South Australia - Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians 1837 - 1858
- Aboriginal Australians 1859 - 1898
- Aboriginal Australians 1899 - 1936
- Aboriginal Australians - Mixed Descent
Aboriginal Australians 1859 - 1898
Information on the Aborigines of the Murray and Lakes district is in the Register,
26 March 1859, pages 2f-3d.
An editorial on Aborigines is in the Advertiser, 1 August 1859:
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The Aborigines of every country have claims upon all classes of settlers, founded in common justice and humanity, and which no argu,ents are sufficient to overturn...
The first annual report of the Aborigines Friends' Association is in the Register, 14 November 1859, page 3g:
The sufferings with which they were afflicted were a result of not merely of the occupation by the colonists of their old hunting-grounds but in part, also, of the introduction among them of white men's vices with their fearful heritage of physical disease and moral contamination...
(Also see Observer, 1 December 1860, page 3a.)
An editorial on the Aborigines Friends' Society is in the Observer,
27 July 1861, page 6a;
a jubilee celebration is reported on
12 December 1908, page 53a.
Information on bark canoes is in the Register,
17 January 1860, page 3c.
"The Aborigines of South Australia" is in the Register,
17 February 1860, page 2c,
19 April 1860, page 2h,
21 May 1860, page 2g,
31 October 1860, pages 2f-3f,
Observer,
5 May 1860, page 1c (supp.),
28 July 1860, page 6b,
3 November 1860, pages 5b-7d,
5 January 1861, page 6g,
14 March 1861, page 2a.
"Report on the Select Committee on the Aborigines" is in the Chronicle,
3 November 1860, page 5c.
"Condemnation of Natives" is in the Observer,
25 May 1861, page 1g (supp.),
"Decay of the Aborigines" on
15 June 1861, page 6d,
Register,
21 and 28 May 1861, pages 2e and 2g, 5,
Observer,
1 June 1861, page 1d (supp.),
Register,
15 and 20 July 1861, pages 2f, 2h and 2c,
18 January 1862, page 2f,
17 and 19 November 1863, pages 2f and 2g,
7 December 1863, page 3g,
5 September 1874, page 4g.
"The Murders by the Aborigines" is discussed in the Register,
15 and 27 March 1861, pages 2e and 3c,
10 April 1861, page 3b,
Observer,
8 June 1861, page 6f and
the Fowlers Bay murders in the Advertiser on
27 and 28 August 1861, pages 3d and 2e,
11 September 1861, page 2f.
"Intoxicating Drinks to Natives" is in the Register,
11 April 1861, pages 2f-3c; also see
20 February 1865, page 2f,
"Condemnation of Natives" on
24 May 1861, page 3a,
"Trial of Native Criminals" on
6 June 1861, page 2b,
"Decay of the Aborigines" on
14 June 1861, page 2d.
"Fish Trade With the Natives" is in the Observer,
7 December 1861, page 5f.
19 September 1861, page 2h.
"Aborigines in the Far North" is discussed in the Register,
15 August 1863, page 2e,
21 October 1863, page 2f,
8 January 1864, page 2f,
Chronicle,
16 December 1865, page 4f.
"The Aborigines" is in the Observer,
21 November 1863, page 6c,
"Protection of Aborigines" on
29 October 1864, page 6b,
28 January 1865, page 6e.
"Aboriginal Intemperance" is in the Register,
9 December 1863, page 2g.
"Aborigines and the Criminal Law" is discussed in the Advertiser,
23 February 1865, page 2e,
"The Aborigines" on
4 June 1865, page 2g,
Chronicle,
15 July 1865, page 1d (supp.),
"The Starving Blacks" in the Advertiser,
on 24 July 1865, page 2f:
Were it not that the natives are fed by settlers [in the Far North] they must literally perish, unless, indeed, they lived by plunder. To some extent they do; and who can blame them? They can see no wild animals, but they can see sheep; and the sheep alone stand between them and starvation... It is useless to declaim against the natives when they prefer stolen mutton to starvation; white men would do the same.
"Christians and Aborigines in the North" is in the Register,
2 and 11 August 1865, pages 2e and 2d,
3 October 1865, page 2h,
20 February 1866, page 3b; also see
Express,
3 July 1865, page 2d,
Advertiser,
11 September 1865, page 3a,
"Trial of Aborigines" on
18 August 1865, page 2e,
"Civilisation of the Blacks" on
5 and 19 April 1866, pages 2e and 3g.
21 April 1866, page 3a.
Information on the Aborigines of the Far North is in the Register,
1, 7, 20 and 25 September 1865, pages 3d, 3c, 3g and 2h,
23 November 1865, page 2c,
9, 13, 19 and 30 December 1865, pages 2d, 2g, 3a and 2e.
"Native Outrages in the North" is in the Advertiser,
6 January 1866, page 2e,
"The Wilful Extinction of Aboriginal Tribes" on
28 May 1866, page 3c.
23 and 30 June 1866, pages 4f (supp.) and 2a (supp.),
28 July 1866, page 3a (supp.),
25 August 1866, page 3h (supp.),
"Aborigines in the Supreme Court" is in the Register,
11 May 1866, page 2e,
18 May 1867, page 2c,
Observer,
25 may 1867, page 6d.
"Condition of the Aborigines" on
26 June 1866, page 2d:
These poor savages are being degraded and diseased by the vices of - shall we call it civilization? - [they] are left to die in our midst of starvation... within a stone's throw of abundance and luxury...
"The Aborigines" is in the Chronicle,
28 July 1866, page 4b,
"Aborigines in the South-East" is in the Observer,
28 July 1866, page 3a (supp.),
25 August 1866, page 3h (supp.).
"Blackfellows on Trial" is in the Register,
14 September 1866, page 2d,
"Protection of Natives" on
21 January 1867, page 2f,
"The Smallpox Among Aborigines" on
5 February 1867, page 2h,
"A Plea For the Aborigines" on
18 February 1867, page 3e.
"Native Funeral at Anlaby" is in the Chronicle,
3 November 1866, page 7f.
19 January 1867, page 8a.
"The Moravian Missionaries and the Natives" is discussed in the Register,
24 April 1867, pages 2e and 3a,
"Treatment of Aborigines" on
13 July 1868, page 2e,
7 August 1868, page 2f,
23 March 1869, page 2d.
14 July 1868, page 97.
"Trial of Blackfellows" is in the Chronicle,
5 December 1868, page 6f.
"Aborigines as Mine Labourers" is in the Observer,
20 February 1869, page 6g.
"Treatment of Aborigines" is in the Observer,
27 March 1869, pages 3b-12e,
20 December 1873, page 3a.
7 September 1872, page 7g.
"Black Foragers" is in the Observer,
24 May 1873, page 7g.
"The Aborigines and Forest Culture" is in the Observer,
3 January 1874, page 9d,
"The Natives on the Overland Telegraph Line" on
28 February 1874, page 4a,
"The Aborigines" in the Chronicle,
27 March 1875, page 11d.
"Our Relations With the Aboriginals" is in The Irish Harp,
6 March 1874, page 4a,
"Black Law Versus White Law" on
24 December 1874, page 4b.
"Aboriginal Folk Lore" is in the Register,
9 April 1875, page 4f; also see
13 February 1880, page 4d,
6 November 1880, page 4g,
20 May 1884, page 5g.
"The Aborigines" is in the Observer,
3 April 1875, page 13c.
An Aboriginal tale of "Wandilta", which includes some early history of South Australia, is in the Register, 4 and 7 January 1876, pages 7d and 6g.
A report on Aborigines is in the Register,
10 April 1876, page 5a.
"Death of an Aboriginal Explorer" is in the Observer,
30 June 1877, page 6f.
Reminiscences of an early settler are in the Register,
6 February 1878, page 5f; also see
15 and 24 May 1878, pages 6c and 6b,
3 and 10 July 1878, pages 5g,
30 March 1886, page 6c.
21 September 1878, page 14d.
A paper entitled "Aborigines in South Australia" by J.D. Woods and subsequent comment are in the Register,
11 and 12 February 1879, pages 6b and 6e,
24 and 31 (supp.) March 1879, page 6d and 1b,
9, 16, 17 and 22 April 1879, pages 5e, 7b, 6g and 6d; also see
6 November 1880, page 4g,
30 March 1886, page 6c.
"The Education and Civilization of Aborigines" is in the Observer,
22 March 1879, page 10f.
A review of the book The Booandik Tribe of South Australia is in the Observer,
19 June 1880, page 1018b; also see
Chronicle,
17 July 1880, page 5d.
"The Aboriginal Population" is in the Chronicle,
18 June 1881, page 9d.
Details of an Aboriginal census is in the Register,
15 June 1881, page 4f, "The Aborigines of South Australia" on
20 May 1884, page 5g.
"Red-Ochre Caves of the Blacks" is in the Observer,
17 June 1882, page 33c.
The Advertiser of 1 December 1883, page 4f in an editorial says:
The occupation of a vast and magnificent country like Australia by a race superior to the aborigines was inevitable... [To represent] that the Europeans are interlopers who have spoiled the native races of their natural and inalienable inheritance, and that the act is merely a robbery committed by high-handed force, does not find a response in the conscience even of those who indulge in it; or, if it does, they stand self-convicted of open and flagrant violation of honesty and right.
An Aboriginal corroboree on Adelaide Oval and subsequent comment on it appears in the Register,
29 and 30 May 1885, pages 5b and 6a,
1 and 3 June 1885, pages 5d-6e-7c and 7c.
6 June 1885, page 22 and
a cartoon on
27 July 1889, page 4.
A cartoon titled "Amongst the Blacks, From a Religious Point of View" is in The Lantern,
25 July 1885, page 11.
The plight of Aborigines in the Gawler Ranges is reported in the Register,
25 August 1885, page 7h.
An editorial headed "Two Ways of Civilising Natives" is in the Register,
14 November 1885, page 4f:
Down in South Australia good men try to civilise them with the Bible, elsewhere we civilise them with the Martin-Henry rifle...
"Prehistoric Art of the Aborigines" is discussed in the Advertiser,
12 and 19 August 1886, pages 7d and 7d,
Observer,
14 August 1886, page 43a,
"The Art of the Black Man" on
28 June 1892, page 6c; also see
Observer,
18 and 25 May 1895, pages 34b and 34a.
A "jubilee" article on the Aborigines is in the Register,
21 June 1887 (supp.); also see
Observer,
10 September 1887, page 30c.
20 August 1887.
Reminiscences of "The Blacks in the South" by Thomas Giles is in the Register,
5 October 1887, page 3f, while
"The Blacks on Yorke Peninsula" appears on
25 October 1887, page 7a - the latter report also has information on early pastoralists.
"An Australian Native Fifty Years Ago" by F.W. Taplin is in the Register,
24 April 1889, pages 4g-5g.
Interesting letters on the Aborigines are in the Register,
19 November 1889, page 6b,
2 and 10 December 1889, pages 6h and 6d; also see
10 January 1890, pages 5a-6g.
"The Jacky Enquiry" is in the Chronicle,
28 December 1889, pages 9c-22f,
4, 18 and 25 January 1890, pages 10a-21d-22d, 21f and 4e.
Alleged ill-treatment of Aborigines by the police is discussed in the Advertiser,
27 December 1889, pages 6c-7c,
2 January 1890, page 4c,
"Condition and Treatment of Natives" in the Chronicle,
11 January 1890, page 22d.
"Treatment of Aborigines" is the subject of editorial comment in the Register on 6 May 1890, pages 4h-5c:
I have seen a lubra chained to a heavy log in the hot sun at the mission station... The mailman has seen four or five at once with heavy chains on both neck and ankles... If a boy or girl go away they ride after them with long whips and revolvers up and down the Finke...
Also see Register,
7 and 26 May 1890, pages 3f and 7h,
24 September 1890, page 5h and
Advertiser,
10 January 1890, page 6d.
"The Far Northern Blacks" is in the Advertiser,
7 May 1890, page 5g,
"Our Aboriginal Population" in the Register,
12 July 1890, page 5c.
"King Jack of the Adelaide Tribe" is in the Observer,
10 May 1890, page 44b.
18 November 1890, page 5c,
Observer,
29 November 1890, page 7a.
"Ill-Treatment of Aborigines" is in the Chronicle,
6 December 1890, page 23b,
"The SA Mission Stations" on
20 December 1890, page 4g.
"Blacks in the Finke River District, Their Habits, Customs, etc" is in the Register,
6 May 1891, page 7e,
"Mr Bull and the Blacks" in the Advertiser,
18 August 1891, page 7c.
"Aborigines of the Far North and West Coast" is in the Register,
15 April 1892, page 7b,
30 March 1893, pages 4h-6h:
So they wander, wretched, half-starved, and diseased, over the face of the country - living relics of the most difficult of social and ethnological problems which ever confronted the intelligence of the Anglo-Australian. The extinction of the Aborigines from their decadence is clearly only a matter of a short time. Australia will then have settled the native problem by rubbing it out.
"Blacks and Whites" is in the Observer,
10 December 1892, page 25a.
"Aborigines and White Men's Laws" is commented upon in the Advertiser,
20 January 1893, page 6b.
"Murderers Black and White" is in the Observer,
8 July 1893, page 25a,
Register,
13, 14, 15 and 20 July 1893, pages 4f, 5a, 4e and 4h.
"Smoke Signals of the Aborigines" is in the Advertiser,
10 October 1893, page 7d,
24 November 1893, page 6h,
Register,
24, 25 and 27 October 1893, pages 4g-6c, 7g and 7g,
24 November 1893, page 7g,
29 December 1893, page 7h,
13 June 1894, page 6g,
10 April 1895, page 3d,
"Aboriginal Smoke Signals and Their Meanings" in The Mail,
16 February 1929, page 31.
"Natives Want to Vote" is in the Chronicle,
24 February 1894, page 7f.
Articles titled "Some Aborigines I Have Known" by Simpson Newland is in the Register,
13 December 1894, page 7g,
1, 2 and 3 January 1895, pages 6d, 7a and 6a.
"Aboriginal Water Quest or How Blacks Get Water in Dry Country" is discussed in the Advertiser,
29 June 1895, page 6i.
Aboriginal words incorporated into the English language are discussed in the Register,
26 July 1895, page 6d.
"Blacks and Whites and Christmas Benevolence" is in the Register,
13 December 1895, page 4g,
"Australian Aborigines" on
25 February 1899, page 10a.
Editorials on "The Aborigines" are in the Advertiser,
26 December 1895, page 4g,
21 December 1897, page 4e:
We do not hesitate to close to the yellow man the land taken from the black, and again we satisfy our consciences by the reflection that ours is a type that in the struggle for existence is more worthy to survive... At the best our civilisation is fatal to the savage.
"A Decaying Race" is in the Advertiser,
12 September 1898, page 5e,
"The Natives of Central Australia" on
24 September 1898, page 5a,
"Our Coloured Kindred" in the Observer,
1 October 1898, page 44b,
"Work of the German Missionaries" on
1 April 1899, page 41c.
