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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... sheep Shepherding space Mustering up Fat and jolly Across country to the bluff An extraordinary claim Other letters On hearing Going there LOCAL KNOW -HOW Making it all OK The saved child The top hat Tragedy Practical demoniacs A word ...
... sheep Shepherding space Mustering up Fat and jolly Across country to the bluff An extraordinary claim Other letters On hearing Going there LOCAL KNOW -HOW Making it all OK The saved child The top hat Tragedy Practical demoniacs A word ...
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... sheep born and shorn and joined mingled with crops planted, harvested and hayed. Our lives responded almost perfectly to an anglicisation of time and seasonal order even if the land itself didn't quite correspond to the utter green of a ...
... sheep born and shorn and joined mingled with crops planted, harvested and hayed. Our lives responded almost perfectly to an anglicisation of time and seasonal order even if the land itself didn't quite correspond to the utter green of a ...
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... It was always said that the Aboriginal people were rounded up like cattle (not sheep) and driven over the edge of Bluff Rock. This was presented as a single hideous incident, unconnected to others — isolated. It was all ours.
... It was always said that the Aboriginal people were rounded up like cattle (not sheep) and driven over the edge of Bluff Rock. This was presented as a single hideous incident, unconnected to others — isolated. It was all ours.
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... laughter all rolling over us. But then what an exodus and mad meléeing when one girl found a leech on her thigh and then someone saw my father riding around the sheep on the ridge. Should we dive and risk leeches or dress like.
... laughter all rolling over us. But then what an exodus and mad meléeing when one girl found a leech on her thigh and then someone saw my father riding around the sheep on the ridge. Should we dive and risk leeches or dress like.
Seite 33
... sheep. 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 ...
... sheep. 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 ...
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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