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Black gold : Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria, 1850-1870 / Fred Cahir.

Black gold : Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria, 1850-1870 / Fred Cahir.
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ISBN 9781921862953 (pbk.)
Author Cahir, Fred
Title Black gold : Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria, 1850-1870 / Fred Cahir.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2012.
Description viii, 152 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Series Aboriginal history monograph series 25
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Preliminary; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Aboriginal people and mining; 2. Discoverers and fossickers; 3. Guiding; 4. Trackers and Native Police; Illustrations; 5. Trade, commerce and theservice sector; 6. Co-habitation; 7. Off the goldfields; 8. Social and environmental change; 9. Governments and missions; Conclusion; Select bibliography.
Summary Fred Cahir tells the story about the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first history of Aboriginal-white interaction on the Victorian goldfields, Black Gold offers new insights on one of the great epochs in Australian and world history--the gold story. In vivid detail it describes how Aboriginal people often figured significantly in the search for gold and documents the devastating social impact of gold mining on Victorian Aboriginal communities. It reveals the complexity of their involvement from passive presence, to active discovery, to shunning the goldfields. This detailed examination of Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria provides striking evidence which demonstrates that Aboriginal people participated in gold mining and interacted with non-Aboriginal people in a range of hitherto neglected ways. Running through this book are themes of Aboriginal empowerment, identity, integration, resistance, social disruption and communication.
Subjects Gold mines and mining -- Victoria -- 1851-1891
Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century
Series Aboriginal history monograph 25.
Call number 305.89915 AHM no. 25
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