| | The history of oppression: references We cannot here trace out the subsequent history of the oppression of the Australian Aborigines by the whites and the systematic annexation of their lands. We hope, however, that you will study some of the following references: | | Margaret Ann Franklin, Black and white Australians: an inter- racial history, 1788- 1975, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1976. An excellent account at a popular level. | | | Noel Loos, Invasion and resistance: Aboriginal relations on north Queensland frontier 1861- 1897, ANU Press, Canberra, 1982. | | | Noel Loos & Jane Thomson, "Black resistance past and present: an overview" in Erik Olbrei (ed.), Black Australians: the prospects for change, Students Union, James Cook University, Townsville, 1982, pp. 9-32. | | | Henry Reynolds, Aborigines and settlers: the Australian experience, 1788- 1939, Cassell, Melbourne, 1972. | | | Henry Reynolds, The other side of the frontier, Penguin, Ringwood, Vic, 1982. | | | Henry Reynolds, "European justification for taking the land", in Erik Olbrei (ed.), Black Australians: the prospects for change, Students Union, James Cook University, Townsville, 1982, pp. 2-6. | | | C. D. Rowley, The destruction of Aboriginal society, ANU Press, Canberra, 1970. | | | C. D. Rowley, A matter of justice, ANU Press, Canberra, 1978. | | | Bernard Smith, The spectre of Truganini, 1980 Boyer Lectures, ABC Sydney, 1980. | | | W. E.H. Stanner, After the Dreaming, 1968 Boyer Lectures, ABC, Sydney, 1968. Reprinted in White Man got no Dreaming, ANU Press, Canberra, 1979, pp. 198-248. | For a general bibliography see Diane Barwick, Michael Mace & Tom Stannage (eds), Handbook for Aboriginal and Islander history, Aboriginal History, Canberra, 1979. A history of the land rights movement Beginnings A number of land claims had been made in the past by Aborigines. In 1859, for example, a deputation from the Woimurrung and Taungerong peoples met Government officials in Melbourne to make a claim for 4 500 acres. -19- | |