Robert Mate Mate Robert Mate Mate i(A81402 works by) (a.k.a. Robert Ralph Mate Mate)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 Barn Da Na : Passing on the Message : Dialects of the Woiwurung [and] Cultural Comparisons (from the manuscript Barn Da Na) Robert Mate Mate , 1993 extract essay
— Appears in: Australian Short Stories , no. 42 1993; (p. 22-28) Robert Mate Mate discusses the meaning of some words in the Woiwurung language and how they have been misunderstood by Europeans. Mate Mate also discusses how the ceremony of Tanderum was interpreted by John Batman as a treaty in 1835.
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