Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 39
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Description
Volume 39 presents a special section on Aboriginal war service, edited by Allison Cadzow, Kristyn Harman and Noah Riseman. The contributors reappraise narratives and foster new avenues of inquiry, particularly on the impact of war service on families and communities, and explore how the entrance of Aboriginal men into Australian military service disrupted accustomed notions of defence of country. John Maynard extends this service back to the South African Anglo-Boer War. Andrea Gerrard and Kristyn Harman track the aftermath of the First World War for Tasmanian soldiers of Aboriginal descent. Philippa Scarlett challenges the ‘mateship myth’ of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) of the First World War. The denial of repatriation benefits fuelled Aboriginal people’s post-war disenchantment and the political agitation of the 1920s and 1930s, as Jessica Horton shows. She finds it was demand for land exacerbated by the Soldier Settlement Scheme that precipitated the closure of reserves, creating a new ‘home front’ for Gunditjmara veterans resisting ongoing dispossession. Kristyn Harman looks at correspondence between white women and Aboriginal soldiers during the Second World War as overseen by the Aborigines Uplift Society’s national comforts auxiliary.
In the other articles in this volume, Sharon Delmege investigates policy implementation at Allawah Grove Native Settlement (1957–69). Anne O’Brien focuses on provisioning at Ernabella mission, South Australia in 1937. Steven Anderson looks at Indigenous executions in colonial South Australia, where public hangings were reintroduced, but only for Indigenous capital offenders. Greg Blyton casts light on the little-known story of Harry Brown, guide to Ludwig Leichhardt on two expeditions into the interior. Robin Barrington provides a corrective to the colonial visual archive in her examination of public constructions of Yamaji individuals by Daisy Bates and Alexander Morton.
Aboriginal History Inc. is a publishing organisation based in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra.
For more information on Aboriginal History Inc. please visit aboriginalhistory.org.au.
Details
- ISSN (print):
- 0314-8769
- ISSN (online):
- 1837-9389
- Publication date:
- Dec 2015
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/AH.39.2015
- Journal:
- Aboriginal History Journal
- Co-publisher:
- Aboriginal History
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: History; Social Sciences: Indigenous Studies
- Countries:
- Australia
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Articles
- Punishment as pacification: The role of Indigenous executions on the South Australian frontier, 1836–1862 (PDF, 244KB) – Steven Anderson doi
- Unravelling the Yamaji imaginings of Alexander Morton and Daisy Bates (PDF, 4.3MB) – Robin Barrington doi
- Harry Brown (c. 1819–1854): Contribution of an Aboriginal guide in Australian exploration (PDF, 372KB) – Greg Blyton doi
- Allawah Grove Native Settlement: Housing and assimilation (PDF, 228KB) – Sharon Delmege doi
- Hunger and the humanitarian frontier (PDF, 182KB) – Anne O’Brien doi
Special Section: Aboriginal War Service – Edited by Allison Cadzow, Kristyn Harman and Noah Riseman
- Introduction: Diversifying the black diggers’ histories (PDF, 128KB) – Noah Riseman doi
- ‘Let us go’ … it’s a ‘Blackfellows’ War’: Aborigines and the Boer War (PDF, 518KB) – John Maynard doi
- Aboriginal service in the First World War: Identity, recognition and the problem of mateship (PDF, 201KB) – Philippa Scarlett doi
- Lives twisted out of shape! Tasmanian Aboriginal soldiers and the aftermath of the First World War (PDF, 203KB) – Andrea Gerrard and Kristyn Harman doi
- ‘Willing to fight to a man’: The First World War and Aboriginal activism in the Western District of Victoria (PDF, 216KB) – Jessica Horton doi
- ‘The families were … too poor to send them parcels’: The provision of comforts to Aboriginal soldiers in the AIF in the Second World War (PDF, 461KB) – Kristyn Harman doi
Book Reviews
- Amongst Stone Age People in the Queensland Wilderness (PDF, 123KB) – by Eric Mjöberg
- The Aranda’s Pepa: An Introduction to Carl Strehlow’s Masterpiece, Die Aranda-und Loritja‑Stamme in Zentral Australien (1907–1920) (PDF, 97KB) – by Anna Kenny
- The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (PDF, 115KB) – by Nicholas Clements
- Drawn from the Ground: Sound, Sign and Inscription in Central Australian Sand Stories (PDF, 111KB) – by Jennifer Green
- Encounters with Indigeneity: Writing about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (PDF, 104KB) – by Jeremy Beckett
- Fighting Hard: The Victorian Aborigines Advancement League (PDF, 94KB) – by Richard Broome
- The Invincibles. New Norcia’s Aboriginal cricketers 1879–1906 (PDF, 88KB) – by Bob Reece
- In the Eye of the Beholder: What Six Nineteenth‑Century Women Tell Us about Indigenous Authority and Identity (PDF, 107KB) – by Barbara Dawson
- Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment (PDF, 96KB) – by Thalia Anthony
- James Grassie: Poet and Aboriginal Story Teller of Victoria (PDF, 120KB) – by Andrew Peake
- Macassan History and Heritage: Journeys, Encounters and Influences (PDF, 111KB) – edited by Marshall Clark and Sally K. May
- Message From Mungo (PDF, 99KB) – by Andrew Pike and Ann McGrath
- On Track: Searching out the Bundian Way (PDF, 138KB) – by John Blay
- Remembering the Future: Warlpiri Life Through the Prism of Drawing (PDF, 136KB) – by Melinda Hinkson
- Warrior: A Legendary Leader’s Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier (PDF, 108KB) – by Libby Connors
- Yamakarra! Liza Kennedy and the Keewong Mob (PDF, 98KB) – compiled by Western Heritage Group
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