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Title

Aboriginal Records

In

Archive Collection of Western Australia

Editor

State Records Office of Western Australia

Imprint

State Records Office of Western Australia, 2012

Url

http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/collection/aboriginal-records

Description

The State Records Office (SRO) has created an 'entry point' for people who want to find records relating to Aboriginal people in WA.

Abstract

The SRO says:

In Western Australia, successive State Government agencies controlled the lives of Aboriginal people from 1905 until citizenship rights were granted in the late 1960s. The official records that document this control are of vital significance, particularly for those people who were removed from their families and resettled elsewhere in the State. Many of these records are now held by the State Records Office.The records relating to Aboriginal people held by the State Records Office are an important source of information for those interested in tracing their family history, as well as being a valuable historical resource.

Related Entries

Archival Series

• Department of Native Welfare [and predecessors], Client Files (1921 - 1969)

Glossary Terms

• Protector of Aborigines (1832 - 1954)

Legislation

• Aborigines Act 1889, Crown Colony of Western Australia
• Aborigines Act 1897, Colony of Western Australia
• Aborigines Act 1905, State of Western Australia

Organisations

• Aborigines Department, State of Western Australia (1926 - 1936)
• Aborigines Department, State of Western Australia (1898 - 1908)
• Aborigines Protection Board, Crown Colony of Western Australia. (1887 - 1890)
• Aborigines Protection Board, State of Western Australia (1886 - 1898)
• Department for Community Welfare, State of Western Australia (1972 - 1985)
• Department of Indigenous Affairs, State of Western Australia (2001 - )
• Department of Native Affairs, State of Western Australia (1936 - 1954)
• Department of Native Welfare, State of Western Australia (1955 - 1972)
• Department of the North West, State of Western Australia (1920 - 1926)

People

• Gale, Charles Frederick (1860 - 1928)
• Neville, Auber Octavius (1875 - 1954)
• Prinsep, Henry Charles (1844 - 1922)

Related Publications

hasPart

• State Records Office of Western Australia, of Western Australia, 'An Index to the Chief Protector of Aborigines Files, 1898 -1908', 1998, http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/aboriginal-records/index-chief-protector-aborigines-files-1898-1908. Details

isPartOf

• Archive Collection of Western Australia, State Records Office of Western Australia, 2012, http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/archive-collection/collection. Details

isRelated

• 'Aborigines Department [1], State of Western Australia (1898-1908) Agency Detail (State Records Office)', in Archive Collection of Western Australia, State Records Office of Western Australia, 2012, http://aeon.sro.wa.gov.au/Investigator/Details/Agency_Detail.asp?Id=67. Details
• Aborigines Department [2], State of Western Australia (1926-1936) Agency Detail (State Records Office), Archive Collection of Western Australia, with State Records Office of Western Australia, State Records Office of Western Australia, 2012, http://aeon.sro.wa.gov.au/Investigator/Details/Agency_Detail.asp?Id=63. Details
• Department of Aborigines and Fisheries, State of Western Australia (1909-1920) Agency Detail (State Records Office), Archive Collection of Western Australia, with State Records Office of Western Australia, State Records Office of Western Australia, 2012, http://aeon.sro.wa.gov.au/Investigator/Details/Agency_Detail.asp?Id=66. Details
• Department of Indigenous Affairs, State of Western Australia (2001 - ) Agency Detail (State Records Office), Archive Collection of Western Australia, with State Records Office of Western Australia, State Records Office of Western Australia, 2012, http://aeon.sro.wa.gov.au/Investigator/Details/Agency_Detail.asp?Id=1202. Details
• Department of Native Affairs, State of Western Australia (1936-1954) Agency Detail (State Records Office), Archive Collection of Western Australia, with State Records Office of Western Australia, State Records Office of Western Australia, 2012, http://aeon.sro.wa.gov.au/Investigator/Details/Agency_Detail.asp?Id=47. Details
• Department of the North West, State of Western Australia (1920-1926) Agency Detail (State Records Office), Archive Collection of Western Australia, with State Records Office of Western Australia, State Records Office of Western Australia, 2012, http://aeon.sro.wa.gov.au/Investigator/Details/Agency_Detail.asp?Id=64. Details
• Fisheries Department [2], State of Western Australia (1920-1964) Agency Detail (State Records Office), Archive Collection of Western Australia, with State Records Office of Western Australia, State Records Office of Western Australia, 2012, http://aeon.sro.wa.gov.au/Investigator/Details/Agency_Detail.asp?Id=65. Details