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AUSTRALIA

INDIGENOUS LIFE
RECORDS KEPT BY BELINDA’S ANCESTORS GIVE A FASCINATING INSIGHT INTO INDIGENOUS LIFE IN
THE 1800s.
the family’s affection for the Indigenous people, while also
conveying the horrific treatment of the Aboriginal people of the
area by the white settlers at the time.
As well as the writings by the Atkinson family, I drew on
Aboriginal Legends by C.W. Peck and a number of Aboriginal
folktales collected in the Shoalhaven area during the 1860s.

The Atkinson family was fascinated by the Indigenous
people of Australia.
James Atkinson wro є