xiv, 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents
1. Doomadgee: the politics of colonial social relations -- 2. "Wild Time": a history of coercion and resistance -- 3. Station and fringe-dwelling life -- 4. Doomadgee Mission: institutionalisation and a new form of colonial struggle -- 5. Whitefella comin': power relations and the different domains -- 6. Politics and identity within the Aboriginal domain -- 7. Authority relations, the missionary staff and Aboriginal consciousness -- 8. Councillors, "Yellafellas" and the influence of colonial ideology -- 9. Christianity, domination and resistance -- 10. Coercion, resistance and accommodation in colonial social relations -- Appendix A: Historical movements of five example groups -- Appendix B: Incomplete list of individuals removed from Burketown, Turn Off Lagoon & certain stations, 1912-36
Summary
Study of the community at Doomadgee; history of Aboriginal resistance in the Doomadgee region; relationship between Aborigines and non-Aborigines, pastoralists and missionaries; Aboriginal responses to Queensland Government policies; social conditions; Doomadgee Mission; removal of children; treatment of children by missionaries; Christianity; Brethren; religion; social identity; stockworkers
Analysis
Australian aborigines
Aboriginal reserves
Attitudes
Australian aborigines
Colonialism
Doomadgee Aboriginal Reserve
History
Queensland
Race relations
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages [238]-245
Notes
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection