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Author Milliss, Roger.

Title Waterloo Creek : the Australia Day massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British conquest of New South Wales / Roger Milliss
Published Ringwood, VIC : McPhee Gribble, 1992
Ringwood, Vic. : McPhee Gribble ; New York : Viking Penguin, 1992

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  994.40049915 Mil/Wct  DUE 17-12-23
Description 965 pages : illustrations
Contents Includes index
Summary Detailed account of the contact history and political background to race relations in early colonial New South Wales; Kamilaroi territorial groupings, traditional subsistance social organisation, religion and language; pastoral expansion, government policy and attitudes toward Aborigines; violent conflict and the legal and political response; Waterloo Creek, Slaughterhouse Creek, Gravesend and Myall Creek massacres; subsequent inquiries; establishment of the Australian Aborigines Protection Society and Aboriginal Protectorate; comparison with the Battle of Endeavour Lane - Moree, 1982
Analysis Aborigines
History, 1801-1900
Multiple killings
New South Wales
Notes Bibliography; p. 913-925; Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 913-925
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Crimes against -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Aboriginal Australians -- Crimes against -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Waterloo Creek Region
Aboriginal Australians -- Waterloo Creek Region (N.S.W.) -- History -- 19th century
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Crimes against -- Australia -- Waterloo Creek Region (N.S.W.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Waterloo Creek Region -- History -- 19th century
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Waterloo Creek Region -- 19th century
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Taree -- Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Waterloo Creek Region -- History -- 19th century
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Waterloo Creek Region -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Crimes against -- Waterloo Creek Region, New South Wales
Aboriginal Australians -- Waterloo Creek Region, New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
Kamilaroi (Australian people)
Massacres -- New South Wales -- Waterloo Creek Region
Massacres -- Australia -- Waterloo Creek Region (N.S.W.)
Massacres -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Waterloo Creek Region
Massacres -- Waterloo Creek Region, New South Wales
SUBJECT New South Wales -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495 -- 1788-1851
New South Wales -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495 -- 1851-1891
New South Wales -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495
LC no. 92158647
ISBN 0869141562
9780869141564