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 33
... Keating outlined how men on Bolivia Station were mustered and armed, then set out on the track of Aborigines to Pyes Creek on the western boundary of the property. According to Keating's story the Aboriginals were then attacked at Pyes ...
... Keating outlined how men on Bolivia Station were mustered and armed, then set out on the track of Aborigines to Pyes Creek on the western boundary of the property. According to Keating's story the Aboriginals were then attacked at Pyes ...
Seite 36
... taken from a letter Thomas Keating wrote in 1925 to JF Thomas, who was seeking information about Bolivia Station and the massacre for his own records of the history of Tenterfield. Keating's original letter is 36 The Keating version.
... taken from a letter Thomas Keating wrote in 1925 to JF Thomas, who was seeking information about Bolivia Station and the massacre for his own records of the history of Tenterfield. Keating's original letter is 36 The Keating version.
Seite 37
... Keating's memory of another old man's story some eighty years after the event is accurate relies on Keating's localness. It is his being-there-ness, his location, his position as 'one time overseer' that inspired Thomas to write to him ...
... Keating's memory of another old man's story some eighty years after the event is accurate relies on Keating's localness. It is his being-there-ness, his location, his position as 'one time overseer' that inspired Thomas to write to him ...
Seite 38
... Keating's extract intends to motivate the tourist — and possibly the local, now and then — to pause at the Bluff Viewing Area (which has barbecues, toilets and picnic shelters) and look at the rock, but it also serves a number of other ...
... Keating's extract intends to motivate the tourist — and possibly the local, now and then — to pause at the Bluff Viewing Area (which has barbecues, toilets and picnic shelters) and look at the rock, but it also serves a number of other ...
Seite 39
... Keating's version of the massacre, in its simple narrative of horror, hides the stories of both the successful efforts of Aboriginal people to prevent 'settlement' and the increasingly systematised work of 'settlers' and governments to ...
... Keating's version of the massacre, in its simple narrative of horror, hides the stories of both the successful efforts of Aboriginal people to prevent 'settlement' and the increasingly systematised work of 'settlers' and governments to ...
Inhalt
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32 | |
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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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