x, 306 pages : illustrations, photographs, map ; 22 cm
Summary
Covers the history of indigenous involvement in Australian football in the second half of the nineteenth century. It collects new evidence to show how Aboriginal people saw the cricket and football played by those who had taken their land and resources and forced their way into their missions and stations aroung the peripheries of Victoria, South Australian and Western Australia. They learned the game and brought their own skills to it, eventually winning local leagues and earning the respect of their contemporaries. They were prevented from reaching higher levels by the gatekeepers of the domestic game until late in the twentieth century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Restricted
Mediated access: access to First Nations materials may be restricted while an audit, reparative description and reclassification of these materials is in progress
