Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia : Histories and Historiography.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (368 pages)
- Aboriginal History Monographs .
- Aboriginal History Monographs .
Intro -- Figures, tables and maps -- Acronyms -- Prefatory note -- How shall we write the history of self‑determination in Australia? -- Part One: Self‑determination as a project of colonial authority -- 1. Self-determination in action: How John Hunter and Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land anticipated official policy in the late 1960s and early 1970s -- 2. An emerging Protestant doctrine of self‑determination in the Northern Territory -- 3. The Aboriginal pastoral enterprise in self‑determination policy -- 4. Unmet potential: The Commonwealth Indigenous managed capital funds and self-determination -- 5. After reserves and missions: Discrete Indigenous communities in the self‑determination era -- 6. 'Taxpayers' money'? ATSIC and the Indigenous Sector -- Part Two: Self‑determination as an Indigenous project -- 7. Adult literacy, land rights and self‑determination -- 8. Taking control: Aboriginal organisations and self‑determination in Redfern in the 1970s -- 9. Beyond land: Indigenous health and self-determination in an age of urbanisation -- 10. Self-determination's land rights: Destined to disappoint? -- 11. 'Essentially sea-going people': How Torres Strait Islanders shaped Australia's border -- Part Three: Self‑determination as principle of international law and concept in political theory -- 12. Self-determination under international law and some possibilities for Australia's Indigenous peoples -- 13. Self-determination with respect to language rights -- 14. Self-determination through administrative representation: Insights from theory, practice and history -- 15. Who is the self in Indigenous self‑determination?.
Histories of the colonisation of Australia have recognised distinct periods or eras in the colonial relationship: 'protection' and 'assimilation'.