LEADER 03231nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910817378003321 005 20241108075906.0 010 $a0-7022-4818-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000001131967 035 $a(EBL)1020903 035 $a(OCoLC)815973343 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000721228 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12279881 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721228 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10687328 035 $a(PQKB)11511606 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1020903 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001131967 100 $a20120809d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe mind of a thief /$fPatti Miller 210 $aSt Lucia, Qld. $cUniversity of Queensland Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7022-4936-X 311 $a1-306-00425-X 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a23 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 330 $a

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