Waterloo Creek : the Australia Day massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British conquest of New South Wales / Roger Milliss
- Bib ID:
- 3031733
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Milliss, Roger, 1934-
- Description:
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- Ringwood, Vic. : McPhee Gribble, 1992
- xxiii, 965 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0869141562
- Summary:
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Detailed account of the contact history and political background to race relations in early colonial New South Wales; Kamilaroi territorial groupings, traditional subsistance social organisation, religion and language; pastoral expansion, government policy and attitudes toward Aborigines; violent conflict and the legal and political response; Waterloo Creek, Slaughterhouse Creek, Gravesend and Myall Creek massacres; subsequent inquiries; establishment of the Australian Aborigines Protection Society and Aboriginal Protectorate; comparison with the Battle of Endeavour Lane - Moree, 1982.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Maps on lining papers.
- Bibliography: p. 913-925.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Waterloo Creek Region -- History -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Waterloo Creek Region -- Crimes against
- Massacres -- New South Wales -- Waterloo Creek Region
- Kamilaroi (Australian people)
- Social organisation
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi people (D23) (NSW SH55-12)
- Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi language (D23) (NSW SH55-12)
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1788-1850
- Settlement and contacts
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Politics and Government - National symbols and events - Australia Day / Survival Day
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry
- Food - Food industry - Meatworks and abattoirs
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Government policy - State and territory - New South Wales
- New South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851
- Moree (N NSW SH55-08)
- Waterloo (Central NT SE52-03)
- Myall Creek (N NSW SH56-05)
- Gravesend (N NSW SH56-05)
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1992
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