On plantation creek : a community history of the Australian South Sea Islanders in the Burdekin Shire / Lincoln Hayes in association with the Burdekin's Australian South Sea Islander community and the Burdekin Shire Council
121 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 30 cm
Summary
History and culture of the Australian South Sea Islanders and of their arrival in Australia; recruitment, often by force, for work in Queensland from 1860's; working conditions and life on plantations; racism and 'coloured' labour; missions and Christianity; White Australia policy; deportations, 1904-08; life after end of indentured labour system; political action; sporting abilities; recognition by historians, the media and governments as a distinct cultural group, previously being confused with, and grouped with, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; history of the Islanders in the Burdekin region; photographs and history of some Islander heritage sites in Burdekin Shire