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Book The Aboriginal People of the Burragorang Valley

Download or read book The Aboriginal People of the Burragorang Valley written by Jim Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Smith has documented in The Aboriginal People of the Burragorang Valley, a unique community in a unique setting the like of which I know no other. For the people of the Blue Mountains it provides a rich background to understanding the Aboriginal members of our community. Eugene Stockton

Book Gungarlook

Download or read book Gungarlook written by Ivy Brookman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aborigines of the Burragorang Valley 1830 1960

Download or read book Aborigines of the Burragorang Valley 1830 1960 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Barralliers Blue Mountain exploration in 1802

Download or read book Barralliers Blue Mountain exploration in 1802 written by Richard Hind Cambage and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration of the Burragorang Valley area, with help of Aboriginal guides; encounters with wild natives.

Book Lighting the Way

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dianne Johnson
  • Publisher : Federation Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9781862874275
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Lighting the Way written by Dianne Johnson and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighting the Way: Reconciliation Stories captures the spirit of reconciliation. A collection of stories about individual and community acts of reconciliation, it is honest and engaging, and shows what reconciliation means and why so many Australians wish to achieve it. Each story is personal and immediate. Some trace families and relationships over generations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. This book reveals Australia for all that it is, has been and can be.

Book Aboriginal Heritage of the Blue Mountains

Download or read book Aboriginal Heritage of the Blue Mountains written by Eugene Stockton and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before British colonists found a wayacross the Blue Mountains, thousands ofgenerations of Aboriginal people had livedhere before them. They left traces of their lifeand culture in campsites, rock art, artefacts,axe grinding grooves, scarred trees andstone arrangements. Their heritage includeslanguage, stories, memories and ceremonies.It is for the present generation to wonderat this heritage which binds the past tothe present.

Book Sacred Waters

Download or read book Sacred Waters written by Dianne Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SACRED WATERS is the account of the dispossession of Indigenous people in the Blue Mountains within living memory, and is one of the winners of the 2008 NSW Premier's History Awards. The Gully, situated in the middle of Katoomba, was used as a summer holiday camp by the Gundungurra and Darug peoples before white settlement. After white settlement many moved to the Gully permanently and in the 1950s when Gundungurra land was flooded for the creation of Warragamba Dam, this process became irreversible. The Gully residents lived in relative harmony with their white neighbours until 1957 when some local businessmen decided to build a car racing track there and the Gully people homes were simply bulldozed - they had no say in the matter and many had no compensation. By recounting the area's Aboriginal history, Sacred Waters also tells the story of Sydney's waterways, used for centuries by Aboriginal people as pathways across the Blue Mountains. The book, written by Dianne Johnson in collaboration with the residents of Katoomba's Gully area and their descendents, was supported by the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Sydney Catchment Authority.

Book Gandanguurra

    Book Details:
  • Author : James (Jim) Barrett
  • Publisher : Neville Bush Holdings
  • Release : 2016-02-17
  • ISBN : 9780994513502
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Gandanguurra written by James (Jim) Barrett and published by Neville Bush Holdings. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A linguistic reconstruction of the Gandanguurra language (usually spelt as Gundungurra or Gandangurra) of the Australian Aboriginal tribe covering the area of the Blue Mountains south to Goulburn, east to Mittagong and west to Oberon. This book draws together word lists, interprets words from phonetic evidence of the language, and posits grammatical word building.

Book Rivers and Resilience

    Book Details:
  • Author : Heather Goodall
  • Publisher : UNSW Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1921410744
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Rivers and Resilience written by Heather Goodall and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We started swimming in the Georges River at Liverpool. We were river girls! It was our little stamping ground. - Judy Chester Rivers and Resilience traces the history of Aboriginal people along Sydney's Georges River from the early periods of white settlement to the present. Telling the stories of the river people, it offers insights into Aboriginal history in an urban setting. For centuries Aboriginal people lived along the Georges River. With colonisation, the river's geography forced settlers to leapfrog over its rugged and swampy bends in search of arable land. Aboriginal people retained a hold over some of the land and maintained communities - despite changes caused by the city's growth. Two leading historians investigate Aboriginal communities in this densely settled, but often overlooked, suburban area.

Book Riverlands of the Anthropocene

Download or read book Riverlands of the Anthropocene written by Margaret Somerville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene. The book asks how humans can learn through sensory embodied encounters with local waterways that shape the architecture of cities and make global connections with environments everywhere. The book considers human becomings with urban waterways to address some of the major conceptual challenges of the Anthropocene, through stories of trauma and healing, environmental activism, and encounters with the living beings that inhabit waterways. Its unique contribution is to bring together Australian Aboriginal knowledges with contemporary western, new materialist, posthuman and Deleuzean philosophies, foregrounding how visual, creative and artistic forms can assist us in thinking beyond the constraints of western thought to enable other modes of being and knowing the world for an unpredictable future. Riverlands of the Anthropocene will be of particular interest to those studying the Anthropocene through the lenses of environmental humanities, environmental education, philosophy, ecofeminism and cultural studies.

Book Belonging to the Earth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julie Brett
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2022-02-25
  • ISBN : 1789049709
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Belonging to the Earth written by Julie Brett and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belonging to the Earth is a collection of personal insights, stories of journeys and rituals, community events and conversations between activists, First Nations community leaders, and those practicing nature spirituality. Each part of the book offers thoughtful and personal perspectives about connecting with the land, paying respect to ancestral traditions, Indigenous cultures and First Nations people, and finding ways to practice nature spirituality with integrity. Each part of the journey of the book explores how we can all come together to work for a better future and develop a greater understanding of how we belong to the Earth.

Book Cities in a Sunburnt Country

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Cook
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2022-05-19
  • ISBN : 1108917119
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Cities in a Sunburnt Country written by Margaret Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield? Residents have come to expect reliable, safe, and cheap water, but natural limits and the costs of maintaining and expanding water networks are at odds with forms and cultures of urban water use. Cities in a Sunburnt Country is the first comparative study of the provision, use, and social impact of water and water infrastructure in Australia's five largest cities. Drawing on environmental, urban, and economic history, this co-authored book challenges widely held assumptions, both in Australia and around the world, about water management, consumption, and sustainability. From the 'living water' of Aboriginal cultures to the rise of networked water infrastructure, the book invites us to take a long view of how water has shaped our cities, and how urban water systems and cultures might weather a warming world.

Book Australian national bibliography

Download or read book Australian national bibliography written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1961 with total page 1818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australian National Bibliography  1992

Download or read book Australian National Bibliography 1992 written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Artificial Horizon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Edward Thomas
  • Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780522851519
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The Artificial Horizon written by Martin Edward Thomas and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Thomas takes the reader on a journey through a compelling study of culture, landscape and mythology. For both Aboriginal people and their colonisers, the rugged landscape of the Blue Mountains has stood as an intriguing riddle and a stimulus to the imagination. The author evokes this dramatic and bewildering landscape and leads his readers through the cultural history of the locality in order to probe the 'dreamwork of imperialism'.

Book Invasion to Embassy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Heather Goodall
  • Publisher : Sydney University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 1920898581
  • Pages : 533 pages

Download or read book Invasion to Embassy written by Heather Goodall and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Aboriginal responses to invasion and dispossession in New South Wales; discusses early attempts by colonial authorities to recognise Aboriginal land rights and title 1838 to 1852; creation of Aboriginal reserves in pastoral areas and reasons for first reserves; dual occupation of land; impact of more intensified land use; setting up of the Aborigines Protection Board and its dispersal policies - characterised as the second wave of dispossession; formation of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association in New South Wales; describes life under the "Dog Act" in the 1930s; describes living conditions in Moree 1927 to 1933; Cumeragunja and the formation of the Australian Aboriginal League in Victoria; life under the 'Dog Act' in Menindee, Brewarrina and Burnt Bridge; land and politics 1937 to 1938; Cumeragunja strike 1939; politics in the 1950s and 1960s; reassertion of land rights 1957 to 1964; background and reasons for setting up Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972.