Title People of the river : lost worlds of early Australia / Grace Karskens ; maps by Paul Irish

Published Crows Nest, N. S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2020 Crows Nest, N. S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2020 copyright2020

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Description 678 pages, 32 unnumberd pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps, genealogical tables ; 23 cm Contents Appendix 1 : English, Aboriginal and scientific names of plants in the Hawkesbury-Nepean region Summary Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, is where the two early Australias - ancient and modern - first collided. People of the River journeys into the lost worlds of the Aboriginal people and the settlers of Dyarubbin, both complex worlds with ancient roots. The settlers who took land on the river from the mid-1790s were there because of an extraordinary experiment devised half a world away. Modern Australia was not founded as a gaol, as we usually suppose, but as a colony. Britain's felons, transported to the other side of the world, were meant to become settlers in the new colony. They made history on the river: it was the first successful white farming frontier, a community that nurtured the earliest expressions of patriotism, and it became the last bastion of eighteenth-century ways of life. The Aboriginal people had occupied Dyarubbin for at least 50,000 years. Their history, culture and spirituality were inseparable from this river Country. Colonisation kicked off a slow and cumulative process of violence, theft of Aboriginal children and ongoing annexation of the river lands. Yet despite that sorry history, Dyarubbin's Aboriginal people managed to remain on their Country, and they still live on the river today. The Hawkesbury-Nepean was the seedbed for settler expansion and invasion of Aboriginal lands to the north, south and west. It was the crucible of the colony, and the nation that followed Analysis Australian Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 546-654) and index Subject Ethnic relations -- History Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- History Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- New South Wales Colonists -- New South Wales -- History Aboriginal Australians -- History Colonists -- Australia -- History Dharug / Darug language S64 Aboriginal Australians. Colonists. Colonisation Settlement and contacts - 18th Century Settlement and contacts - 19th Century Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850 Settlement and contacts - Penal colonies / Convicts Settlement and contacts - Settlers Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture Government policy - Initial period and protectionism Government policy - State and territory - New South Wales Race relations - Representation - History Race relations - Violent Sites - Assemblages, sequences and analysis Art - Rock art Art - Rock art - Engraving Art - Art motifs - Hand Technology - Stone Technology - Stone - Axes / hatchets Technology - Stone - Grindstones Child welfare - Child / parent separation Religions - Christianity - Missions Religion - Dreaming - Baiame Religion - Dreaming - Dharumalan Culture - Relationship to land Language - Vocabulary - Plant names Dharug / Darug people S64 Eora people S61 Kuringgai people S62 History - Frontier conflict - New South Wales Ethnic relations. SUBJECT New South Wales -- Emigration and immigration -- History New South Wales -- Social conditions New South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851 New South Wales -- Ethnic relations -- History Hawkesbury River Region (N.S.W.) -- History Nepean River Region (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1788-1851 Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.) -- History Nepean River (N.S.W.) -- History Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 Australia -- Ethnic relations -- History Subject Australia. Hawkesbury River area (N Sydney NSW SI56-05) Penrith / Nepean River (W Sydney NSW SI56-05) Emu Plains / Lapstone Creek (Penrith, W Sydney NSW SI56-05) Parramatta (W Sydney NSW SI56-05) Blacktown (W Sydney NSW SI56-05) Windsor (N Sydney area NSW SI56-05) Richmond (N Sydney area NSW SI56-05) Wisemans Ferry (NSW SI56-05) Sackville (NSW SI56-05) Blue Mountains (W Sydney NSW SI56-05) Genre/Form History. Author Irish, Paul, cartographer ISBN 9781760292232 (paperback)

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