Indigenous History: Australia

Books

Aboriginal Placenames: naming and renaming the Australian lansdscape. (eds.) Harold Koch and Luise Hercus. Canberra: ANU E Press and Aboriginal History Inc., 2009.
[Aboriginal History Monograph No. 19].

Aborigines in Colonial Society, 1788-1850: from 'noble savage' to 'rural pest'. (ed.) Jean Woolmington. Armidale, N.S.W: University of New England, 1988 [2nd ed].

BANNER, Stuart. Possessing the Pacific: land, settlers, and indigenous people from Australia to Alaska. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, c2007.

Blue Mountains Dreaming: the Aboriginal Heritage. (ed.) Eugene Stockton. Winmalee, NSW: Three Sisters Publication, 1993.

BRAYSHAW, Helen. Aborigines of the Hunter Valley: a study of colonial records. Scone, NSW: Scone & Upper Hunter Historical Society, 1986.

BREEN, Shayne and SUMMERS, Dyan. Aboriginal Connections With Launceston Places. Launceston, Tas.: Launceston City Council, 2006.

BROOK, J. and KOHEN, J.L. The Parramatta Native Institution and the Black Town: a history. Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1991.

CLEARY, Tania. Poignant Regalia: 19th century Aboriginal breastplates & images: a catalogue of Aboriginal breastplates held in public, regional and private collections in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. Glebe, N.S.W.: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, c1993.

CLENDINNEN, Inga. Dancing With Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2003.

CONNOR, John. The Australian Frontier Wars 1788-1838. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2002. [See: Chapter 3 'The Hawkesbury-Nepean River, 1795-1816" pp.35-52.]

A Documentary History of the Illawarra & South Coast Aborigines 1770-1850. Compiled by Michael Organ. Wollongong: Aboriginal Education Unit, Wollongong University, 1990.

DYER, C. The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1722-1839. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2005.

ELDER, Bruce. Blood on the Wattle: massacres and maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788. Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.: New Holland, 2003 [3rd ed].

Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia. (ed.) David Horton. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994 [2 vols].
[See entries for NSW: 'Awabakal', 'Darkinung', 'Dharug', 'Eora', 'Gundungurra', 'Geawegal', 'Kuring-gai', 'Tharawal', 'Ngunawal', 'Wiradjuri', 'Wonnarua', 'Yuin' peoples; and for TASMANIA: 'Lairmairrener', 'Nuenonne', 'Paredarerme', 'Peerapper', 'Pyemmairrener', 'Tommeginne', 'Toogee', and 'Tyerrernotepanner' peoples].

First Australians: an illustrated history. (eds.) Rachel Perkins and Marcia Langton. Carlton, Vic.: Miegunyah Press, 2008.

FOLEY, Dennis. Repossession of Our Spirit: traditional owners of northern Sydney. Canberra: Aboriginal History, 2000. [Aboriginal History Monograph No. 7]

FORD, Lisa. Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.

GOODALL, Heather and CADZOW, Allison. Rivers and Resistance: Aboriginal people on Sydney's George's River. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2009.

JACKSON-NAKANO, Ann. The Kamberri: a history from the records of aboriginal families in the Canberra-Queanbeyan district and surrounds 1820-1927 and historical overview 1928-2001. Canberra: Aboriginal History, 2001. [Aboriginal History monograph; No. 8, Series 2: Weereewaa history series; v. 1]

JONES, Philip. Ochre and Rust: artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers. Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2007.

KARSKENS, Grace. The Colony: a history of early Sydney. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2009.

KEATING, Christopher. On The Frontier: a social history of Liverpool. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1995.

KOHEN, James. The Darug and Their Neighbours: the traditional Aboriginal owners of the Sydney region. Blacktown: Darug Link, 1993.

KOHEN, J. L. Daruganora: Darug Country – the place and the people. Blacktown: Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation, 2006.

McBRYDE, Isabel. Guests of the Governor, Aboriginal residents of the first Government House. Sydney: Friends of the First Government House Site, 1989.

MEMMOTT, Paul. Gunyah Goondie + Wurley: the Aboriginal architecture of Australia. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 2007.

MURRAY, Robert and WHITE, Kate. Dharug & Dungaree: the history of Penrith and St. Marys to 1860. North Melbourne: Hargreen Publishing, 1988.

PLOMLEY, N. J. B. The Aboriginal/Settler Clash in Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1831. Launceston, Tas.: Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in association with the Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania, 1992.

PLOMLEY, N. J. B. The Tasmanian Aborigines. Launceston, Tas.: Plomley Foundation, 1993.

RYAN, Lyndall. The Aboriginal Tasmanians. St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1996 [2nd ed].

SMITH, Keith Vincent. King Bungaree: a Sydney Aborigine meets the great South Pacific explorers, 1799 -1830. Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1992.

SMITH, Keith Vincent. Eora: mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770-1850. Sydney, N.S.W. : State Library of New South Wales, 2006.

SMITH, Keith Vincent. Wallumedegal: an Aboriginal history of Ryde. North Ryde, N.S.W.: Community Services Unit, City of Ryde, 2005

Strangers On The Shore: early coastal contacts in Australia. (eds.) Peter Veth, Peter Sutton and Margo Neale. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2008.

TINDALE, Norman B. Aboriginal Tribes of Australia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

TURBET, Peter. The Aborigines of the Sydney District Before 1788. East Roseville, NSW: Kangaroo Press, 2001 (rev. ed.).

VAN TOORN, Penny. Writing Never Arrives Naked: early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006.

WILLEY, Keith. When the Sky Fell Down: the destruction of the tribes of the Sydney region, 1788-1850s. Sydney: Collins, 1979.

Whitewash: on Keith Windschuttle's fabrication of Aboriginal history. (ed.) Robert Manne. Melbourne : Black Inc., c2003.

Journal Articles

BREMER, Anette. "Domestic Disclosures: letters and the representation of cross-cultural relations in early colonial New South Wales." Frontiers: a Journal of Women Studies. 2007 Vol. 28 Issue 1/2 pp.77-95.

BREMER, Anette. "Doubled Document: representing race in Elizabeth Macarthur's letter of March 1791." New Literatures Review. No. 40 2003 Winter pp.57-72.

DYER, Colin. "The Indigenous Australians in Sydney and its Environs as Seen by French Explorers, 1802-1831". Journal of the Australian Historical Society. Vol. 88 (2) pp.147-161.

FORD, Lisa and SALTER, Brent. "From Pluralism to Territorial Sovereignty: The 1816 Trial of Mow-watty in the Superior Court of New South Wales." Indigenous Law Journal Vol. 7 (2008-2009) pp.67-86.

LISTON, Carol. "The Dharawal and Gandangara in Colonial Campbelltown, New South Wales, 1788-1830." Aboriginal History Vol. 12 Part 1: 1988 pp.49-92.

O'BRIEN, Anne. "'Kitchen Fragments and Garden Stuff': Poor Law discourse and indigeneous people in early colonial New South Wales." Australian Historical Studies. Vol. 39, Issue 2, June 2008 pp.150-166.

POWELL, Michael and HESLINE, Rex. "Making Tribes? Constructing Aboriginal tribal entities in Sydney and coastal NSW from the early colonial period to the ther present". Journal of the Australian Historical Society. Vol. 96 (2) December 2010 pp.115-148.

REECE, R. H. W. "Feasts and Blankets: the history of some early attempts to establish relations with the Aborigines of New South Wales, 1814-1846". Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania. Vol. 2 (3) pp.190-206.

TURNBULL, Paul. "'Outlawed Subjects': the Procurement and Scientific Uses of Australian Aboriginal Heads, ca.1803-1835." Eighteenth Century Life. Vol. 22 Part 1, 1998 pp.156-171.

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