Bluff RockFremantle Press, 01.01.2005 - 268 Seiten "The past is a problem for us. We know certain events happened, sometimes exactly when and yet our longing for certainty cannot be satisfied ... we tell stories about where we come from and who we are. We change these stories sometimes minutely, sometimes radically ... This is an original and courageous book. Schlunke, who grew up in the New England area, takes this one story — the massacre(s) of Aborigines at Bluff Rock, in New England during the 1840s — and looks at the many ways it is organised as a memory of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. Schlunke breaks new ground as she probes the 'hidden histories' of Indigenous-settler encounters and addresses herself urgently to the problems of 'history' in Australia." |
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Seite 12
... Aboriginal people died is not to know anything at all. That Aboriginal people were killed was another way of saying Aboriginal people did not exist now. There is an echo of the child's fascination with dinosaurs in this. How could ...
... Aboriginal people died is not to know anything at all. That Aboriginal people were killed was another way of saying Aboriginal people did not exist now. There is an echo of the child's fascination with dinosaurs in this. How could ...
Seite 13
... Aboriginal people died did not have the effect it should have. It was not the sort of moral tale that automatically ... people. And I didn't know that Aboriginal people fought back. I didn't know about the connections between massacre ...
... Aboriginal people died did not have the effect it should have. It was not the sort of moral tale that automatically ... people. And I didn't know that Aboriginal people fought back. I didn't know about the connections between massacre ...
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... people and places who are simultaneously past and present and re-emerging ... works for as long as the job requires it to. Dog kennels out of drums, chook sheds out of ... Aboriginal can write Australian history after the many Aboriginal ...
... people and places who are simultaneously past and present and re-emerging ... works for as long as the job requires it to. Dog kennels out of drums, chook sheds out of ... Aboriginal can write Australian history after the many Aboriginal ...
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... Aboriginal people by Irby and all available station hands. Killing some Aboriginal people near a creek, he wrote, they then chased the remaining members of the group up the back of Bluff Rock and threw them off the top.3 During the ...
... Aboriginal people by Irby and all available station hands. Killing some Aboriginal people near a creek, he wrote, they then chased the remaining members of the group up the back of Bluff Rock and threw them off the top.3 During the ...
Seite 38
... Aboriginal presence is responded to with a colonial power so overwhelming that resistance is impossible. The bonded labour and squatters are made so powerful that they can literally throw the Aboriginal people from their land — 'killing ...
... Aboriginal presence is responded to with a colonial power so overwhelming that resistance is impossible. The bonded labour and squatters are made so powerful that they can literally throw the Aboriginal people from their land — 'killing ...
Inhalt
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WHAT KEATING HEARD | 64 |
LOCAL KNOWHOW | 104 |
MR IRBY ACCOUNTS | 141 |
HORSES AND DEATH | 196 |
THE DISAPPEARING
WINDEYER | 221 |
MAKING ENDS MEET | 248 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 257 |
NOTES | 259 |
REFERENCES AND WORKS CITED | 267 |
INDEX | 270 |
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