Looking for Blackfellas' Point An Australian History of Place

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ISBN: 9780868406442 | 0868406449
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/2002

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A history for every Australian who is interested in the story of settler-Australia's relations with Indigenous peoplewhat happened between us, how we learnt to forget and, finally, how we came to confront the truth about our past and build a movement for reconciliation.

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Acknowledgments
Geographical terms
Introduction
Dispossession
'Without treaty, bargain or apology'	p. 28
'Quietly, and Aborigines submitted'	p. 33
Did the NSW Government and the Colonial Office intend that the rights of Aboriginal people in south-eastern New South Wales be protected?	p. 46
'What might have been'	p. 49
Forgetting
'A cult of disremembering'?	p. 62
'This wonderful invasion'	p. 65
Emily's story	p. 79
Making settler history	p. 84
Abandonment
The architecture of grace	p. 98
'Waiting for civilisation - longing for home'	p. 100
Agent of civilisation	p. 117
'This black mother earth': The journals of Oswald Brierly	p. 120
'Victims of singular neglect'	p. 135
Waiting for Eden	p. 138
Confrontation
New history, new politics	p. 156
'We are all one': Aboriginal people in Eden-Monaro, 1860-1960	p. 162
'Friendly but firm discrimination': The fight for Aboriginal housing in Bega, 1960-1970	p. 173
Raising a different flag: The struggle for Aboriginal rights in south-eastern New South Wales in the 1970s	p. 191
'A very hurting thing': Apologising for history	p. 202
Conclusion: Looking for Blackfellas' Point III	p. 218
Notes	p. 231
Select bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 265
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Looking for Blackfellas' Point An Australian History of Place

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