The mind of a thief / Patti Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Patti, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Wellington (N.S.W.)--History.

Aboriginal Australians.

Wiradjuri (Australian people)--Australia--Wellington (N.S.W.)--History.

Wiradjuri (Australian people).

Wellington (N.S.W.)--History.

Wellington (N.S.W.).

Miller, Patti.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Other Title:

Mind of a thief : how do you belong to a stolen land?

Place of Publication:

St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exploring the history of the Wiradjuri people, the conflict of colonization, their mythologies, and their attachment to the land, author Patti Miller reveals both her own story and the position of Aboriginal people in today's society in this fascinating memoir. For 40,000 years, the Central New South Wales area of Wellington was Aboriginal Wiradjuri land. Following the arrival of white men, it became a penal settlement, a mission station, a gold-mining town, and a farming center with a history of white comfort and black marginalization.

Contents:

Cover; Author biography; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Map; 1 Blackfellas; 2 Wiradjuri Land; 3 Identity Terror; 4 Dreaming; 5 Heading Home - and Leaving; 6 Keeping Out of Trouble; 7 Memory and Place; 8 The Common and Nanima Reserve; 9 In Search of an Inland Sea; 10 Who Will Talk to Me?; 11 The Mind of a Thief; 12 The Missionaries' Diaries; 13 More Inclined to Read than Work; 14 Living at Nanima Reserve; 15 Thieving Ancestors; 16 Whose Native Title?; 17 A Wild Irishman; 18 Gold; 19 Native Title Fight; 20 Native Title Histories; 21 Patrick Reidy and the Wiradjuri; 22 The Town Historian

23 Elders Usurped; 24 The Niece of Jimmy Governor; 25 Trying to Talk to Rose; 26 Searching for the Bora; 27 Not Taking Nonsense; 28 A Wiradjuri Man; 29 Identity; 30 Who Belongs?; 31 Australia Day; 32 Sacred Sites; 33 What Happens in Wellington; 34 Country Rose; 35 Native Title; Epilogue; Acknowledgements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780702248184

0702248185

OCLC:

815973343