Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Imprint -- CONTENTS -- Dedication -- Note of Warning -- On Words -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Map: Aboriginal Places in Victoria -- Reflections -- Part One: Wild Times 1800-1850 -- 1 Meeting Strangers -- 2 Melbourne, an Aboriginal Domain -- 3 Countering Civilisers -- 4 Accommodating Sheep Herders -- 5 Dangerous Frontiers -- Part Two: Transformations 1850-1886 -- 6 Negotiating Two Worlds -- 7 New Communities -- 8 Country 'Wanderers' -- 9 A 'Miserable Spadeful of Ground' -- Part Three: Assimilationism 1886-1970 -- 10 Under the Acts
11 'Old Lake Tyers' -- 12 Fighting for Framlingham -- 13 Country Campers -- 14 Melbourne and Aboriginal Activism -- 15 Assimilation and its Challengers -- Part Four: Renaissance 1970 Onwards -- 16 Seeking Autonomy -- 17 Being Aboriginal -- 18 New Day Dawning? -- Appendix -- Recommended Reading -- Endnotes -- Index
