| Description |
ix, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Contact history of Victoria River Downs, Wave Hill and Humbert River Stations based on Aboriginal oral accounts; brief outline of Prehistory, traditional culture and territorial groupings (Ngarinman, Mudbura, Bilinara, Ngaliwurru, Karangpurru, Wardaman, Gurindji, Malngin); Captain Cook mythology and the contradictions of the early settlement; case studies of killings examined; role of police and police trackers; destruction of the Karangpurru and Nyiwanawu; Humbert River Mudbura Aboriginal Reserve; Aboriginal perception of social justice; wages and unionism; Vesteys and Borril labour and production management; effects of Welfare policies; station violence, interpersonal relations and sexual conflict; accounts of working lives on stations; demographic estimates; impact of the Wave Hill strike (1966); the Gibb Committee; establishment of Daguragu, Yarralin, Lingara, and Pigeon Hole communities; Stokes Range, Timber Creek, Kidman Springs - Jasper Gorge, Bilinara land claims |
| Contents |
1. Early history -- 2. Captain Cook -- 3. Savages -- 4. Shot like a dog -- 5. Captives -- 6. Alligator Tommy -- 7. Circling around -- 8. Karangpuru deathscape -- 9. Gradually the natives quietened -- 10. The quality of mercy -- 11. Blackfellow wars -- 12. Nyiwanawu and Bilinara deathscapes -- 13. Brigalow Bill and old Gordon -- 14. Humbert river -- 15. Prisoners and unions -- 16. Making stations rich -- 17. Terror -- 18. Total power -- 19. An economy of sex -- 20. Years and years -- 21. Victoria River downs deathscape -- 22. Humbert Tommy -- 23. Strike -- 24. Yarralin, Lingara and Pigeon hole -- 25. Land claims. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page [267]-268 |
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Humbert River Homestead (N.T.) -- Biography.
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Humbert River Homestead (N.T.) -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Northern Territory -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography.
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Ranch life -- Northern Territory -- Biography.
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Farm life -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography.
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Aboriginal Australian stockmen
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Bilinarra language N36.
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Bilinarra people N36.
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Gunindirri language C23.
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Gunindirri people C23.
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Gurindji language C20.
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Gurindji people C20.
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Malngin language K30.
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Malngin people K30.
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Mudburra language C25.
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Mudburra people C25.
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Ngaliwurru language N19.
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Ngaliwurru people N19.
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Ngarinyman language C27.
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Ngarinyman people C27.
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Wardaman language N35.
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Wardaman people N35.
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Settlement and contacts.
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Settlement and contacts - 20th Century.
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Demography - Palaeodemography.
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Demography - Population dynamics.
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Occupations - Domestic servants.
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Employment - Conditions - Industrial relations - Trade unions.
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Employment - Conditions - Wages.
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Employment - Labour market - Women.
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Settlement and contacts - Explorers.
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Government policy - Assimilation.
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Government policy - Integration.
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Land rights - Claims, disputes, hearings.
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Occupations - Pastoral industry workers.
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Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes.
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Law enforcement - Police trackers.
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Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900.
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Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping.
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Transport - Road - Roads and tracks.
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Timber Creek (North NT Victoria River SD52-15).
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Coolibah (North NT Victoria River SD52-16).
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Humbert River (North NT SE52-04).
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Jasper Creek / Gorge (North NT SE52-04).
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Kidman Springs (North NT SE52-04).
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Lingarra (Victoria River Downs North NT SE52-04).
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Nitjpurru / Pigeon Hole (North NT SE52-04).
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Victoria River Downs (North NT SE52-04).
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Yarralin (Victoria River Downs North NT SE52-04).
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Pigeon Hole (North NT SE52-04).
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Daguragu / Kalkaringi / Wave Hill (Central NT SE52-08).
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Humbert River Homestead (N.T.) -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Reservations
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
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Farm life -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography
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Ranch life -- Australia -- Northern Territory
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Ranch life -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography
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Humbert River (Homestead : N.T.) -- Biography
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Humbert River (Homstead : N.T.) -- History
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Humbert River Homestead (N.T.) -- History
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Humbert River Station (N.T.)
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Victoria River Downs (N.T.)
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Victoria River Downs (N.T.) -- Biography
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Victoria River Downs (N.T.) -- History
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Victoria River Downs Station (N.T.) -- History
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Wave Hill Station (N.T.)
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Wave Hill Station (N.T.) -- Biography
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Wave Hill Station (N.T.) -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Indigenous Knowledges Resources Collection
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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History.
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| Author |
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
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| LC no. |
92104388 |
| ISBN |
0855752246 |
