IN 1899 Spencer and Gillen, writing about the Arunta tribe of Australia, declared that the natives possessed no ... 237) he says that for the Australian native sexual intercourse "positively ...

The ‘Australian Natives Association' was founded by and ... “We have been able for so long to disremember the Aborigines that we are now hard put to keep them in mind even when we most want ...

From the myth of Prester John to the character of Tarzan, the idea of a Western white person living among jungle natives has always been intriguing ... founded in 1831 and is therefore the oldest in ...

Australian Aborigines: the Languages and Customs of several Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. By James Dawson. (Melbourne: Robertson; London: Macmillan and Co ...

The Australian aborigines wear practically no clothes ... the paintings are “touched” (i.e., repainted) by the natives each season to bring on the rain. But at Munich’s Ethnographical ...

Meanwhile, the head of the Department for the Protection of Natives, known as Devil ... As amphibians, they loathe the dry climate of the Australian outback, which is why skerricks of humankind ...

The Australian Dictionary of Biography notes that McIntyre ... Governor King issued a government and general order that “Aborigines” near Parramatta, Georges River and Prospect could be shot on sight.

In his 1968 Boyer Lectures, he broke “the Great Australian Silence” over the ... to establish cordial relations with Aborigines; to barter with them; to record their population and practices ...

John Chesterman, co-author of Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship ... with the clause "Aboriginal natives should not be counted" removed. The claim the 1967 referendum ...

In the spirit of genuine reconciliation here are the facts: On March 24, 1836, Mitchell, while travelling down the right bank of the Millewa (Murray) River, reached Lake Benanee and saw ‘natives in ..