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The Gulf Country : the Story of People and Place in Outback Queensland.
The story of the resilient people who make their home in Australia's far north, from the 'wild time' of the frontier days to the present.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney :
Allen & Unwin,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Imprint page; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; A note on the images; Map of the Gulf Country; Chapter 1: The Gulf Country; Chapter 2: Wild Time; The first explorers; The establishment of Burketown; Drinking and dying on the Australian frontier; Settlement and abandonment; The arrival of the Native Police and the impact of violence on Aboriginal people in Wild Time; Chapter 3: The Plains of Promise; The early stations; Aboriginal involvement in the pastoral industry in the early days; Chapter 4: Gulf stations in the twentieth century
- Early developments in the pastoral industrySubdivisions and consolidations; From sheep to cattle; The arrival of motor vehicles; Work life on the stations; Mustering and branding; Droving; Gardening and cooking; Social life; Aboriginal involvement in the pastoral industry in the early twentieth century; Chapter 5: Early days in Burketown; Burketown in the early twentieth century; Aboriginal settlements around Burketown; The arrival of the missionaries; Burketown in decline; Back to Burketown; Chapter 6: Chinese history in the Gulf Country; The long walk; Sam Ah Bow; Willie Sou Kee
- Yuen Kim HookIndigenous identity and mixed ancestry in the Gulf Country; Chapter 7: The end of an era in the pastoral industry; From Shorthorn to Brahman; From droving teams to road trains; From leg roping in mobile mustering camps to helicopters and the cradle; From call signs to satellite phones; From family-owned properties to financial assets; The end of Aboriginal employment on the stations; Chapter 8: Equal rights, mining and the campaign for native title; Land rights and contests over bush resources; Native title and the Century Mine; Chapter 9: Nijinda Durlga-My Country
- The resolution of native land claimsManaging Country; Conflict and coexistence; Picture Section; Further reading about the Gulf Country; Endnotes; Index