TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simpson,John
TI  - Born to command - not to take orders!: the Brooks family of Balbinia station : pioneers of Israelite Bay Western Australia 
SN  - 9780859056472
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Carlisle, Western Australia
PB  - Hesperian Press
KW  - Brooks family.
KW  - Brooks, John Paul,
KW  - Brooks, Sarah Theresa,
KW  - Dimer family.
KW  - Pioneers
KW  - Western Australia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Israelite Bay region
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Settlement and contacts - Settlers
KW  - Settlement and contacts - Explorers
KW  - Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Sheep and wool
KW  - Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
KW  - Animals - Livestock - Stealing and killing
KW  - Indigenous knowledge - Botany
KW  - Costume and clothing - Nose pegs and piercing
KW  - Mirning people (A9) (WA SH52-14)
KW  - Ngatjumaya / Ngatjumay / Ngatju people (A3) (WA SI51-03)
KW  - History
KW  - Balbinia / Balbinya (SE WA SI51-07)
KW  - Israelite Bay (SE WA SI51-07)
KW  - Australian
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 106-129) and indexes
N2  - pages 23- John Brooks' journey to Eucla; accompanied by "Jackie" a local Aboriginal man who helped to find water sources; signs of inland Aboriginal people called "Badooks" by the Mirning; Aboriginal people direct the travellers to water; party returns from Eucla accompanied by another Aboriginal boy "Chinaman"; page 61 : Heinrich Dimer working as a shepherd for John Brooks; cooperates with local Aboriginal people in hunting kangaroos and sharing proceeds; Aboriginal people working as shepherds -- Chapter 14 : Insights into Aboriginal ife : Aboriginal shepherds; imprisonment at Rottnest Island of Aboriginal people caught for theft of livestock; Aboriginal knowledge of botany; methods of obtaining water; initiation rites, nose piercing; account of the murder of an Aboriginal woman named Jessie on Balbina station by Aboriginal man Neru or Noru
ER  -