Title Goodbye Bussamarai : the Mandandanji land war, Southern Queensland, 1842-1852 / Patrick Collins

Published St. Lucia, QLD : University of Queensland Press, 2002

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Description xxix, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm regular print Contents Introduction: Aboriginal rebellion against ruthless white settlers on the Australian frontiers -- 1. The Mandandanji meet the whites: Too many dreams, too many cows and sheep, 1842-47 -- 2. The Mandandanji escalate the land war, 1848 -- 3. Commissioner Durbin brings white law to the Maranoa, 1849 -- 4. Commandant Walker and his Native Police -- 5. Words were cheap: Earl Grey, 1849 -- 6. The Mandandanji befriend Paddy McEnroe, 1849 -- 7. The Mandandanji reject Commissioner Mitchell's authority, January-March 1850 -- 8. The Dangars and the Yuleba Creek massacre, March 1850 -- 9. Bussamarai's "Opera" incites the settlers, July 1850 to January 1851 -- 10. "Determined hostilities" escalate demands for Native Police, February-August 1851 -- 11. Law and order for the Aborigines, August-November 1851 -- 12. Evidence of Native Police slaughter in late 1851 -- 13. Dismantling law for the white settlers, January-April 1852 -- 14. The Yamboucal massacre, May 1852 -- 15. Bussamarai and the aftermath of the Yamboucal massacre, May-July 1852 -- 16. More Aborigines die during Sergeant Dempster's encores, July-September 1852 -- 17. Goodbye Bussamarai: 14 November 1852 -- App. 1. The changing boundaries of the Maranoa Pastoral District -- App. 2. Yambugle or Yamboucal? and "Noorindoo" -- App. 3. Petition from Lower Condamine settlers seeking police protection -- App. 4. Census of white people, Maranoa Pastoral District, 7 November 1851 Summary "Bussamarai was a powerful resistance leader whose influence spread across five Aboriginal nations. Like the legendary Pemulwuy, Yagan or Jandamara, he fought for the survival of his people, the Mandandanji of southern Queensland. Their homeland bordered northern New South Wales and its infamous sites of Aboriginal massacre and frontier warfare: Myall Creek, Slaughterhouse Creek and Waterloo Creek. This history serves as a sequel to those atrocities, so unforgettably chronicled in Roger Milliss's Waterloo Creek. Closely researched and finely grained, this is the first analysis of this fierce leader and the Mandandanji whose valiant fight for their homeland led to their decimation." "Collins brings the violent struggle for land to graphic life, piecing together clues of a past suppressed or forgotten. Unearthed is the full scale of a tragic chronology of bloody "bushwhacks", racial wars and Frederick Walker's dreaded Native Police. Led by white officers, and armed with guns and swords, they were party to the destruction of countless indigenous societies."--BOOK JACKET Analysis Aborigines Queensland Civil disorder Race relations History, 1801-1900 Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages [281]-295 Subject Bussumarai Walker, Frederick, 1820?-1866 Walker, Frederick. Bussamarai Queensland Native Police Force. Aboriginal Australians -- Wars -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa River Region Aboriginal Australians -- Colonization -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa River Region Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa River Region Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa District Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa District -- History -- 19th century Aboriginal Australians -- Colonization -- Australia -- Maranoa District (Qld.) Aboriginal Australians -- Wars -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa District Aboriginal Australians -- Wars -- Australia -- Maranoa District (Qld.) Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Maranoa District (Qld.) -- History -- 19th century Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Maranoa District (Qld.) Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa District Aboriginal Australians -- Colonization -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa District Aboriginal Australian police -- Queensland -- History Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa River Region -- History -- 19th century Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa River Region Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa District Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa District Aboriginal Australians -- Wars. Race relations. Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Queensland. Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Queensland. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- History -- 19th century. Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations. Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Queensland -- Maranoa District Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Queensland. Mandandanji (Australian people) -- History -- 19th century. SUBJECT Maranoa River Region (Qld.) -- Race relations Maranoa River region (Qld.) -- Race relations Queensland, Southwestern -- History Maranoa District (Qld.) Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552 Maranoa District (Qld.) -- Race relations Genre/Form History. Author Collins, Patrick, 1938- LC no. 2002327758 ISBN 0702232939

Other Titles Mandandanji land war, Southern Queensland, 1842-1852

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