Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War - Southern Queensland, 1842-1852

Collins, Patrick Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War - Southern Queensland, 1842-1852. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2002.

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Author Collins, Patrick
Title Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War - Southern Queensland, 1842-1852
Place of Publication Brisbane
Publisher University of Queensland Press
Publication year 2002
Subjects 430101 History - Australian
379902 Aboriginal Studies
420305 Aboriginal Cultural Studies
Abstract/Summary This is the introduction and bibliography to Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War. Southern Queensland, 1842-1852 by Patrick Collins. Bussamarai was a powerful resistance leader whose influence spread across five Aboriginal nations. Like the legendary Pemulwuy, Yagan or Jandamara, he fought for the survival of his people, the Mandandanji of southern Queensland. Their homeland bordered northern New South Wales and its infamous sites of Aboriginal massacre and frontier warfare: Myal Creek, Slaughterhouse Creek and Waterloo Creek. This history serves as a sequel to those artrocities, so unforgettably chronicled in Roger Milliss's "Waterloo Creek". Closely researched and finely grained, this is the first analysis of this fierce leader and the Mandandanji whose valiant fight for their homeland led to their decimation. Collins brings the violent struggle for land to graphic life, piecing together clues of a part suppressed or forgotten. Unearthed is the full scale of a tragic chronology of bloody "bushwhacks", racial wars and the dreaded Native Police. Led by white officers, and armed with guns and swords, they were party to the destruction of countless indigenous societies. More than an account, this is a story enriched by the author's speculations on racial violence and the psychological effects of a massacre in 19th century Australia.
Keyword southern Queensland
Mandandanji Land War
Aboriginal history
Australian history
Aboriginal massacre
frontier warfare
Myal Creek
Slaughterhouse Creek
Waterloo Creek
Roger Milliss
bushwhacks
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