Frontier Wars
Northern Territory
Hidden Histories: Black Stories from Victoria River Downs, Humbert River and Wave Hill Stations (1991)
Deborah Bird Rose
Contact history based on Aboriginal oral accounts; prehistory, traditional culture and territorial groupings; Captain Cook mythology and contradictions of early settlement; case studies of killings; role of police and police trackers; destruction of Karangpurru and Nyiwanawu culture; Humbert River Mudbura Aboriginal Reserve; Aboriginal perception of social justice; wages and unionism; Vesteys and labour issues; effects of Welfare policies; station violence, interpersonal relations and sexual conflict; working lives on stations; demographic estimates; the Wave Hill strike (1966); and more.
