Peopling the Cleland Hills: Aboriginal History in Western Central Australia 1850-1980

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Peopling the Cleland Hills: Aboriginal history in western Central Australia 1850-1980

Michael A Smith

Aboriginal History, Canberra (Monograph 12), 2005, 103pp, ISBN 0958563780

Peopling the Cleland Hills--the latest in the excellent series of Aboriginal History monographs which have covered topics such as biographies, population, stolen children, Indigenous farming and cultural boundaries--is an excellent study of one small part of Australia and its people. Professionals who chose Indigenous studies may form close and lasting relationships with their informants and in time become the conduit for the telling of their stories. An early book in this genre was …