Goodbye Bussamarai : the Mandandanji land war, Southern Queensland, 1842-1852 / Patrick Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Patrick, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mandandanji (Australian people)--History--19th century.

Mandandanji (Australian people).

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Queensland--History--19th century.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure--Australia--Queensland.

Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--Queensland.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Race relations.

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.

History.

Queensland.

Queensland--Race relations.

Physical Description:

xxix, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

St. Lucia, QLD : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Ore. : Distributed in the USA by International Specialized Book Services, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction: Aboriginal rebellion against ruthless white settlers on the Australian frontiers xvii

1 The Mandandanji meet the whites: Too many dreams, too many cows and sheep, 1842-47 1

2 The Mandandanji escalate the land war, 1848 17

3 Commissioner Durbin brings white law to the Maranoa, 1849 31

4 Commandant Walker and his Native Police 44

5 Words were cheap: Earl Grey, 1849 66

6 The Mandandanji befriend Paddy McEnroe, 1849 78

7 The Mandandanji reject Commissioner Mitchell's authority, January-March 1850 86

8 The Dangars and the Yuleba Creek massacre, March 1850 92

9 Bussamarai's "Opera" incites the settlers, July 1850 to January 1851 104

10 "Determined hostilities" escalate demands for Native Police, February-August 1851 122

11 Law and order for the Aborigines, August-November 1851 134

12 Evidence of Native Police slaughter in late 1851 145

13 Dismantling law for the white settlers, January-April 1852 156

14 The Yamboucal massacre, May 1852 164

15 Bussamarai and the aftermath of the Yamboucal massacre, May-July 1852 180

16 More Aborigines die during Sergeant Dempster's encores, July-September 1852 188

17 Goodbye Bussamarai: 14 November 1852 200

Appendix 1 The changing boundaries of the Maranoa Pastoral District 216

Appendix 2 Yambugle or Yamboucal? and "Noorindoo" 220

Appendix 3 Petition from Lower Condamine settlers seeking police protection 221

Appendix 4 Census of white people, Maranoa Pastoral District, 7 November 1851 222.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0702232939

OCLC:

49764070