State Records of South Australia is proud to be partnered with the University of Adelaide’s ‘The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies’ project.
The outcome of this project is the website The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies which maps nineteenth-century colonial encounters of ‘frontier conflict’ that took place between Aboriginal peoples and European settlers in South Australia from early colonialisation to the late nineteenth century, and records how these events have been remembered from region to region.
It gathers together, for the first time, a rich collection of South Australia’s archival records on frontier conflict, colonial press reports, artworks and photographs, and contemporary oral histories with South Australian Aboriginal communities. Featured archival material from State Records collection includes court reports, pastoral lease survey maps, and government correspondence from the police and Protector of Aborigines.
This project was funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage grant, led by the University of Adelaide and developed in partnership with Reconciliation South Australia, the State Library of South Australia, the History Trust of South Australia, the South Australian Museum and State Records of South Australia.