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'As much as they can gorge': colonial containment and Indigenous Tasmanian mobility at Oyster Cove Aboriginal station
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Harman, K, 'As much as they can gorge': colonial containment and Indigenous Tasmanian mobility at Oyster Cove Aboriginal station, Indigenous Mobilities: Across and Beyond the Antipodes, ANU Press, R Standfield (ed), Canberra, pp. 145-165. ISBN 9781760462147 (2018) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
In 1803, the British began to expropriate Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) principally as a repository for convicts. They did this without prior negotiation with the estimated 6,000 Aboriginal people residing there, whose ancestors’ custodianship of country dated back at least 40,000 years. As increasing numbers of free settlers arrived, the British settlements in the north and south of the island, and the pastoral frontier, expanded. Consequently, Aboriginal mobility became severely constrained. Conflict over space, mobility, bodies and resources led to sustained warfare between Aboriginal people and colonists throughout the latter half of the 1820s and the early 1830s. The Vandemonian War was ultimately resolved by the exile of Aboriginal survivors to islands in Bass Strait. This was achieved by diplomatic negotiations between Lieutenant Governor George Arthur and Kickerterpoller (known to colonists as Black Tom), and by Conciliator of Aborigines George Augustus Robinson’s ‘friendly mission’ in which Kickerterpoller was a participant.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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| Keywords: | history, Australia, Tasmania, Indigenous, Oyster Cove, colonialism |
| Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
| Research Group: | Historical studies |
| Research Field: | Australian history |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology |
| UTAS Author: | Harman, K (Associate Professor Kristyn Harman) |
| ID Code: | 123441 |
| Year Published: | 2018 |
| Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2018-01-09 |
| Last Modified: | 2022-10-12 |
| Downloads: | 83 View Download Statistics |
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