Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a MassacreThe past is a problem for us. We know certain events happened, sometimes exactly when and yet our sometimes longing for certainty cannot be satisfied . . . We tell stories about where we come from and so who we are. We change these stories sometimes minutely, sometimes radically depending upon our audiences and our task. Bluff Rockis organised around the key question- how do we know the past? Using historical material (letters, memoirs), a tourist brochure, and local histories, it focuses on the ways that the massacre(s) of Aborigines at Bluff Rock, in New England during the 1840s has been recorded and remembered. It is the author's ability to lay herself on the line that makes this a courageous and even controversial text. Schlunke, who grew up in New England area, takes this one story from early colonial Australia and looks at the many ways it is organised as a memory of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. |
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... Creek . Coming on them on the side of a deep precipice , the avenging party attacked them and wiped them out ... 63 The blacks who were camped on the river bank in the bend were attacked at daylight . They immediately stampeded and ...
... Creek . Coming on them on the side of a deep precipice , the avenging party attacked them and wiped them out ... 63 The blacks who were camped on the river bank in the bend were attacked at daylight . They immediately stampeded and ...
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... Creek — removed from the Bluff , and from Irby may place this story closer to the Myall Creek Massacre . The Demon Creek massacre may have been a group of station workers on a hunt , not a landowner on a sepulchral ' punitive expedition ...
... Creek — removed from the Bluff , and from Irby may place this story closer to the Myall Creek Massacre . The Demon Creek massacre may have been a group of station workers on a hunt , not a landowner on a sepulchral ' punitive expedition ...
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... creek of the next - door acreage , ' Wellington Vale ' . The expedition works its way through the station's hier ... Creek , past the outstations , past Seven Mile Creek and then beyond , into the bush proper . — It is too wet for ...
... creek of the next - door acreage , ' Wellington Vale ' . The expedition works its way through the station's hier ... Creek , past the outstations , past Seven Mile Creek and then beyond , into the bush proper . — It is too wet for ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
Copyright | |
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