Noel Loos
Autor(a) de Edward Koiki Mabo
Obras por Noel Loos
Invasion and resistance: Aboriginal-European relations on the North Queensland frontier, 1861-1897 (1982) 13 exemplares
Succeeding against the odds : the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Teacher Education Program (1989) 3 exemplares
Invasion and Resistence: Aboriginal European Relations on the North Queensland Frontier 1861-1897 1 exemplar
Black voices, Volume 3, Number 1, July 1987 1 exemplar
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- #291,557
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The missionary work is framed within the reality of frontier violence, government control, segregation and neglect. He outlines how Aboriginal people on the missions responded to Christianity as part of their enforced cultural change. When missionary control diminished, Aboriginal people responded more overtly and autonomously: some seeing Christianity as irrelevant, and others adopting it in culturally pleasing ways.
ABM found itself embroiled in emerging broader social issues and changing government policies, requiring it to rethink its own policies. The most dramatic example was its support for Ernest Gribble’s exposure of the 1926 Forrest River massacres which the author suggests set off the current ‘history wars’.… (mais)