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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European men willingly and actually sought them out either to escape undesired marriage or tribal punishment or to gain access to the many attractive possessions of the Europeans. The disruption caused by the settlers provided the opportunity for young men to grab control of women from the elders and seek sanctuary among the white men in order to escape retribution. Such a situation was described by the West Australian Inspector of Aborigines on the north-west coast at the turn of the century:
camped with a small family group which had just returned from town with meat and bread. When asked why she and her kin did not go into the bush and live off the land she replied: ‘White fellow along a yarraman, too much break him spear, burn yams, cut him old man with whip, white man too much kill him Kangaroo.’37 But while some Aborigines were pushed in towards the towns others went willingly in the same direction. Curiosity enticed many as did the possibilities for gathering food and tobacco
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