Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History

✍ Scribed by Bain Attwood

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This provocative work grapples with some of the most difficult issues in Aboriginal history, showing how they raise fundamental concerns about the nature of historical knowledge, truth, and authority. Discussions of such controversial questions as How many Aboriginal people were killed in frontier conflict and was it genocide? Was there ever a massacre at Risdon Cove in Tasmania? and Does Aboriginal oral history count as real history? attempt to shed some light an Australia's historical make-up.

✦ Table of Contents

Title page......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Illustrations (deleted due to copyright restrictions)......Page 6
Preface......Page 7
Part I Present......Page 17
1 Nation......Page 19
2 Democracy......Page 44
3 Politics......Page 68
Part II Past......Page 93
4 Genocide......Page 95
5 War......Page 114
6 Law......Page 132
7 Culture......Page 144
Part III Future......Page 163
8 History......Page 165
9 Memory......Page 178
10 Truth and Recognition......Page 192
Acknowledgments......Page 205
Notes......Page 206
Index......Page 267