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Brewers 'memoirs demonstratre a number of pertinent themes that enlarge and revise previous understandings of fronier relations and, the genre of the pioneer narrative. Historians have concluded that friendships between settler and Indigenous women were rare...Minnie Brewer's memoirs provide a unique insight into the relationships between white and Aboriginal women in colonial NSW...Minnie's recollections caution us to hesitate drawing conclusions on women's cross-cultural relationships...' Source: La Trobe Journal no. 85, May 2010

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    y separately published work icon The La Trobe Journal Indigenous Victorians : Repressed, Resourceful and Respected no. 85 May 2010 Z1694682 2010 periodical issue 'The articles in this special issue of the La Trobe Journal cover both historical and contemporary subjects including, Aboriginal cricket at Coranderrk, eel fishing at Lake Condah, the revival of the making of possum skin cloaks, and the successful fight to save Lake Tyers.' Source: The La Trobe Journal no.85, May 2010 2010 pg. 70-82
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  • Memoirs Mary Emily Susannah Brewer , 1915-1928 single work autobiography
  • Victoria,
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