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Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada by Amanda Nettelbeck, Russell Smandych, Louis A. Knafla and Robert Foster

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posted on 2023-05-23, 01:29 authored by Edmonds, P
In the early twentieth century, Canada was viewed in national settler narratives as a place of ‘gentle occupation’; likewise, Australia was deemed the ‘quiet continent’, a country that had been ‘settled but not invaded’. Both were cast triumphantly as homogenous ‘whiteman’s lands’. Canada and Australia share deep genealogies and long legacies of settler colonialism and, thanks largely to persistent indigenous political activism, a present and urgent requirement to face historical injustices. Over the last two decades, both Canada and Australia have moved towards various programs for national reconciliation and redress and, more recently, national apologies to indigenous peoples.

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Publication title

Aboriginal History

Volume

41

Pagination

193-195

ISSN

0314-8769

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Australian National University

Place of publication

Australia

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Understanding Australia’s past

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