Title Whitefella comin' : Aboriginal responses to colonialism in northern Australia / David S. Trigger

Published Cambridge [England] ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Description 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 Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations. Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Queensland -- Doomadgee Aboriginal Australians -- Reservations -- Australia -- Queensland. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Doomadgee Aboriginal Reserve (Qld.) -- Social conditions Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Government relations. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- History. Aboriginal Australians -- Doomadgee Aboriginal Reserve, Queensland Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Reserves. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Social conditions. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Doomadgee Aboriginal Reserve -- Social conditions Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Doomadgee -- Social conditions Missionary settlements -- Australia -- Queensland -- Doomadgee Mission Station SUBJECT Australia, Northern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010749 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Doomadgee (Qld.) -- Race relations Doomadgee Aboriginal Reserve (Qld.) -- Race relations Doomadgee Aboriginal Reserve, Queensland -- Race relations Doomadgee Mission Station (Qld.) Doomadgee Mission Station (Qld.) -- History Doomadgee Mission Station (Qld.) -- Race relations Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552 Author Trigger, David S. (David Samuel), 1953- LC no. 91021376 ISBN 052140181X

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