TY - BOOK AU - Cahir,Fred TI - Black Gold: Aboriginal People on the Goldfields of Victoria 1850-1870 T2 - Aboriginal History Monographs SN - 9781921862960 AV - DU220 -- .C35 2012eb U1 - 994.5 PY - 2012/// CY - Canberra PB - ANU Press KW - Gold mines and mining--Australia--Victoria--1851-1891 KW - Electronic books N1 - Preliminary -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Aboriginal people and mining -- 2. Discoverers and fossickers -- 3. Guiding -- 4. Trackers and Native Police -- Illustrations -- 5. Trade, commerce and theservice sector -- 6. Co-habitation -- 7. Off the goldfields -- 8. Social and environmental change -- 9. Governments and missions -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography N2 - Fred Cahir tells the story about the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first history of Aboriginal-white interaction on the Victorian goldfields, 'Black Gold' offers new insights on one of the great epochs in Australian and world history--the gold story UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4595541 ER -