The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European invasion of Australia
Henry Reynolds
Language: English
Pages: 255
ISBN: B01K919W62
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. It has since become a classic of Australian history. Drawing from documentary and oral evidence, the book describes in meticulous and compelling detail the ways in which Aborigines responded to the arrival of Europeans. Henry Reynolds' argument that the Aborigines resisted fiercely was highly original when it was first published and is no less challenging today.
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Items were ceremonially exchanged at regular meetings, often hundreds of miles from their point of origin. European commodities gradually infiltrated traditional trade routes beginning within months of earliest contact. At the first settlement on the Tamar in 1804 local blacks gave a necklace to one of the soldiers who found to his surprise a white button threaded among the shells. Robert Dawson witnessed the trade of goods on the central coast of New South Wales in the 1820s. Tribes in the.
V.D. but it was equally clear that the colonial governments were determined to prevent the blacks from becoming economically independent. When the Western Australian Inspector of Aborigines visited a Broome purged by the local constables his first remarks were instructive. He noted that very few blacks could be seen about the town and residents told him ‘they could now get hold of a native willing to work’.55 Begging was another means by which blacks could avoid the need for regular wage labour.
Returned to the settled districts after his Queensland expedition and was required to consider what should happen to the guides who had accompanied him into the interior. He appreciated the importance of equality in traditional society–‘all there participate in, and have a share of, Nature’s gifts. These, scanty though they be, are open to all’. But among Europeans the ‘half clad native finds himself in a degraded position … a mere outcast’. Experience in Australia and elsewhere, he argued, had.
Letters WAHS Journal of the West Australian Historical Society WALCV&P West Australian Legislative Council Votes and Proceedings New Introduction 1 Henry Reynolds: Frontier: Aborigines, Settlers and Land, Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1987. 2 Henry Reynolds: With the White People, Penguin, Ringwood 1990. 3 Henry Reynolds: The Other Side of the Frontier, James Cook University of North Queensland 1981, p. 2. 4 Henry Reynolds: Why Weren’t We Told, Viking, Ringwood 1999; and Penguin,.