1st Edition
Aboriginal and European History Past and Present Truth-telling in the Northern Territory of Australia
By Kellie Pollard
Copyright 2025
226 Pages
126 Color & 5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
126 Color & 5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book analyses the 150-year history of continuous contact between Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people in the Darwin region of the Northern Territory of Australia after the European invasion in 1869 to the present day.
It explores the role Aboriginal fringe camps served, and still do, as places of interface between Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal people in the context of ongoing... Read more
1. Introduction; 2. Aboriginal Fringe Camps on the Australian Frontier; 3. Theoretical Model; 4. Accommodation; 5. Engagement; 6. Survivance; 7. Resistance; 8. Discussion
Biography
Kellie Pollard is a Wiradjuri Koori from New South Wales, southeast Australia. Kellie obtained her PhD in archaeology in 2019 as a candidate at Flinders University in South Australia. Now currently working as a research fellow at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory of Australia, Kellie specialises in Indigenous knowledges and philosophies and Indigenous methodologies in research in addition to her interests in historical and contemporary issues impacting the Indigenous peoples of Australia.
