Goodbye Bussamarai : the Mandandanji land war, Southern Queensland, 1842-1852 /
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| Author / Creator: | Collins, Patrick, 1938- |
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| Imprint: | St. Lucia, QLD : University of Queensland Press, 2002. |
| Description: | xxix, 305 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4662851 |
Table of Contents:
- List of maps
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Aboriginal rebellion against ruthless white settlers on the Australian frontiers
- 1. The Mandandanji meet the whites: Too many dreams, too many cows and sheep, 1842-47
- 2. The Mandandanji escalate the land war, 1848
- 3. Commissioner Durbin brings white law to the Maranoa, 1849
- 4. Commandant Walker and his Native Police
- 5. Words were cheap: Earl Grey, 1849
- 6. The Mandandanji befriend Paddy McEnroe, 1849
- 7. The Mandandanji reject Commissioner Mitchell's authority, January-March 1850
- 8. The Dangars and the Yuleba Creek massacre, March 1850
- 9. Bussamarai's "Opera" incites the settlers, July 1850 to January 1851
- 10. "Determined hostilities" escalate demands for Native Police, February-August 1851
- 11. Law and order for the Aborigines, August-November 1851
- 12. Evidence of Native Police slaughter in late 1851
- 13. Dismantling law for the white settlers, January-April 1852
- 14. The Yamboucal massacre, May 1852
- 15. Bussamarai and the aftermath of the Yamboucal massacre, May-July 1852
- 16. More Aborigines die during Sergeant Dempster's encores, July-September 1852
- 17. Goodbye Bussamarai: 14 November 1852
- Appendix 1. The changing boundaries of the Maranoa Pastoral District
- Appendix 2. Yambugle or Yamboucal? and "Noorindoo"
- Appendix 3. Petition from Lower Condamine settlers seeking police protection
- Appendix 4. Census of white people, Maranoa Pastoral District, 7 November 1851
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
