The Murranji land claim / by P. Sutton, L. Coltheart and A. McGrath
- Bib ID:
- 2187935
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Sutton, Peter, 1946-
- Description:
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- Darwin : Northern Land Council, 1983
- 156 leaves, : ill., maps, ports. ; 30 cm.
- Summary:
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Includes first contacts of Mudbura and Djingili people with European exploring expeditions, overland telegraph line construction and adaptation to pastoral settlement and police work; impact of government policies in World War II army labour camps and post-war welfare administration; land relationships and social structures, sites, mythology (including bird and snake dreamings), subsistence patterns.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Murranji Track
- Land tenure -- Northern Territory -- Murranji Track
- Stories and motifs - Birds
- Habitation - Camps
- Transport - Road - Roads and tracks
- Defence - Armed forces - Veterans
- Mythology
- Stories and motifs - Snakes
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Religion - Totemism
- Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes
- Ceremonies
- Jingulu / Djingili / Jingili people (C22) (NT SE53-06)
- Land rights - Claims, disputes, hearings
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Moieties
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Defence - World War II
- Language - Linguistics
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Language - Kriol - Pidgins and creoles - Torres Strait Creole
- Sites - Dreaming tracks
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Mudburra people (C25) (NT SE53-05)
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
- Social identity - Mixed descent
- Communications - Telecommunications - Telegraphy
- Sites - Ceremonial grounds
- Land rights - Pastoral industry
- Jingulu / Djingili / Jingili language (C22) (NT SE53-06)
- Land rights - Crown land
- Occupations
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Law enforcement - Police trackers
- Macumba (SA Central Australia SG53-15)
- Murranji (North NT SE53-01)
- Newcastle Waters map area (Central NT Tanami Desert, North NT SE53-05)
- Northern Territory - Central NT
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Until 2033 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1983
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