Terrible Hard Biscuits

by Chapman, Valerie; Read, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781863739641
• ISBN10: 1863739645
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Summary

Figures and tables Contributors Acknowledgments Editor's introduction 1 Perspectives of the past: an introduction ISABEL MCBRYDE 2 Who owns the past? Aborignes as captives of the archives HENRIETTA FOURMILE 3 Inventing Aborigines BOB REECE 4 Exchange in Southeastern Australia: an ethnohistorical perspective ISABEL MCBRYDE 5 Adelaide as an Aboriginal landscape PHILIP CLARKE 6 The struggle for recognition: part-Aborigines in Bass Strait in the nineteenth century LYNDALL RYAN 7 Coming in? The Yanyuwa as a case study in the geography of contact history RICHARD BAKER 8 Land in our own country: the Aboriginal land rights movement in Southeastern Australia 1860-1914 9 'A rape of the soul so profound': some reflections on the dispersal policy in New South Wales 10 Growing up in Queensland BOWMAN JOHNSON AND ANDREW MARKUS 11 Resettlement and caring for the country: the Anmatyerre expereince ELSPETH YOUNG 12

Table of Contents

Figures and tables
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Editors' introduction
Perspectives of the past: an introduction	p. 1
Who owns the past? Aborigines as captives of the archives	p. 16
Inventing Aborigines	p. 28
Exchange in southeastern Australia: an ethnohistorical perspective	p. 42
Adelaide as an Aboriginal landscape	p. 69
The struggle for recognition: part-Aborigines in Bass Strait in the nineteenth century	p. 94
Coming in? The Yanyuwa as a case study in the geography of contact history	p. 123
Land in our own country: the Aboriginal land rights movement in southeastern Australia, 1860-1914	p. 167
'A rape of the soul so profound': some reflections on the dispersal policy in New South Wales	p. 202
Growing up in Queensland	p. 215
Resettlement and caring for the country: the Anmatyerre experience	p. 223
The Aboriginal embassy: an account of the protests of 1972	p. 241
Endnotes	p. 262
Index	p. 275
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