| ISBN |
9780646802022 |
| 064680202X |
| Author |
Rhodes, Jon, 1947- (author) |
| Title |
Whitefella way / Jon Rhodes. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
[Thora, N.S.W.?] : Darkwood, 2022. |
| ©2022. |
| Description |
272 pages (some folded) : illustrations (some colour), portraits, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this book contains names and images of descendants who have died." |
| "Sequel to the award-winning Cage of Ghosts". |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Dedication -- Aborigianal tribes of Australia map -- Introduction. Burial grounds -- One. Bennelong and Collins Cove -- Two. Baluderri and Balls Head -- Three. 'A most useful native' -- Four. The grave of a native of Australia -- Five. Last of the Upper Bellinger natives -- Six. Inside Armidale Folk Museum -- Seven. Bora to burials -- Eight. Ceaseless tidal trap -- Nine. Beyond Coniston -- Afterword. The Australian Frontier War -- Acknowledgements -- Select bibliography -- Image credits -- Index. |
| Summary |
Photographer and writer Jon Rhodes once again takes the reader on nine illustrated journeys as he examines the intertwined histories of blackfellas and whitefellas at the Eora rock engravings on Grotto Point and Balls Head in Sydney. At the grace of Yuranigh south of Molong, and the tumulus of the 'Black Chief' west of Condobolin, both in Wiradjuri country. To Black Jimmy's grave at the Bellingen Cemetery, in Gumbaynggirr country. To the Armidale Folk Museum in Nganyaywana country on the New England Tableland. To the Bundjalung bora ground in the Tucki Tucki General Cemetery south of Lismore. And to the Gubbi Gubbi stone-walled fish trap at Sandstone Point on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. In the final chapter Rhodes investigates the mass killing of Walpiri, Anmatyerre, Kaytej and Warumungu in the Northern Territory - the 1928 Coniston Massacre - and again asks, when will the fundamental truth of the 140-year-long Australian Frontier War be wholeheartedly acknowledged and memorialised by the government of the Commonwealth of Australia? -- Jacket flap. |
| This book continues the historical investigation of Aboriginal sites in south-eastern Australia. Intertwined with the search for reminders of indigenous presence is the impact of European settlement. |
| Subjects |
Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- History |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- History |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Funeral customs and rites |
| Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Antiquities |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Antiquities |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- History |
| Massacres -- Australia -- History |
| Death - Mortuary customs |
| Sites - Mortuary sites and cemeteries |
| Settlement and contacts - 18th Century |
| Settlement and contacts - 19th Century |
| Settlement and contacts - 20th Century |
| Race relations |
| Cemeteries -- New South Wales |
| Australia -- Race relations -- History |
| New South Wales -- Race relations -- History |
| Call number |
2022.227 |
