'A peep at the Blacks' : A history of tourism at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, 1863-1924
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2015
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- Description: This book is concerned with the history of tourism at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station at Healesville, northeast of Melbourne, which functioned as a government reserve from 1863 until its closure in 1924. At Coranderrk, Aboriginal mission interests and tourism intersected and the station became a ‘showplace’ of Aboriginal culture and the government policy of assimilation. The Aboriginal residents responded to tourist interest by staging cultural performances that involved boomerang throwing and traditional ways of lighting fires and by manufacturing and selling traditional artifacts. Whenever government policy impacted adversely on the Aboriginal community, the residents of Coranderrk took advantage of the opportunities offered to them by tourism to advance their political and cultural interests. This was particularly evident in the 1910s and 1920s when government policy moved to close the station.
'I suppose this will end in our having to live like the blacks for a few months': reinterpreting the history of Burke and Wills'
- Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Clark, Ian
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills: Forgotten Narratives p. 301-303
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- Description: The Aboriginal story of the Burke and Wills Expedition and relief expeditions is at once multi-faceted and complex with many interconnected threads that have rarely been teased out in historical analyses. In many respects the Aboriginal story has been overshadowed by the tragedy and misfortune of the expedition in which seven men, including Burke and Wills, died. Yet the exclusion of Aboriginal perspectives is a structural matter, as epitomised in Moorehead’s analysis. The description of central Australia as a ‘ghastly blank’ (Moorehead 1963, p. 1) where the land was ‘absolutely untouched and unknown, and except for the blacks, the most retarded people on earth, there was no sign of any previous civilization whatever’, is representative of the exclusion of Aboriginal people from the narrative and if Aboriginal people are discussed, it is often in racist tones. As Allen (2011, p. 245) rightly pointed out:
'John and Jackey': An exploration of Aboriginal and Chinese people's associations on the Victorian goldfields
- Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Clark, Ian
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Australasian Mining History Vol. 13, no. No. (2015), p. 23-41
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- Description: While much has been written about Chinese miners, much less has been said about Aboriginal miners and even less about Aboriginal-Chinese relations on the gold fields and elsewhere. Historians and other writers, such as Stephenson, Dunstan, Gittins, Cronin, Ramsay and Edwards and Shen, have largely ignored Aboriginal associations with Chinese people in colonial Victoria. Eric Rolls's study is representative of this absence - when discussing Australia's colonial racial policies towards the Chinese on the Victorian gold fields, Rolls is reluctant to draw many parallels between the Chinese, one group of people largely hidden from the historical gaze, and Aborigines, another group almost expunged from memory. A similar pattern can be seen in the historiography of encounters in other nations between Indigenous and Chinese people, such as in New Zealand and British Columbia where the paucity of the records initially led Yu to note: 'Here was a world only glimpsed'.
'Of one blood': An appreciation of the life of Yarley Yarmin
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Pay Dirt Chapter 3 p.
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'That's My Country, Belonging to Me' : Aboriginal land tenure and dispossession in nineteenth century Western Victoria
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2003
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- Description: A1
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'The remarkable disappearance of messrs Gellibrand and Hesse'. What really happened in 1837?: A Re-examination of the historical evidence
- Authors: Donovan, Paul Michael , Clark, Ian , Cahir, David (Fred)
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Victorian historical journal (Melbourne, Vic. : 1987) Vol. 87, no. 2 (2016), p. 278-297
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- Description: In 1837, Joseph Tice Gellibrand and George Brooks Legrew Hesse disappeared near Birregurra. Popular history says that their bodies were never found and their deaths are a mystery. However, letters, records, contemporary newspaper articles and early histories outline the disappearance and discovery of the bodies. Isaac Hebb's history in the 1880s refuted primary sources, claiming that the whereabouts of the bodies were never found. This article re-examines early historical documents, many of which Hebb may not have had access to or opted not to include in his work. We critique Hebb's analysis and reinvestigate the story.
'We are all of one blood' - A history of the Djabwurrung Aboriginal people of Western Victoria, 1836-1901, Volume One : A history of the Djabwurrung, 1936-1901
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Vol. One
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- Description: This is the first volume in the three-volume history of the Djabwurrung Aboriginal people of Western Victoria, 1836-1901.
'We are all of one blood' - A history of the Djabwurrung Aboriginal people of western Victoria, 1836-1901, Volume Three : Anthology of Sources
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2016
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- Description: This is volume three of the History of the Djabwurrung Aboriginal people of Western Victoria, 1836-1901. It publishes the primary sources used in preparing this history. These include extracts from unpublished and published reminiscences; and diaries; and newspaper articles. It is hoped that this collation will serve as a primary source for the Djabwurrung community and other people interested in their history.
'We are all of one blood' - A history of the Djabwurrung Aboriginal people of Western Victoria, 1836-1901, Volume Two : Biographies, Genealogies, Pastoral station profiles, Collectors of Djabwurrung heritage, and Place names
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Vol. Two
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- Description: This is the second volume in the three-volume history of the Djabwurrung Aboriginal people of Western Victoria, 1836-1901. It presents profiles of select Djabwurrung Aboriginal people; biographies of the Sievwrights and the Wattons, who were associated with the Western District of the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectoriate; profiles of pastoral stations, licenses and superintendents; biographies of nineteenth century collectors of Djabwurrung cultural heritage; and concludes with a selection of Djabwurrung Place names.
'You have all this place, no good have children……' Derrimut : Traitor, saviour, or a man of his people?
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Vol. 91, no. pt.2 (2005), p. 107-132
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A Bend in the Yarra : A History of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek Aboriginal School 1841-1851
- Authors: Clark, Ian , Heydon, Toby
- Date: 2004
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A forgotten brouhaha: lessons in authenticity and authority
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Language Land and Song: Studies in honour of Luise Hercus Chapter 21 p. 304-317
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- Description: 1. Introduction In July 1943, noted Victorian author and travel writer Eileen Finlay (1878- 1950) returned to the tourist resort town of Healesville to enjoy ‘a respite from her literary labours’ (Healesville Guardian 24/7/1943). Staying at Golf House, her respite did not prevent her from appearing at the Healesville Library to promote her publications and meet her fans. Eileen Finlay was born Mary Ellen Moroney in Maffra, Gippsland, in 1878, and lived for a time in Colac where her father was appointed shire engineer in 1882 (Barraclough 1995: 56). In 1889, two years after the death of her father, her family moved to Lilydale where her connection with Healesville commenced. In 1899 she married architect, Alexander Kennedy Smith Finlay, and settled in Melbourne. On 29th December 1921 her husband was one of three passengers who drowned when a launch capsized en route to Lake Tyers Aboriginal station. Many of the survivors, including Eileen Finlay and her son, owed their survival to two Aboriginal women from the Aboriginal settlement who rescued them in a rowing boat – once on shore, men and women from the settlement assisted them by lighting a fire to dry their clothes . "From introduction"
A letter home to Scotland from Warrenheip in April 1857 : Insights into life in a railway survey camp
- Authors: Clark, Ian , Kicinski, Beth
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Victorian Historical Journal Vol. 86, no. 2 (2015), p. 363-380
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- Description: This paper is concerned to publish a letter sent from a railway survey camp at Warrenheip in April 1857 by an assistant surveyor named John C Macdonald to his sister in Scotland. The letter was sent on an issue of the News Letter of Australasia. The letter provides insights into the living conditions of survey camps; the perils of travelling in the bush; nascent goldfields tourism, with its practice of taking visitors down into mines to see how they operated; and the difficulty of maintaining communication between families at home and their kin who had migrated to Australia. The letter was found in a suitcase of miscellaneous papers in an auction in Scotland in October 2012 and is published here for the first time.
A tour of the mines - An anthology of travel accounts and reminiscences of Ballarat, 1851-1901
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Vol. Volume One : 1851-1861
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- Description: This anthology is a trove of impressions of Ballarat and its environs. The visitors come from all walks of life - journalists, politicians, royalty, actors, artists, and clergy including an Aboriginal evangelist. Many perspectives are represented including Indian, Canadian, American, Swiss, Hungarian, French, English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, German, and Viennese. This is Volume One covering the decade from 1851 to 1861. Ballarat in its first decade as a centre of gold mining is very much the story of the invasion of the gold diggers, and the conflict at the Eureka Stockade in 1854. Aboriginal people are present in this anthology as the Wathawurrung Aboriginal people of the Ballarat district and the policing by the Native Police Corps are discussed by numerous writers.
A tour of the mines- an anthology of travel accounts and reminiscences of Ballarat, 1851-1901. Vol Two: 1861-1901
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2014
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- Description: Since the discovery of gold in 1851 many people visited Ballarat to see the Golden City. Fortunately, many published observations of what they saw and experienced. Over 120 accounts from visitors to Ballarat from 1851 until 1901, are presented in this anthology. This anthology is a trove of material that is rich and rewarding for many uses and users - for those looking to undersatnding the evolution of a city from an Indigenous landscape and the contribution of gold mining to this development, he resource is indeed a rich quarry. "From cover".
Aboriginal biocultural knowledge in South-eastern Australia : Perspectives of early colonists
- Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Clark, Ian , Clarke, Philip
- Date: 2018
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- Description: Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator-prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been largely unknown and under-appreciated by non-Aboriginal colonists, especially in the south-east of Australia where Aboriginal culture was severely fractured. Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia is the first book to examine historical records from early colonists who interacted with south-eastern Australian Aboriginal communities and documented their understanding of the environment, natural resources such as water and plant and animal foods, medicine and other aspects of their material world. This book provides a compelling case for the importance of understanding Indigenous knowledge, to inform discussions around climate change, biodiversity, resource management, health and education. It will be a valuable reference for natural resource management agencies, academics in Indigenous studies and anyone interested in Aboriginal culture and knowledge.
Aboriginal fire-management practices in colonial Victoria
- Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Clark, Ian , Tout, Dan , Wilkie, Benjamin , Clark, Jidah
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Aboriginal History Journal Vol. 45, no. (2021), p. 109-130
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- Description: Through a close reading of particular episodes and a focus on the minutiae of action and context, this article adds to the literature on the customary use of fire by Aboriginal people in south-eastern Australia by highlighting the historically significant role Aboriginal people played in toiling alongside colonists and fighting fires during the colonial period. By scrutinising the written colonial records it is possible to reveal some of the measures that Aboriginal people used to help the colonists avoid cataclysmic fire. Lacking many direct Indigenous sources due to the devastation caused by rapid colonisation, we do this for the most part through a detailed examination of sheep and cattle graziers' journals, newspapers and government records. The article commences with an overview of colonists' observations of and attitudes regarding Aboriginal practices in relation to fire with specific reference to the region now referred to as Victoria and New South Wales. It concludes with an examination of the few recorded instances in which Aboriginal people tutored colonists in fighting fires, educating them how to use fire as a management tool, and the significant value they placed in Aboriginal knowledge relating to fire. © 2022 Astra Salvensis. All rights reserved.
Aboriginal interactions and associations with the hospitality industry in colonial Victoria, 1835-70
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Colonialism, Tourism and Place Chapter 4 p. 44-57
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- Description: This paper is concerned with the emergence of hospitality in Colonial Victoria, and is part of ongoing research into understanding Victoria’s ‘tourism era of discovery’, which focuses on the embryonic or emergent phase in which the tourism and hospitality industry is coming into being. Travellers’ accounts and other contemporary sources are used to provide insights into Victoria’s nascent hospitality - through them we should be able to see the various places that were emerging as settlements in the colonial space. It offers a social history of Aboriginal interactions and associations with bush inns including camping sites; cultural performances; alcohol consumption; restrictions on serving alcohol to Aboriginal people; and sites of violence. In the pre-gold period, accommodation responded to the needs of pastoral travellers and reflected physical discontinuities such as river crossings, which were logical places to stop and rest. These discontinuities also became opportunities for interactions with Aboriginal peoples
Aboriginal Language Areas in Northeast Victoria: 'Mogullumbidj' Reconsidered
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Victorian Historical Journal Vol. 81, no. 2 (2010), p.
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- Description: This article focuses on Aboriginal language area reconstruction in north-east Victoria, particularly Mogullumbidj, one of the most problematical areas in Victoria. It shows that a careful analysis of primary sources is still capable of generating fresh insights and removing some of the confusion that surrounds language area reconstruction. The re-analysis of primary references shows that none of the earlier delineations, such as Tindale, Barwick, Clark and Wesson, has integrity. The resolution of the significance of the label 'Mogullumbidj" was found by examining the reaction of southwest Victorian aboriginal peoples to the Tasmanian Aboriginal man who accompanied Robinson on his 1841 journey through their lands. This revealed that the word was descriptive and not a linguistic lab
Aboriginal languages in North-east Victoria- The status of 'Waveru' reconsidered
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues Vol. 14, no. 4 (2011), p.
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