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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brighton ; Chicago :
Sussex Academic Press,
2014.
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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.