Title The Aboriginal story of Burke and Wills : forgotten narratives / edited by Ian D. Clark and Fred Cahir

Published Collingwood, VIC : CSIRO Publishing, [2013] Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2013 ©2013

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Description xix, 314 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), photographs (some colour), facsimiles, music, portraits ; 25 cm regular print Series ERA Collection Contents Chapter 1 The Aboriginal legacy of the Burke and Wills Expedition: an introduction / Fred Cahir -- Chapter 2 The members of the Victorian Exploring Expedition and their prior experience of Aboriginal peoples / Ian D. Clark -- Chapter 3 ̀Exploring is a killing game only to those who do not know anything about it': William Lockhart Morton and other contemporary views about the Victorian Exploring Expedition and its fate / Ian D. Clark -- Chapter 4 The use and abuse of Aboriginal ecological knowledge / Philip A. Clarke -- Chapter 5 The Aboriginal contribution to the expedition, observed through Germanic eyes / David Dodd -- Appendix 5.1 Extracts from the 1861 Anniversary Address of the Royal Society of Victoria delivered by the President, His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly KCB on 8 April 1861 -- Appendix 5.2 English translation of Beckler H (1867) Corroberri: Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Musik bei den australischen Ureinwohnern Globus 13, 82--84 -- Chapter 6 Language notes connected to the journey of the expedition as far as the Cooper / Luise Hercus -- Chapter 7 Burke and Wills and the Aboriginal people of the Corner Country / Harry Allen -- Chapter 8 ̀Devil been walk about tonight -- not devil belonging to blackfellow, but white man devil. Methink Burke and Wills cry out tonight "What for whitefellow not send horses and grub?'" An examination of Aboriginal oral traditions of colonial explorers / Fred Cahir -- Chapter 9 How did Burke die? / Darrell Lewis -- Chapter 10 Telling and retelling national narratives / Deirdre Slattery -- Chapter 11 The influence of Aboriginal country on artist and naturalist Ludwig Becker of the Victorian Exploring Expedition: Mootwingee, 1860--61 / Peta Jeffries -- Chapter 12 If I belong here...how did that come to be? / Paul Lambeth -- Chapter 13 Alfred Howitt and the erasure of Aboriginal history / Leigh Boucher -- Chapter 14 Remembering Edwin J. Welch: surveyor to Howitt's Contingent Exploration Party / Frank Leahy -- Chapter 15 ̀We have received news from the blacks': Aboriginal messengers and their reports of the Burke relief expedition (1861--62) led by John McKinlay / Fred Cahir -- Chapter 16 William Landsborough's expedition of 1862 from Carpentaria to Victoria in search of Burke and Wills: exploration with native police troopers and Aboriginal guides / Peta Jeffries -- Chapter 17 ̀I suppose this will end in our having to live like the blacks for a few months': reinterpreting the history of Burke and Wills / Fred Cahir Summary This book is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860-61. It offers a reinterpretation of the literature surrounding Burke and Wills, using official correspondence, expedition journals and diaries, visual art, and archaeological and linguistic research - and then complements this with references to Aboriginal oral histories and social memory. It highlights the interaction of expedition members with Aboriginal people and their subsequent contribution to Aboriginal studies. The book also considers contemporary and multi-disciplinary critiques that the expedition members were, on the whole, deficient in bush craft, especially in light of the expedition's failure to use Aboriginal guides in any systematic way. Generously illustrated with historical photographs and line drawings, The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is an important resource for Indigenous people, Burke and Wills history enthusiasts and the wider community Analysis Australian Australian Aboriginal studies Exploration Exploration & discovery Exploration and discovery History Modern history (c 1788-1914) Notes Maps on endpapers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index: pages 305-314 Audience Postgraduate, General Subject Burke, Robert O'Hara, 1821-1861. Wills, William John, 1834-1861. SUBJECT Burke and Wills Expedition (1860-1861) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2006027032 Subject Aboriginal Australians -- First contact with Europeans Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- Victoria -- History. Aboriginal Australians. Explorers -- Australia -- History -- 19th century. Explorers -- Australia. Explorers -- Australia -- Victoria. First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Australia -- Victoria -- History. SUBJECT Australia -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308 -- British Australia -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308 -- 1851-1891 Australia -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308 -- 1851-1900 Australia -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308 -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 Australia -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308 Victoria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046608 -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238 Author Cahir, Fred, 1963- editor Clark, Ian D., 1958- editor LC no. 2013433560 ISBN 9780643108080 (hardback)

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