Description
Title: Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney
Author: IRISH PAUL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/05/2017
Imprint: NEW SOUTH WALES UNI PRESS
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active
Contrary to what you may think, local Aboriginal people did not lose their culture and die out within decades of Governor Phillip s arrival in Sydney in 1788.
Aboriginal people are prominent in accounts of early colonial Sydney, yet we seem to skip a century as they disappear from the historical record, re-emerging early in the twentieth century. What happened to Sydney s indigenous people between the devastating impact of white settlement and increased government intervention a century later?
Hidden in Plain View shows that Aboriginal people did not disappear. They may have been ignored in colonial narratives but maintained a strong bond with the coast and its resources and tried to live on their own terms.
This original and important book tells this powerful story through individuals, and brings a poorly understood period of Sydney s shared history back into view. Its readers will never look at Sydney in the same way.
ISBN: 9781742235110
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm