My People's Songs- how an indigenous family survived colonial Tasmania

How an indigenous family survived colonial Tasmania. Joel Stephen Birnie grew up hearing the true stories about Tarenootairer, his earliest known ancestral grandmother (c.1806–58), taken from her family as a child by Bass Strait sealers, and tells his family's history without the colonial lens. Tarenootairer's daughters, Mary Ann Arthur (c.1820–71) and Fanny Cochrane Smith (c.1832–1905), carried her fight forward: Mary Ann's advocacy for autonomy influenced later Indigenous politics, and Fanny Cochrane Smith publicly challenged the colonial declaration of Tasmanian Aboriginal extinction in her own lifetime. Birnie's book jointly won the 2023 Ernest Scott Prize.

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BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover book
• Published 2022
• 231-pages

CONDITION

New.

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