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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817378003321

Autore

Miller Patti

Titolo

The mind of a thief / / Patti Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

St Lucia, Qld., : University of Queensland Press, 2012

ISBN

0-7022-4818-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

900.00

Soggetti

Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Wellington (N.S.W.) - History

Wiradjuri (Australian people) - Australia - Wellington (N.S.W.) - History

History

Wellington (N.S.W.) History

Wellington (N NSW SI55-04)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Author biography; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Map; 1 Blackfellas; 2 Wiradjuri Land; 3 Identity Terror; 4 Dreaming; 5 Heading Home - and Leaving; 6 Keeping Out of Trouble; 7 Memory and Place; 8 The Common and Nanima Reserve; 9 In Search of an Inland Sea; 10 Who Will Talk to Me?; 11 The Mind of a Thief; 12 The Missionaries' Diaries; 13 More Inclined to Read than Work; 14 Living at Nanima Reserve; 15 Thieving Ancestors; 16 Whose Native Title?; 17 A Wild Irishman; 18 Gold; 19 Native Title Fight; 20 Native Title Histories; 21 Patrick Reidy and the Wiradjuri; 22 The Town Historian

23 Elders Usurped24 The Niece of Jimmy Governor; 25 Trying to Talk to Rose; 26 Searching for the Bora; 27 Not Taking Nonsense; 28 A Wiradjuri Man; 29 Identity; 30 Who Belongs?; 31 Australia Day; 32 Sacred Sites; 33 What Happens in Wellington; 34 Country Rose; 35 Native Title; Epilogue; Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>Exploring the history of the Wiradjuri people, the conflict of colonization, their mythologies, and their attachment to the land, author Patti Miller reveals both her own story and the position of Aboriginal people in today's society in this fascinating memoir. For 40,000 years, the Central New South Wales area of Wellington was Aboriginal Wiradjuri land.



Following the arrival of white men, it became a penal settlement, a mission station, a gold-mining town, and a farming center with a history of white comfort and black marginalization. In the l