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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Hidden Histories : Black Stories from Victoria River Downs and Wave Hill Stations
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'Death and denial constituted two major moments in the colonisation of the north of Australia. Denial persists today and engenders a complicity with all that has gone before. Whether denial takes the form of strident refusal or the more subtle form of blank indifference, the result is the same: the past is concealed, and the living become accomplices in the continuation of injustice. Hidden histories unleashes that past and its concealment.

In Hidden Histories you will find stories of massacres and murders, of working life on cattle stations, of friendships and foes, of bureaucratic machinations and the individual struggles of Aboriginal Australians. There are elements to these stories which project them across time and space, culture and experience. They peak of exploitation and cruelty, but they also contain a message of hope. It is an Aboriginal message- that we should manage our differences to our mutual benefit rather than to our destruction.' Sourced from publishers note (Sighted: 03/04/2009)

Contents

* Contents derived from the Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,:Aboriginal Studies Press , 1991 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Telling Histories, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. xviii-xxiv)
Early History, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 1-13)
Captain Cook, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 15-25)
Savages, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 27-36)
Shot Like a Dog, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 38-47)
Captives, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 49-54)
Alligator Tommy, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 55-64)
Circling Around, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 65-74)
Karangpurra Deathscape, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 75-78)
Gradually the Natives Quietened, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 79-92)
The Quality of Mercy, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 93-99)
Blackfellow Wars, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 101-112)
Nyiwanawu and Bilinara Deathscapes, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 113-118)
Brigalow Bill and Old Gordon, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 119-129)
Humbert River, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 131-136)
Prisoners and Unions, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 137-148)
Making Stations Rich, Hobbles Danayarri , single work prose (p. 149-157)
Terror, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 159-168)
Total Power, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 169-177)
An Economy of Sex, Deborah Bird Rose , selected work short story (p. 179-188)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Scar Tissue : Searching for Retribution Camp Billy Griffiths , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 415 2019; (p. 14-16)

'At first I can’t make out the inscription, even though I’m searching for it. Smooth new bark has grown into the cuts, bulging around the incision, preserving the words on the trunk. I run my hand across the surface, tracing the grooves, feeling the letters: R-E-T-R-I-B-U-T-I-O-N. And below, in slightly larger hand, ‘CAMP’.'(Introduction)

[Review Essay] Hidden Histories : Black Stories from Victoria River Downs, Humbert River and Wave Hill Stations; Dingo Makes Us Human : Life and Land in an Aboriginal Australian Culture Ken Mulvaney , 1992 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 1992; (p. 100-103)
From the Other Side of the Frontier David Headon , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 October 1991; (p. 5)

— Review of Hidden Histories : Black Stories from Victoria River Downs and Wave Hill Stations Deborah Bird Rose , 1991 selected work short story
From the Other Side of the Frontier David Headon , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 October 1991; (p. 5)

— Review of Hidden Histories : Black Stories from Victoria River Downs and Wave Hill Stations Deborah Bird Rose , 1991 selected work short story
[Review Essay] Hidden Histories : Black Stories from Victoria River Downs, Humbert River and Wave Hill Stations; Dingo Makes Us Human : Life and Land in an Aboriginal Australian Culture Ken Mulvaney , 1992 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 1992; (p. 100-103)
Scar Tissue : Searching for Retribution Camp Billy Griffiths , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 415 2019; (p. 14-16)

'At first I can’t make out the inscription, even though I’m searching for it. Smooth new bark has grown into the cuts, bulging around the incision, preserving the words on the trunk. I run my hand across the surface, tracing the grooves, feeling the letters: R-E-T-R-I-B-U-T-I-O-N. And below, in slightly larger hand, ‘CAMP’.'(Introduction)

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