- Title
- Why should they pay money to the Queen?: Aboriginal miners and land claims
- Creator
- Cahir, David (Fred); Clark, Ian
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/35212
- Identifier
- vital:5200
- Identifier
- ISSN:1441-0370
- Abstract
- There is little evidence of Aboriginal involvement in the events of the Eureka Stockade, but there are numerous ways in which Aboriginal people are relevant to the Eureka story. The events took place on Aboriginal land (an obvious but rarely articulated truth) and Aboriginal people were present on the Ballarat diggings, as they were, indeed, on and around most Australian goldfields. The records are full of references to their fundamental and diverse contribution to life and work on the diggings, and to the complex and varied relationships they formed with the invaders. For Indigenous communities already reeling from the invasion of pastoralists, the arrival of 300,000 immigrant miners, swarming onto the alluvial districts of Victoria, represented a second wave of dispossession. But as we have noted elsewhere, there is abundant evidence that gold, at least in Victoria, brought many new economic opportunities for Aborigines, many of whom took advantage of these changed circumstances.' David Goodman argues persuasively for historians to consider an 'edgier interpretation' of the goldfields story. This could include a better appreciation of the social dislocation and cultural adaptations experienced by Indigenous people on the goldfields .; C1
- Relation
- Journal of Australian Colonial History Vol. 10, no. 1 (2008), p. 115-128
- Rights
- Copyright University of New England
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- 2103 Historical Studies; Aboriginal history; Mining; Demonstrations; Gold; Licences; New South Wales
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