Goodbye Bussamarai
the Mandandanji Land War South Queensland 1842-52
Patrick Collins
ISBN: | 9780702232930 |
Publisher: | University of Queensland Press |
Published: | 1 March, 2002 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Penguin AU |
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Goodbye Bussamarai
the Mandandanji Land War South Queensland 1842-52
Patrick Collins
Bussamarai was a personal resistance leader whose influence spread across five aboriginal nations. Like the legendary Pemulway, Yagan or Jandamara, he fought for the survival of his people, the Mandandanji of southern Queensland. Their homeland bordered northern New South Wales and its infamous sites of Aboriginal massacre and frontier warfare: Myall Creek, Slaughterhouse Creek and Waterloo Creek. This history serves as a sequel to those atrocities, so unforgettably chronicles in Roger Milliss's Waterloo Creek. Closely researched and finely grained, this is the first analysis of this fierce leader and the Mandandanji whose valiant fight for their homeland led to their decimation. More than an account, this is a story enriched by the interpolations of an author whose background in social psychology brings him to speculate on racial violence and the psychological effects of a massacre in 19th century Australia.
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