Introduction / John Henderson and David Nash -- Language and native title / John Henderson -- Linguistic evidence and native title cases in Australia / Peter Sutton -- Linguistic continuity in colonised country / Jeanie Bell -- Country and the word: linguistic evidence in the Croker Sea claim / Nicholas Evans -- Linguistics and the Yorta Yorta native title claim / Heather Bowe -- The language of the Peak Hill Aboriginal people: a linguistic report in a native title claim / Tamsin Donaldson -- Labels, language and native title groups: the Miriuwung-Gajerrong case / Greg McIntyre and Kim Doohan -- Historical linguistic geography of south-east Western Australia / David Nash -- Language ownership: a key issue for native title / Michael Walsh -- Can lexicostatistics contribute an absolute time-scale to discussions of continuity of occupation in native title determinations? / Barry Alpher -- Linguistic stratigraphy and native title: the case of ethnonyms / Patrick McConvell -- Making your skin fit properly: displaced equivalence in 'skin' systems in the Barkly / Gavan Breen -- Linguistics and native title / John Henderson
Summary
"This volume has its origin in a workshop on Linguistic Issues in Native Title held at the University of Western Australia on 2 October 1999."
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references: pages 308-310
