| ISBN |
9781760641757 |
| Author |
Ashenden, Dean (author) |
| Title |
Telling Tennant's story : the strange career of the great Australian silence / Dean Ashenden. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Collingwood, Vic. : Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Books, [2022] |
| ©2022. |
| Description |
xiv, 338 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The tale of a town, and of a nation. Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a boy, Dean Ashenden finds Tennant Creek transformed, but its silence about the past still mostly intact. Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out to understand how the story of 'relations between two racial groups in a single field of life' has been told and not told, in this town and across the nation. In a riveting combination of memoir, reportage and political and intellectual history, Ashenden traces the strange career of the great Australian silence -- from its beginnings in the first encounters of black and white, through the work of the early anthropologists, the historians and the courts in landmark cases about land rights and the Stolen Generations, to still-continuing controversy. In a moving finale, Ashenden goes back to Tennant Creek once more to meet for the first time some of his Aboriginal contemporaries, and to ask how the truths of Australia's story can best be told. |
| Subjects |
Ashenden, Dean |
| National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (Australia). -- Bringing them home |
| National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (Australia) |
| Race relations |
| Social conditions |
| Aboriginal Australians |
| Warumungu (Australian people) -- Northern Territory -- Tennant Creek |
| Warumungu people (C18) (NT SE53-10) |
| Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Tennant Creek -- History |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Northern Territory |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Northern Territory -- Tennant Creek |
| Tennant Creek (N.T.) -- Social conditions |
| Tennant Creek (N.T.) -- History |
| Tennant Creek (Central NT SE53-14) |
| Australia -- Race relations |
| Call number |
2022.171 |
