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The Last Man - a British Genocide in Tasmania

Little more than 70 years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out.


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Bruising The Red Earth - Ochre mining and ritual in Aboriginal Tasmania
A series of essays that explore the mining of red ochre by Aboriginal Tasmanians from several angles. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Kanalaritja an unbroken string - a short film
A short film honouring the tradition of Tasmanian Aboriginal shell stringing.

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The Black War – Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania | Nicholas Clements | 2014 [SC]

Between 1825 and 1831, close to 200 British colonists and around 1,000 Aboriginal Tasmanians died violently in what became known as the Black War — the most intense and sustained frontier conflict in Australian history. Nicholas Clements takes a different approach to this history from most accounts.


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Reading Robinson - Companion essays to George Robinson's Friendly Mission

A collection of essays by Australian and international historians examining George Augustus Robinson's Friendly Mission — the journals Robinson kept during his time among the Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land from 1829 to 1834, edited by N.J.B. Plomley and republished in a second edition in 2008.


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Aboriginal Convicts - Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles
This book is about the 130 aboriginal convicts who were transported to and within the Australian penal colonies. They lived, laboured, were punished, and died alongside other convicts, but until this ground breaking book, their stories had largely been forgotten.

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Me Write Myself - the free Aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna
The free Aboriginal inhabitants of Wybalenna on Flinders Island tell their stories.

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Grease and Ochre – The Blending of Two Cultures at the Colonial Sea Frontier | Patsy Cameron | 2016 Reprint | Signed by Author [USED – SC]

Patsy Cameron's examination of the blending of European and Aboriginal Tasmanian cultures on the islands of Bass Strait following European settlement — originally her doctoral thesis at the University of Tasmania, and the foundational academic work on this subject.


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The Killing at Risdon Cove
A re-examination of the much written about but little documented aboriginal massacre at Risdon Cove in 1804.

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Palawa tunapri - Knowledge of Our Ancestors: Trish Hodge's record of Tasmanian Aboriginal plant uses for food, medicine & tools | 2025 [NEW – SC]

Trish Hodge, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman and descendant of Mannalargenna, spent twenty years researching and documenting the traditional uses of more than 350 native Tasmanian plants — for food, medicine, tools and seasonal knowledge.


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