Hidden histories : black stories from Victoria River Downs, Humbert River and Wave Hill Stations / Deborah Bird Rose
- Bib ID:
- 1107178
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rose, Deborah Bird, 1946-2018
- Description:
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- Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1991
- xxiv, 268 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0855752246 (paperback)
- Summary:
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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.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 267-268.
- Subject:
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- Humbert River Homestead (N.T.) -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Treatment -- History
- Mudburra people (C25) (NT SE53-05)
- Employment - Labour market - Women
- Ngarinman / Ngarinyman language (C27) (NT SE52-01)
- Settlement and contacts
- Malngin people (K30) (WA SE52-06)
- Law enforcement - Police trackers
- Bilinara people (N36) (NT SD52-16)
- Land rights - Claims, disputes, hearings
- Mudburra language (C25) (NT SE53-05)
- Ngaliwuru language (N19) (NT SE52-03)
- Ngarinman / Ngarinyman people (C27) (NT SE52-01)
- Government policy - Integration
- Wardaman people (N35) (NT SD52-16)
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Gurindji language (C20) (NT SE52-08)
- Wardaman language (N35) (NT SD52-16)
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Demography - Palaeodemography
- Settlement and contacts - 20th Century
- Transport - Road - Roads and tracks
- Employment - Conditions - Wages
- Gunindiri people (C23) (NT SE53-07)
- Gurindji people (C20) (NT SE52-08)
- Demography - Population dynamics
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Ngaliwuru people (N19) (NT SE52-03)
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes
- Gunindiri language (C23) (NT SE53-07)
- Employment - Conditions - Industrial relations - Trade unions
- Malngin language (K30) (WA SE52-06)
- Bilinara language (N36) (NT SD52-16)
- Occupations - Domestic servants
- Victoria River Downs Station (N.T.) -- History
- Wave Hill Station (N.T.) -- History
- Jasper Creek / Gorge (North NT SE52-04)
- Daguragu / Kalkaringi / Wave Hill (Central NT SE52-08)
- Timber Creek (North NT Victoria River SD52-15)
- Coolibah (North NT Victoria River SD52-16)
- Yarralin (Victoria River Downs North NT SE52-04)
- Pigeon Hole (North NT SE52-04)
- Lingarra (Victoria River Downs North NT SE52-04)
- Victoria River Downs (North NT SE52-04)
- Kidman Springs (North NT SE52-04)
- Humbert River (North NT SE52-04)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Terms of Use:
- Deborah Bird Rose 1991.
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2088 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2018
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1991
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