING

To search the catalogue try the following, using the Subject Heading option on the Guided Keyword Search screen: 

aborigin? Australian    literature 
aborigin?     biography 

Reference tools

Reference collection 820.9A W672o.2 
The Oxford companion to Australian literature by W. H. Wilde, 2nd ed.1994. 

Reference collection  820.9A S394b 
Schurmann-Zeggel, H .  Black Australian literature : a bibliography of fiction, poetry, drama, oral traditions and non-fiction, including critical commentary, 1900-1991. 1997 

Databases

AUSTLIT: Australian literature gateway
Indexes creative and critical writings on Australian literature.
You can search for writings about specific authors or works and/or all sorts of topics including combinations such as aborigines/biography, aboriginality, dispossession etc. etc. 

RELIGION

Reference collection 299.92 S971a 
Aboriginal religions in Australia: a bibliography. 1991. 

Reference collection 305.89915 M472a 
Aborigines and the issues: information and resource guide on aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues past and present with particular emphasis on the need for a Christian response. comp. T. Mayne 1986 

LAND RIGHTS, JUSTICE , POLITICS, ECONOMICS

To search the catalogue try the following, using the Subject Heading option on the Guided Keyword Search screen:.
aborigin?    land  tenure 
aborigin? australia?    land tenure    History 
Native title 
Australia. High Court. Mabo and others v. State of Queensland.... 
Australia. High Court. Wik peoples v. State of Queensland......

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission - Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander social justice.

346.940432 G742m Multimedia collection
Mabo: the native title revolution

A CD linking to a website where some of the information is free to air.

History of the indigenous vote,  Australian Electoral Commission, 2002.

333.20994 A154  and  301.4506 A939 30 in Main collection
Aboriginal land rights : a handbook, Nicolas  Peterson,  Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1981

Reference collection 994.0016 C761 
Contemporary Australian issues (select bibliography) 1993
No. 1 chapter 6 Land rights.

Reference collection 342.0872 M131ab  also in main collection
Aborigines and the law : a digest. 1987 
(a) a list of aboriginal-related legislation of the Commonwealth, States & Territories 
(b) bibliography of books, articles, Royal Commissions, parliamentary inquiries etc. 
(c)a list of Supreme Court & higher court cases

Reference collection 333.20994 J77a 
Aboriginal land rights legislation. 1983 
This is really a guide to demonstrate the range of publications (eg. Votes & Proceedings, Journals of the Senate) associated with the development & passage of Commonwealth legislation which uses the example of aboriginal land rights (foreshadowed in 1972) as its example. 

Reference collection 305.89915 H431a 
Aboriginal criminal justice : a bibliographical guide.1986 
A chronological listing from 1950 of both books and journal articles. 

305.8991505 A9385Cd 165 
Davis, R. Homelands and resource agencies since the Blanchard report : a review of the literature and an annotated bibliography. 1998. 

Allen, L. M.Aborigines in the economy : a select annotated bibliography of   policy-relevant research, 1985-90. 1991 
Reference collection  330.99405 A9385Cr 1 
Roach, L. M.   Indigenous Australians in the economy : abstracts of research, 1991-92, 1994. 
Reference collection  330.99405 A9385Cr 4 
Roach, L. M.  Indigenous Australians in the economy : abstracts of research, 1993-94, 1995. 
Reference collection  330.99405 A9385Cr 9 

STOLEN CHILDREN
To search the catalogue, try the following - search by Subject heading option on the Guided Keyword Search  screen 
aborigin?  australian?     Children. 
aborigin?  australian?     Removal. 
aborigin?  australian?     Child welfare. 
aborigin?  australian ?    Government policy.

Stolen Generations Victoria - Resources. 

National Library of Australia...."Where can I find information on the Stolen Generations?"

Bringing them Home - The "Stolen children" report 1997 , from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

OTHER BARR SMITH LIBRARY RESOURCES

MANUSCRIPTS

The library's Special Collections has considerable resources including the Daisy Bates papers

PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS

Parliamentary debates (Hansard) record what was actually said in Parliament, and as such are a rich source for historical research. 
Parliamentary papers publish reports that are tabled in Parliament. 
These can be individual reports on an issue or the annual reports of state or commonwealth officials or departments .
There are indexes for each parliamentary session either at the beginning or the end of the volumes and there are also separately published indexes which are shelved in the Reference Collection. 
Parliamentary publications in the Barr Smith Library: a finding list will assist you in finding these items.

NEWSPAPERS

We hold a large number of South Australian and interstate newspapers on microfilm. 
Indexes are rare, but for this topic we are very fortunate to have: 

Reference collection 994.004915/B863n 
Newspaper index: references to Aborigines in Adelaide newspapers 1836-1940. 1989 
The newspapers included in this index are included in the listing below. 

There is also: 

MICROFICHE PER 237 
Australian Aborigines in the news [microform] 1981-1992, and index. 

Full text access to  recent Australian and overseas newspapers  is available through  Factiva

South Australian Newspapers ( excluding 19th century titles)

Advertiser (Adelaide). 1858 + MF PER 1

Advertiser (Adelaide): Index. 1932 - 1935. Reference collection 05 A24

Bunyip (Gawler, South Australia). 1863 - 1950. MF PER 124

Exchange (Mount Gambier, South Australia). 27 Sep.1912 - 8 Oct.1942. MF PER 125

Express (Adelaide, 1902 - 1951). 7 Jan.1933 - 31 Mar.1951. RB 05 E97

Express and Telegraph (Adelaide). Jan.1867 - July 1923. MF PER 154

Northern Argus (Clare, South Australia). 1869 - 1950 MF PER 97

Observer (Adelaide). 1 July 1843 - 19 Feb.1931. MF PER 76

Observer (Adelaide). 1843, 1844, 1846, 1848-1850, 1852 - June 1928. RB 05 O139

Observer (Adelaide): Index. 1880 - 1908. MF PER 76 Reel 121

Register (Adelaide). 1836 - 1930. MF PER 2

Register (Adelaide). 1836 - 1930 [imperfect]. RB 05 R337

Southern Argus (Strathalbyn, South Australia). 1866 - 1950. MF PER 98

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project from the National Library.
Currently under development. More than 2 million pages have been scanned, and the fulltext will be searchable.
A list of the titles and date ranges scanned is available from the Selected Newspapers page.........only a few years for each title at this stage.
Use with care: check coverage.  

OTHER INSTITUTIONS,  ARCHIVES AND WWW RESOURCES

Aboriginal Affairs and Reconcilliation Division
AARD is the South Australian Government's lead agency on Aboriginal affairs matters. Situated in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

South Australian Museum
Family history records and photographsare housed in the SA Museum's Archives.
Contact the Aboriginal Family History Officer on 82077381 or 82077375

State Records of South Australia 
Especially their Aboriginal services section. 
Holdings listed in: 
Reference collection 994.0049915 G946 
Guide to records relating to Aboriginal people. 5 vols + 2indexes. 1988-1991 
Provides a comprehensive guide to official government records held by State Records (S.A.) 

State Library, especially their Indigenous Services and Collections,  and South  Australiana which is listed in their catalogue.

and the South Australiana source sheet on David Unaipon.

Reference collection 305.89915 M888ga 
Guide to archival records held in the Mortlock Library of South Australiana relating to Aboriginal people. 1990 
Reference collection 305.89915 M888g 
Guide to publications held in the Mortlock Library of South Australiana relating to Aboriginal people .1990 
(These lists are not comprehensive - pay the  State Llibrary a visit) 

National Archives and Indigenous records section. 
Reference collection 305.89915 A9382a 
Aboriginal & Torres Strait islander people in Commonwealth Records. 1993 
A guide to the records of the Commonwealth government (especially between 1901-1962 ) which are held in the Australian Archives, ACT Regional Office

Australian War Memorial

Lutheran Archives, Bowden.
Reference collection  994.0049915 C968g 
Guide to Records of Indigenous Australians in the Lutheran Archives.1999 

Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Studies (AIATSIS) 
and  searching their on-line cataloge, Mura.

GROUND TRUTH :a community resource guide  to the human & environmental  history of South Australia,
which has an Aboriginal history section 

Click here for more www resources  from the Aboriginal Studies resource guide.