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Hidden histories : black stories from Victoria River Downs, Humbert River, and Wave Hill Stations
- Title
- Hidden histories : black stories from Victoria River Downs, Humbert River, and Wave Hill Stations / Deborah Bird Rose.
- Author
- Rose, Deborah Bird, 1946-
- Publication
- Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GN667.N6 R673 1991 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiv, 268 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Contact history of Victoria River Downs, Wave Hill and Humbert River Stations based on Aboriginal oral accounts; brief outline of Prehistory, traditional culture and territorial groupings (Ngarinman, Mudbura, Bilinara, Ngaliwurru, Karangpurru, Wardaman, Gurindji, Malngin); Captain Cook mythology and the contradictions of the early settlement; case studies of killings examined; role of police and police trackers; destruction of the Karangpurru and Nyiwanawu; Humbert River Mudbura Aboriginal Reserve; Aboriginal perception of social justice; wages and unionism; Vesteys and Borril labour and production management; effects of Welfare policies; station violence, interpersonal relations and sexual conflict; accounts of working lives on stations; demographic estimates; impact of the Wave Hill strike (1966); the Gibb Committee; establishment of Daguragu, Yarralin, Lingara, and Pigeon Hole communities; Stokes Range, Timber Creek, Kidman Springs - Jasper Gorge, Bilinara land claims.
- Subject
- Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Northern Territory > History
- Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Northern Territory > Biography
- Ranch life > Australia > Northern Territory
- Wardaman people (N35) (NT SD52-16)
- Ngarinman / Ngarinyman language (C27) (NT SE52-01)
- Ngarinman / Ngarinyman people (C27) (NT SE52-01)
- Gunindiri people (C23) (NT SE53-07)
- Mudburra language (C25) (NT SE53-05)
- Ngaliwuru people (N19) (NT SE52-03)
- Wardaman language (N35) (NT SD52-16)
- Malngin people (K30) (WA SE52-06)
- Bilinara people (N36) (NT SD52-16)
- Mudburra people (C25) (NT SE53-05)
- Bilinara language (N36) (NT SD52-16)
- Malngin language (K30) (WA SE52-06)
- Gurindji people (C20) (NT SE52-08)
- Gurindji language (C20) (NT SE52-08)
- Gunindiri language (C23) (NT SE53-07)
- Ngaliwuru language (N19) (NT SE52-03)
- Settlement and contacts
- Employment - Labour market - Women
- Employment - Conditions - Wages
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Demography - Palaeodemography
- Demography - Population dynamics
- Occupations - Domestic servants
- Employment - Conditions - Industrial relations - Trade unions
- Land rights - Claims, disputes, hearings
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes
- Law enforcement - Police trackers
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Transport - Road - Roads and tracks
- Settlement and contacts - 20th Century
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Government policy - Integration
- Aboriginal Australians
- Ranch life
- Iwi taketake
- Victoria River Downs (North NT SE52-04)
- Yarralin (Victoria River Downs North NT SE52-04)
- Pigeon Hole (North NT SE52-04)
- Daguragu / Kalkaringi / Wave Hill (Central NT SE52-08)
- Coolibah (North NT Victoria River SD52-16)
- Timber Creek (North NT Victoria River SD52-15)
- Jasper Creek / Gorge (North NT SE52-04)
- Humbert River (North NT SE52-04)
- Kidman Springs (North NT SE52-04)
- Lingarra (Victoria River Downs North NT SE52-04)
- Northern Territory
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 1. Early history -- 2. Captain Cook -- 3. Savages -- 4. Shot like a dog -- 5. Captives -- 6. Alligator Tommy -- 7. Circling around -- 8. Karangpuru deathscape -- 9. Gradually the natives quietened -- 10. The quality of mercy -- 11. Blackfellow wars -- 12. Nyiwanawu and Bilinara deathscapes -- 13. Brigalow Bill and old Gordon -- 14. Humbert river -- 15. Prisoners and unions -- 16. Making stations rich -- 17. Terror -- 18. Total power -- 19. An economy of sex -- 20. Years and years -- 21. Victoria River downs deathscape -- 22. Humbert Tommy -- 23. Strike -- 24. Yarralin, Lingara and pigeon hole -- 25. Land claims.
- ISBN
- 0855752246
- 9780855752248
- LCCN
- 92104388
- OCLC
- ocm24405276
- 24405276
- SCSB-1939854
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library