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Author Clayton-Dixon, Callum, 1994-, author

Title Surviving New England : a history of Aboriginal resistance & resilience through the first forty years of the colonial apocalypse / Callum Clayton-Dixon ; foreword by Gabi Briggs ; illustrations by Narmi Collins-Widders
Published Armidale, New South Wales : Anaiwan Language Revival Program, ©2019
©2019

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 MELB  305.89915 Cla/Sne  AVAILABLE
Description viii, 176 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 21cm
Summary Clouded by the great conspiracy of silence, the dominant myth of peaceful settlement, and the proliferation of Eurocentric narratives touting the achievements of explorers and pastoral pioneers, our people's remarkable history of resistance and survival during the first few decades of the occupation has faded into obscurity. It is this history which Surviving New England sets out to reclaim, co-opting the colonial archive and subverting the colonial narrative, deconstructing their story in order to uncover our own
Analysis Australian
Notes Illustrations and information on end papers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- History -- Sources
Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- New England
Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Armidale -- History
Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- Maps
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- Colonisation
Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- Sources
SUBJECT Australia -- History -- Sources
Author Briggs, Gabi, 1990-, writer of foreword
Collins-Widders, Narmi
Anaiwan Language Revival Program, issuing body
ISBN 9780646812397