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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cahir, Fred, 1963- author.

Series:

Aboriginal History Monograph ; volume 25.

Aboriginal History Monograph ; volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gold mines and mining--Australia--Victoria--1851-1891.

Gold mines and mining.

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

Aboriginal Australians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 152 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Canberra ANU Press 2012

Canberra, Australia : Australian National University, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

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.

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 the service sector

6. Co-habitation

7. Off the goldfields

8. Social and environmental change

9. Governments and missions

Conclusion

Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781921862960

1921862963

OCLC:

807164289

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459855