The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
This chapter looks at practices of literacy in Indigenous cultures after the arrival of the Europeans. It includes the sections: Literacy and the Stolen Generation; What did Aboriginal people read and write?; Colonial fantasies of Aboriginal voices in poetry and prose; Bennelong, Biraban, and Benjamin: early Indigenous authors of alphabetic writing; Early Aboriginal authorship and traditional Indigenous law; Hidden cultures of literacy; and Words for writing.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Last amended 28 Aug 2024 09:59:20
52-72
Early Writings by Indigenous Australians
Subjects:
- Bringing them Home : Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families 1997 single work criticism
- The Creek of the Four Graves 1845 single work poetry
- Letters from Aboriginal Women of Victoria, 1867-1926 2002 anthology correspondence
- W. A. Church of England Magazine 1862 periodical
- ca. 1800-1899
Export this record
