WEB RESOURCES
See also Aboriginal
Studies: a guide to library resources on the Library website.
Australian Institute for
Aboriginal
and Torres Strait islander Studies (AIATSIS)
and searching their on-line cataloge, Mura.
Documenting
a democracy:
Australia's story
This is a wonderful site from the Australian Archives, containing
primary
documents.
A search under "aborigines" or "natives" reveals full text
documents
such as the
Letters Patent establishing the Province of South Australia 19
February
1836 (UK)
and the Aboriginal Protection Act 1869 (Vic) and
many more.
Norman
B. Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes
CATALOGUE
Use library catalogue from the home page
Use Basic search and select these terms from
"subject heading".
Aboriginal
Australians
Aboriginal
Australians........browse subheadings such as
Missions, Government
policy, Legal status,
laws, etc
Aboriginal
Australians South
Australia.........browse subheadings such as Missions,
Government
policy, Legal status,
laws, etc
Other more specific subject
heading
searches are:
AboriginalAustralians
- Child Welfare
Children -
AboriginalAustralian
Children -
AboriginalAustralian- Government Policy
AboriginalAustralians
- Treatment - History
The above terms also work well in Guided
keyword search , but make sure you use
Aboriginal
Australian? (as a phrase)
Guided
keyword is also a good way
to search for names of
tribes: eg Kaurna.
REFERENCE TOOLS
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
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.
Also available online
This provides a very useful introduction to a
wide variety
of topics. There are see also references and suggestions
for
further reading from the extensive bibliography at the end of
vol.
2 where you will also find useful chronologies, lists of legislation,
statistics,
etc. in the appendices.
Reference collection 305.899915 K64o
Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture, ed.
Sylvia Kleinert,
2000.
Ref 994 A93425
Australians: a historical library. 1987.
v.1. To 1788
v.2. Australians 1838
v.3. Australians 1888
v.6 Historical Atlas
v.7. A guide to sources (Section IV
Aborigines)
v.10 Historical statistics.
Reference collection 305.89915 H482a
Helon, G. W. Aboriginal Australia : register of tribe, clan,
horde, linguistic group, language names and AIATSIS language
codes
- including synonyms, misnomers and approximate locations.
1998.
Reference collection 994 J95a.2
Jupp, J. The Australian people: an encyclopedia of the nation, its
people and their origins. 2nd ed. 2001.
See The indigenous people pp 4-15,
and Part
II Indigenous Australians pp 87-162
Reference collection 305.89915 T588a
Tindale, N. B. Aboriginal
tribes of Australia. 1974
Reference collection 994.2 C99 1978
Cyclopedia of South Australia. 1907. For
aborigines see vol 1, pp.21-40, 398-99
Multimedia
collection 994.0049915 F935.D
Frontier [computer file] : stories from white Australia's
forgotten
war.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1997.
Biography
Reference collection 920 A937
Australian dictionary of
biography.
v.1- and Index.to vols. 1-12.
Also available online
A few aborigines are included (check their names
in the index)
Also look in the Index on p.256 for
Protectors
of Aborigines.
Reference collection 305.420994 R129t
Radi, H. 200 Australian women a redress anthology. 1988.
For aborigines see entry in index (p.236)
Atlases
Norman
B. Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes
Reference collection 912.9423/G852a
c.2 Oversize
Atlas of South Australia ed.T.Griffin.
1986
see pp. 2-4.
Reference collection 994.0049915 A7911m
Macquarie atlas of Indigenous Australia : culture and society through space and time, ed. Bill Arthur and Frances Morphy, 2005.
Chronology
Reference collection 305.89915 W914c
Woolmer, G. A chronology of Aboriginal South Australia. 1986.
Bibliographies and indexes for
finding journal articles etc.
At APA-FT you can find citations from 1978-
Some full text is available form 1995-, but you may still need to search the catalogue for titles of print publications.
Mura . This is the catalogue of AIATSIS (The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies), and is an invaluable index of books, journal articles and other types of materials. No full text - you will need to search for book and journal titles in our library catalogue.
For older articles written up to
1988:
Reference collection
994.0016 I38
Index to journal articles on Australian history
The first volume in this series covers material up to 1973, and
subsequent
volumes cover the period up to 1988.
Each volume has a subject index entry for Aborigines.
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.
Note the subject index at the back.
Reference collection 929.394 L933r
Resources for Aboriginal family history. 1986
Reference collection 305.89915 T368b.2
Bibliographies on the Australian Aborigine. 2nd ed.
1987.
South Australia
Reference collection 305.89915 C848r.5
Regional bibliography of the Aboriginals of South Australia.
5th ed. 1993
572.06 A62.2
Journal
of the Anthropological Society of South Australia
Volume 28 (1990) contains a Bibliography of the Kaurna people
by T. Gara.
Reference collection 994.0049915 B864n
Newspaper index : references to Aborigines in Adelaide
newspapers,
1836-1940.
Victoria
Reference collection 994.0049915 S797a
The aboriginal people of Victoria: select bibliography of
pre-1960
printed sources in the Collections of the State Library of Victoria.
1993
Reference collection 994.0049915 S797a 2
The aboriginal people of Victoria: select bibliography of post
1959
printed sources in the Collections of the State Library of Victoria.
1998
History
Reference collection 994.0049915 H236
Handbook for Aboriginal & Islander history.
1979
Reference collection 994.230016 C953.2
Crowley F.K. South Australian history: a survey for research
students. 1966.
For aborigines see ch.19.
Reference collection 994.230016 S72
List of books, pamphlets, parliamentary papers, newspapers,
maps,
etc. published before and during 1845 dealing with South Australia and
chronologically arranged.
Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia. 1917.
Reference collection 919.4 M161a
McLaren I.F. Australian explorers by land sea and air 1788-1988.
9 vols. 1988.
For Aborigines see Index in vol.9
pp.252-253.
Education
Reference collection 370.9942 M959e
Mullner, S.E. Education in South Australia 1875-1975: a bibliography.
1975.
For Aborigines see ch. V, section 7, p. 47-50
Explorers
Reference collection 919.4 M161a
Australian explorers by sea, land and air, 1788-1988, Ian F. McLaren, 9 vols.
Law
Reference collection 305.89915 H431a
Aboriginal criminal justice : a bibliographical guide.
1986.
Section 1 lists historical materials.
Reserve collection 342.0872 M131ab
Aborigines and the law : a digest. 1987
Consists of 3 sections :
(a) a list of aboriginal-related legislation of
the Commonwealth,
States & Territories
(b)a bibliography of books, articles, Royal
Commissions,
parliamentary inquiries etc.
(c)a list of Supreme Court & higher court
cases.
Religion and Culture
Reference collection 299.92 S971a
Swain, T. Aboriginal religions in Australia.: a
bibliographical
survey 1991
Reference collection 709.94 M359t
Topical bibliography of Australian Aboriginal visual arts.
3rd ed. 1987
Statistics
Some statistics are included in :
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.
Another quick and easy source is vol.10 of Australians: a
historical
library.
FINDING SOUTH AUSTRALlAN
PRIMARY SOURCES
Beyond the Barr Smith Library
Documenting
a democracy:
Australia's story
This is a wonderful site from the Australian Archives containing
primary
documents.
A search under "aborigines" or "natives" reveals full text
documents
such as the
Letters Patent establishing the Province of South Australia 19
February
1836 (UK)
and the Aboriginal Protection Act 1869 (Vic) and
many more.
South
Australian Museum
State Records , especially their Aboriginal Services.
Reference collection 994.0049915 /G946.
Guide to records relating to Aboriginal people. 5
vols.
1988-91.
Main collection 994.0049915 R275l
"A little flour and a few
blankets" : an administrative history of Aboriginal affairs in South
Australia, 1834-2000. State Records of South Australia, 2002
State
Library
Within its various collections, the State Library has
published material, archival records, photographs, films, sound
recordings and art works relating to Aboriginal Australians in South
Australia. Their website includes
Fact Sheets on topics such as:
Aboriginal Family History
Adnyamathanha people
Arts - Literature
Arts - Performance Art
Kaurna people
Maps of Aboriginal Australia
Missions in South Australia
Ngarrindjeri people
Pitjantjatjara people
Stolen Generation
In addition there are the
State Library catalogues:
The State
Library has three online catalogue/databases which can be searched
together in Metafind
or separately.
The Library
catalogue lists published material in all formats held in the
Library. (not necessarily primary sources)
Primary sources can be located in either of these two databases
The South
Australiana database lists photographs, including over 62,000
viewable digitised images, other pictorial items, ephemera and
references to selected articles. The Archival
database lists unpublished material held in personal, society and
business categories, including mission records, as well as oral
histories from interviews with Aboriginal people.
Note that the State Library is not a lending library, but
some of the
books listed in these bibliographies are also held in the Barr Smith
Library, so it's worth checking back to our catalogue. The BSL holds
two guides that list resources in the State Library. Check the listed
items to the State Library catalogues.
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
The Mortlock library collections are now part of the State Library and
searchable via their catalogues.
Lutheran Archives
Reference collection 994.0049915 C968g
Guide to Records of Indigenous Australians in the Lutheran
Archives.
1999
Northern Territory
Tracking Family - A Guide to Aboriginal Records Relating to the Northern Territory
a guide from the National Archives.
also in print in the Reference collection 929.39429 N2771t
Finding primary sources in the Barr Smith
Library
The library's Special
Collections has considerable resources including the
papers
of Daisy Bates.
MICROFILM 21003
Aborigines Protection Society (London). Transactions, 1837-1909.
In multimedia with an index shelved by microfilm
number at the end of the Reserve Collection.
MICROFILM PER 314
Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Original correspondence, South Australia [CO 13]. 1831-1900
Correspondence of the Colonial Office consisting of despatches and their enclosures, reports and other papers from Governors, letters from public offices in the United Kingdom and letters from individuals, societies and companies in the United Kingdom and South Australia.
South Australian Government Gazette. 1846-
328.94206 S726g
[1846-1900 kept in Special Collections on Level 4 South]
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
(proceedings).
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 listed in the booklet
which
are shelved in the Reference Collection.
Please
note. Legislation
(Acts and Bills) can be found in the Law
Library, but check Austlii , which contains the full text of SA
Consolidated Acts. These are Acts which have been reprinted,
with all their amendments. Several consolidated South
Australian Acts are relevant to Aboriginal history.
South Australia. Parliament. Debates. 1857-
328.94206 S72 also on MICROFILM 13540-13546
South Australian Parliamentary papers etc.
South Australia. Parliament. Proceedings.
1847-
328.94206 S72p
– – another copy 1857 - 1901. MICROFILM 13499-13539
Indexes
South Australia.Parliament.
Index
to Parliamentary Papers 1857 -
1975.
Reference collection 328.94206 S72p
South Australia. Parliament. Index to the
Proceedings of the
Legislative Council, 1857 - 1915.
Reference collection 328.94206 S72p
British Parliamentary Papers
During the colonial period much of the administrative and legal
reporting
and debating was carried on in the British Parliament, which makes
these
papers a very rich source of information and opinion.
The most comprehensive sources for subject access to the 19th century
Parliamentary Papers are:
Reference collection 328.42 C666s
Cockton, P Subject catalogue of the House of Commons
Parliamentary
papers 1801-1900. 1988. 5v.
This catalogue provides direct access via subject to the microfiche
set of Parliamentary Papers at MICROFICHE PER 11
and
328.4206 G78ppI
Great Britain. Parliament.Parliamentary Papers Irish
University Press series.
This series arranges the papers by topics.
Try sections such as COLONIES , and, to lesser extent, ABORIGINES.
The volumes can be distinguished from the other editions of papers
not only by their call number, but by their green binding.
Further details may be found in Parliamentary
publications in the Barr Smith Library: a finding list.
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 994.0049915 B863n
Newspaper index: references to Aborigines in Adelaide
newspapers
1836-1940. 1989
South Australia newspapers 1836-1911 in the BSL
Adelaide Chronicle and South Australian
Literary Record.
Dec.1839 - May
1842
MICROFILM 15468
Adelaide Examiner. Nov.1841
- June
1845.
MICROFILM 15467
Adelaide Express. Nov.1863 -
Dec.1866.
MF PER 153
Adelaide Independent and Cabinet of
Amusement.
5 Aug. - 18 Nov.
1841.
MICROFILM 18278
Adelaide Morning Chronicle. 1
Dec.1851 -
29 Mar.1853.
MICROFILM 19819
Adelaide Times. Oct. 1848 -
May
1858.
MICROFILM 17738-17756
Advertiser (Adelaide). 1858
+
MF PER 1
Bunyip (Gawler, South Australia).
1863 -
1950.
MF PER 124
Chronicle (Adelaide). July
1858 - Sep.1975
[imperfect]. RB
05 C557
Express (Adelaide, 1863 - 1923) see
Adelaide Express
Express and Telegraph (Adelaide).
Jan.1867
- July 1923. MF PER 154
[Merger of: Daily Telegraph (Adelaide) and
Adelaide Express]
Northern Argus (Clare, South
Australia).
1869 -
1950
MF PER 97
Observer (Adelaide). 1 July 1843 - 19
Feb.1931.
MF PER 76
[From 1843 to 1906 it was called Adelaide
Observer]
Observer (Adelaide). 1843, 1844,
1846, 1848-1850, 1852-1928
Observer (Adelaide): Index. 1880
-
1908.
MF PER 76 Reel 121
Register (Adelaide). 1836 -
1930.
MF PER 2
South Australian (Adelaide) 2
June 183-19
Aug. 1851.
MICROFILM 15449 - 15461
South Australian Gazette and Colonial
Register
(Adelaide).
18 June 1836 - 29 Dec. 1838. [Facsimile
reproduction]
RB 994.23 S7264
South Australian Gazette and Colonial
Register
(Adelaide).
5 July 1845 - 2
Oct.1847.MICROFILM 15462 - 15466
South Australian Gazette and Colonial
Register
(Adelaide).
5 July 1845 - 27
Dec.1845.
RB 079.942 S726
South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal
(Adelaide).
July 1845 - Mar.1852
MICROFILM 15462-15466
[Called: South Australian Gazette and Colonial
Register
from 5 July 1845 to 2 Oct.1847]
Southern Argus (Strathalbyn, South
Australia).
1866 -
1950.
MF PER 98
Telegraph (Adelaide).15 Aug.1862
- 1 July
1865.
MF PER 151
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