Looking for Blackfellas' Point : an Australian history of place
McKenna, Mark, 1959-2002
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Blackfella's Point lies on the Towamba River in south-eastern New South Wales. This work is a history for every Australian who is interested in the story of settler-Australia's relations with indigenous people, what happened between them, and how they came to confront the truth about their past.
Main title:
Looking for Blackfellas' Point : an Australian history of place / Mark Mckenna.
Author:
Imprint:
Sydney, N.S.W. : UNSW Press, 2002.
Collation:
xvii, 269 pages : illustrations , ports, maps. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.Bibliography: pages 261-264.
Contents:
Introduction. Looking for Blackfellas' Point I -- Looking for Blackfellas' Point II. Part I: Discussion. 1. 'Without treaty, bargain or apology' -- 'Quietly, the Aborigines submitted' -- 2. Did the NSW Government and the Colonial Office intend that the rights of Aboriginal people in south-eastern New South Wales be protected? -- 'What might have been'. Part II: Forgetting. 3. 'A cult of disremembering'? -- 'This wonderful invasion' -- 4. Emily's story -- Making settler history. Part III: Abandonment. 5. The architecture of grace -- 'Waiting for civilisation - longing for home' -- 6. Agent of civilisation -- 'This black mother earth': the journals of Oswald Brierly -- 7. 'Victims of singular neglect' -- Waiting for Eden. Part IV: Confrontation. 8. New history, new politics -- 'We are all one': Aboriginal people in Eden-Monaro, 1860-1960 -- 9. 'Friendly but firm discrimination': the fight for Aboriginal housing in Bega, 1960-1970 -- 10. Raising a different flag: the struggle for Aboriginal rights in south-eastern New South Wales in the 1970s -- 11. 'A very hurting thing': apologising for history. Conclusion. Looking for Blackfella's Point III.
ISBN:
0868406449 (paperback)
Dewey class:
994.4004
Local class:
994.4004
Language:
English
Subject:
Reynolds, Henry, 1938-Stanner, W. E. H. (William Edward Hanley), 1905-1981Brierly, Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.), 1817-1894Thomas, Guboo Ted, 1909-2002Mumbler, Percy, 1907-1991Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- New South WalesFrontier and pioneer life -- New South WalesFrontier and pioneer life -- New South Wales -- Eden RegionAboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Treatment -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Social conditions -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Government relationsAboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Eden Region -- Social conditionsAboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- New South Wales -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Eden Region -- Government relationsAboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- New South WalesAboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- New South Wales -- Bega Region -- HistoryAboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- New South Wales -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Eden Region -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Bega Region -- Social conditions -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Bega Region -- Government relationsAboriginal Australians -- New South WalesEden Region (N.S.W.) -- HistoryEden Region (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customsNew South Wales -- Race relations -- History
BRN:
2301
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 994.4004 LOO | Available |