Ysola Best Ysola Best i(A73473 works by)
Born: Established: 15 Nov 1940 ; Died: Ceased: 2007
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Kombumerri ; Aboriginal Bundjalung
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1 y separately published work icon Yugambeh Talga : Music Traditions of the Yugambeh People Ysola Best , Candace Kruger , Patricia O'Connor , Southport : Keeaira Press , 2005 7223991 2005 single work information book

For the first time the music of the Yugambeh language region has been gathered in one place. This book opens a window on the musical traditions of the Aboriginal people of the region that extends from the Logan River in south-east Queensland to the Tweed River on the border with New South Wales. The real authors of this book are the many people listed in the acknowledgments and end notes. They were the ones who first recorded their experiences and events or shared their personal recollections. (Source: Publishers website)

1 y separately published work icon Borobi and His Friends Ysola Best , Gillian Aird , Beenleigh : Kombumerri Aboriginal Corporation for Culture , 1998 Z1632217 1998 single work children's fiction children's
1 3 y separately published work icon Kombumerri, Saltwater People Ysola Best , Alex Barlow , Port Melbourne : Heinemann Library , 1997 Z1019074 1997 single work autobiography children's

'History of the Kombumeri people from the Gold Coast region of Queensland, up to the 1990's, life before and after settlement' (Source: Catholic Schools Office, Armidale website)

1 An Uneasy Coexistence : An Aboriginal Perspective of Contact History in Southeast Queensland Ysola Best , 1994 single work essay
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 18 no. 1, 2 1994; (p. 87-94)
1 Jebbribillum Bora Ring : Our Learning Place Ysola Best , 1991 single work essay
— Appears in: Yugambeh : In Defence of Our Country 1991; (p. 4-5)
1 [Review Essay] Up Rode the Troopers : The Black Police in Queensland Ysola Best , 1990 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 1990; (p. 85-86)

'This book provides the serious historical researcher with some important clues pertaining to several incidences in the affairs of the government-appointed Queensland Native Police that reveal a politically expedient cover-up. In May 1861 a Select Committee on the Native Police Force was appointed to enquire into the Force and the conditions of the Aborigines generally. In his book Up Rode the Troopers, BilI Rosser compares the Minutes of Evidence taken from these proceedings with an oral history account of a descendant of the tribal group, known locally as the Telemon Mob, which suffered from the callous brutality of the Native Police Force under the command of Lieutenant Frederick Wheeler. In this literary investigation into the cold-blooded murder of three Telemon elders, Rosser lifts the rug and exposes the dirty and dark deeds that have been conveniently swept under the carpet of colonial squattocracy. Rosser succeeds in revealing that the enquiry into the affairs of the Native Police was an exercise in political expedience and served to rationalise the systematic exploitation of Australian Aborigines in the newly formed State of Queensland, and to pave the way for the oppressive Queensland Aborigines' Protection Acts.'  (Introduction)

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