Aboriginal Australian History

Running head: ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
Aboriginal Australian History
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1ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
Primary source
Alexander, A. ed., 2005. The companion to Tasmanian history. Centre for Tasmanian
Historical Studies, University of Tasmania.
This primary source has been published in the University of Tasmania. It has been
written by Alison Alexander. This source is very much important to denote the clack war took
place between indigenous aboriginal people of Tasmania and British colonists. The in depth
analysis of that war had been discussed in this primary source much efficiently. The author has
brought out all the relevant details regarding this incident (Alexander 2005). This incident went
on from 1820 to 1832. Tasmania was a border state in the country so it was regarded as a frontier
colony. The minute details of this incident have been produced in this primary source to find out
the evil effects of colonialism (Alexander 2005). This primary source is very closely related with
the particular language group of the nation.
This source had discussed about social, political and government interests in the best
ways. The political interests that this source has served are regarding the colonial confrontation
between the indigenous native aboriginal people of Australia and the British colonial powers.
This source has evidently showcased the different issues regarding the colonial oppression and
the question race. Racial inequalities have propagated these conflicts over the ages in the frontier
provinces like Tasmania (Alexander 2005). Apart from the case of Tasmania, various other cases
of frontier colonization have been depicted in this primary source as well. In this source, author
has explored that very first official frontier colony had been set up at Risdon Cove in the month
of September of 1803 (Ryan 2008). Some violent activities had been seen related to this aspect.
One of this according to this source is that of Great Oyster Bay when aboriginal people of the
country went on to burn 2000 seal pelts of sealers. In other sources, the depiction of this war had