x, 182 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
Contents
The coming of the white man -- Hard work on the stations -- The stolen generations -- Moving all the time: missions and reserves -- Around the Second World War -- The forties, fifties and sixties -- Jail and detention -- Family -- Protest movements -- After the referendum: the problems of today -- A contemporary autobiography: Muriel Dennis -- The nineties: health and reconciliation
Summary
Northwestern NSW was forcibly taken by white settlers in the mid nineteenth century. Surviving land owners were moved on, placed on missions and reserves, but kept returning to the riverbank. In this book, descendants protray past upheavals and their hopes for the future