Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 The Battle of One Tree Hill: The Aboriginal Resistance That Stunned Queensland
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'The opening of south-east Queensland to ‘free settlement’ by the British colonial authorities in 1841 signalled the end of the convict era and the rapid establishment of the pastoral industry. An immediate consequence of the decision was the escalation of violence between the Indigenous traditional owners of the land and the new arrivals. The Battle of One Tree Hill by Brisbane historians Ray Kerkhove and Frank Uhr provides a detailed account of Queensland’s first theatre of frontier conflict. Fought across the Lockyer and Brisbane river valleys for much of the 1840s, a coalition of Indigenous groups enacted a determined campaign of resistance against the European colonisers who took their lands and violated their laws and traditions.' 

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    y separately published work icon Aboriginal History Journal no. 45 April Crystal McKinnon (editor), Ben Silverstein (editor), 2022 24620443 2022 periodical issue

    'This volume begins with Michael Aird, Joanna Sassoon and David Trigger’s meticulous research tracing the well-known but sometimes confused identity of Jackey Jackey of the Lower Logan River in south-east Queensland. Emma Cupitt describes the multivocality and intertextuality of Radio Redfern’s coverage of Aboriginal protests in Sydney as the 1988 Australian Bicentenary celebrations took place elsewhere in the city. Similarly approaching sources for their multiplicity, Matt Poll and Amanda Harris provide a reading of the ambassadorial work performed by assemblages of Yolngu bark paintings in diverse exhibition spaces after the Second World War.

    'Cara Cross historicises the production and use of mineral medicine—or lithotherapeutics—derived from Burning Mountain in Wonnarua Country, issuing a powerful call for the recognition of Indigenous innovation as cultural heritage. In a collaborative article, Fred Cahir, Ian Clark, Dan Tout, Benjamin Wilkie and Jidah Clark read colonial records against the grain to narrate a nineteenth-century history of Victorian Aboriginal relationships with fire, strengthening the case for the revitalisation of these fire management practices. And, based on extensive oral history work, Maria Panagopoulos presents Aboriginal narrations of the experience of moving—or being moved—from the Manatunga settlement on the outskirts of Robinvale into the town itself, on Tati Tati Country in the Mallee region of Victoria.

    'In addition to a range of book reviews, we are also pleased to include Greg Lehman’s review essay concerning Cassandra Pybus’s recent award-winning Truganini: Journey through the Apocalypse, which considers the implications of our relationships with history and how they help to think through practices of researching and writing Aboriginal history.' (Publication summary)

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