01983oam 2200433 450 991079355510332120230721041319.00-522-86857-6(CKB)4100000007990578(MiAaPQ)EBC5751741(EXLCZ)99410000000799057820190508d2009 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPossession Batman's treaty and the matter of history /Bain Attwood with Helen DoyleCarlton, Victoria :The Miegunyah Press,2009.©20091 online resource (361 pages)0-522-85114-2 The fascinating story of the only treaties ever made in Australia.It contemplates why these agreements were forged, how the Aboriginal people understood their terms, why government repudiated them, and how settlers claimed to be the rightful owners of the land.Bain Attwood also reveals the ways in which the settler society has endeavoured to make good its act of possession—by repeatedly creating histories that have recalled or repressed the memory of Batman, the treaties, and the Aborigines' destruction and dispossession—and charts how Aboriginal people have unsettled this matter of history through their remembering.Aboriginal AustraliansLand tenureLand tenureLaw and legislationAustraliaHistoryAboriginal AustraliansLegal status, laws, etcAboriginal AustraliansLand tenure.Land tenureLaw and legislationHistory.Aboriginal AustraliansLegal status, laws, etc.346.9404320899915Attwood Bain1565087Doyle HelenMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793555103321Possession3834423UNINA