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020 $a9781921862953
024 7 $a10.26530/OAPEN_459855$2doi
041 0 $aeng
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100 1 $aCahir, Fred$4aut
245 10 $aBlack Gold: Aboriginal People on the Goldfields of Victoria, 1850-1870
260 $aCanberra$bANU Press$c2012
520 $aFred Cahir tells the story about the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first history of Aboriginal?white interaction on the Victorian goldfields, Black Gold offers new insights on one of the great epochs in Australian and world history?the gold story.

In vivid detail it describes how Aboriginal people often figured significantly in the search for gold and documents the devastating social impact of gold mining on Victorian Aboriginal communities. It reveals the complexity of their involvement from passive presence, to active discovery, to shunning the goldfields.

This detailed examination of Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria provides striking evidence which demonstrates that Aboriginal people participated in gold mining and interacted with non-Aboriginal people in a range of hitherto neglected ways.

Running through this book are themes of Aboriginal empowerment, identity, integration, resistance, social disruption and communication.
546 $aEnglish.
650 7 $aAustralasian & Pacific history$2bicssc
650 7 $aIndigenous peoples$2bicssc
653 $agold-mining
653 $aaustralian history
653 $aindigenous studies
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