- Title
- ‘Aboriginal people and frontier violence: The letters of richard hanmer bunbury to his father, 1841-1847’
- Creator
- Clark, Ian
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/184491
- Identifier
- vital:16503
- Identifier
- https://www.latrobesociety.org.au/LaTrobeana/LaTrobeanaV16n1.pdf
- Identifier
- ISBN:1447-4026
- Abstract
- In 1841, twenty‑eight year old Richard Hanmer Bunbury, a veteran of service in the Royal Navy, which left him with only one hand, arrived in the Port Phillip District of New South Wales, gripped by an ‘epidemical rage for colonisation’. Through close relationships with officials such as Charles Joseph La Trobe, he lost no time in pursuing squatting interests in the Grampians (Gariwerd) district. This paper examines his relationships with the Djab Wurrung Aboriginal people1 of Mount William (Duwil), and publishes extracts from his correspondence with his father on Aboriginal matters. It reveals that although he made many perceptive observations of Aboriginal lifeways, he accepted the view, common on the frontier, that Europeans should be armed at all times, and that Aboriginal people could not be trusted around stations.
- Publisher
- Port Melbourne, Vic : C J La Trobe Society Inc.
- Relation
- La Trobeana: Journal of the C.J. La Trobe Society Inc Vol. 16, no. 1 (01/01 2017), p. 25-40
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- The C J La Trobe Society Inc
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
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