Social history of Dhan-Gadi people of Macleay River showing how they were affected by government policy; through resistance to colonial process, suffered massacres by settlers and police; were incorporated into economy through clearing bush and stock work; segregated into reserves at Bellbrook, Burnt Bridge by Aboriginal Protection Board, followed by assimilation policies of Aboriginal Welfare Board; with self-determination, services improved within non-Aboriginal framework; racism in Kempsey, housing and discrimination, break up of tight -knit reserve communities into dispersed nuclear families; question of maintaining identity; protection of Aboriginal heritage sites in conflict with principle of restricted access and knowledge gained through initiation ceremonies
Analysis
New South Wales Dhan-gadi, history
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 236-246
Notes
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
