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Australian settler colonialism and the Cummeragunja Aboriginal Station redrawing boundaries /

In 1938, the anthropologist Norman Tindale gave a classroom of young Aboriginal children a set of crayons and asked them to draw. The children, residents of the government-run Aboriginal station Cummeragunja, mostly drew pictures of aspects of white civilization boats, houses and flowers. What now t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Fiona (Fiona Lee)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2014.
Colección:First Nations and the colonial encounter.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Key Organisations
  • Map of Cummeragunja and surrounding area
  • Introduction: Redrawing Boundaries
  • Place
  • Settler colonial foundations
  • My narrators
  • A word on boundaries
  • 1 From Religious Mission to Government Station
  • The Matthews and the Aborigines Protection Association
  • Moving from Maloga
  • 2 A Teacher of Unrest?
  • Taking back farm blocks and an "open breach of friendship"
  • The 1919 influenza and tensions
  • Remembering Thomas James
  • Reflections
  • 3 Missionary Work and "Getting On"
  • Labouring for the Lord on Cummeragunja
  • "Our brother" Russell
  • Miss M.E. McAulay
  • 4 The Question of Religious Control
  • A wonderful incident
  • Healthcare on Cummeragunja
  • The Christian Endeavour movement
  • Reflections
  • 5 Cross-Cultural Encounters and Everyday Boundaries
  • Thinking about racial experience
  • School days at Barmah
  • Cross-cultural friendships and sexual unions
  • Reflections
  • 6 Reading of Aboriginal Progress
  • The procession
  • Remembering a dying race and a growing white interest
  • Reflections
  • 7 White Men Watching
  • The foundations
  • Local white experts
  • The community speaks
  • The legacy
  • Reflections
  • 8 Resisting Control
  • An inquiry
  • Lobbying and a polio outbreak
  • 9 The Walk-Off
  • McQuiggin and the Board
  • The legacy
  • Reflections
  • 10 New Beginnings
  • Post war years and attempts to close the Barmah hotel
  • Attempts to close Cummeragunja
  • A new start
  • Conclusion: Beyond the Boundaries
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.