Australia, History, Massacres, Aborigines, Wars, Government relations, First Nations Peoples, First Nations Australians 

"There is a body of opinion within the Aboriginal community which believes that books such as this should be written by Aboriginal historians. The problem with such an argument is that the events described here are, to my shame, as much a part of my history, as a white Australian, as they are a part of the history of any black Australian. To argue that the massacres of Aboriginal people are exclusively chapters in Aboriginal history is to ignore the fact that Europeans perpetrated these atrocities.... This book has no thesis. It tries, probably unsuccessfully, to grind no polemical axes and to cast no judgements. it seeks to achieve only two things: 9a0 to draw together, in a single volume, most of the information about the massacres of Aboriginal people which has been recorded in books and journals and (b) to create a broad-based level of awareness of the scale of the massacres of Aboriginal people so that this dimension of Australian history can become part of the Australian consciousness. the massacres of Aboriginal people, painful and shameful as they are, should be as much a part of Australian history as the First Fleet, the explorers, the gold rushes and the bushrangers." - Preface 

Content:
1. Two Hundred Years Ago -- 2. Massacres South of Sydney -- 3. Near Genocide in Van Diemen's Land -- 4. The Massacre of the Wiradjuri, 1824 -- 5. Massacres Along the Darling River, 1835-1865 -- 6. Major Nunn's Campaign, 1838 -- 7. The Myall Creek Massacre, 1838 -- 8. Massacres in teh Gippsland Region, 1840-1851 -- 9. The Massacre at Kilcoy -- 10. Massacres by the Native Police -- 11. The Massacre of the Yeeman People, 1857 -- 12. The Massacre of the Repisals at Cullin-la-Ringo, 1861 -- 13. The Massacre at Pigeon Creek, 1862 -- 14. The Forrest River Massacre, 1926 -- 15. The Coniston Massacre, 1928 -- 16. Massacres, Massacres, Massacres -- 17. The Stolen Generations -- 18. Racism - An Australian tradition -- 19. A Few Questions Answered.  

Includes bibliographical reference and index.
Item donated by Graham Price.
Categorized by publisher, then author, then date.