Peter Read and Val Chapman lecture in History at the Australian National University.

• Figures and tablesContributorsAcknowledgmentsEditors' introduction1 Perspectives of the past: an introduction - Isabel McBryde2 Who owns the past? Aborigines as captives of the archives - Henrietta Fourmile3 Inventing Aborigines - Bob Reece4 Exchange in southeastern Australia: an ethnohistorical perspective - Isabel McBryde5 Adelaide as an Aboriginal landscape - Philip Clarke6 The struggle for recognition: part-Aborigines in Bass Strait in the nineteenth century - Lyndall Ryan7 Coming in? The Yanyuwa as a case study in the geography of contact history - Richard Baker8 Land in our own country: the Aboriginal land rights movement in southeastern Australia, 1860-1914 - Heather Goodall9 'A rape of the soul so profound': some reflections on the dispersal policy in New South Wales - Peter Read10 Growing up in Queensland - Bowman Johnson talks to Andrew Markus11 Resettlement and caring for the country: the Anmatyerre experience - Elspeth Young12 The Aboriginal embassy: an account of the protests of 1972 - Scott RobinsonEndnotesIndex

Peter Read and Val Chapman lecture in History at the Australian National University.

• Figures and tablesContributorsAcknowledgmentsEditors' introduction1 Perspectives of the past: an introduction - Isabel McBryde2 Who owns the past? Aborigines as captives of the archives - Henrietta Fourmile3 Inventing Aborigines - Bob Reece4 Exchange in southeastern Australia: an ethnohistorical perspective - Isabel McBryde5 Adelaide as an Aboriginal landscape - Philip Clarke6 The struggle for recognition: part-Aborigines in Bass Strait in the nineteenth century - Lyndall Ryan7 Coming in? The Yanyuwa as a case study in the geography of contact history - Richard Baker8 Land in our own country: the Aboriginal land rights movement in southeastern Australia, 1860-1914 - Heather Goodall9 'A rape of the soul so profound': some reflections on the dispersal policy in New South Wales - Peter Read10 Growing up in Queensland - Bowman Johnson talks to Andrew Markus11 Resettlement and caring for the country: the Anmatyerre experience - Elspeth Young12 The Aboriginal embassy: an account of the protests of 1972 - Scott RobinsonEndnotesIndex

Peter Read and Val Chapman lecture in History at the Australian National University.

• Figures and tablesContributorsAcknowledgmentsEditors' introduction1 Perspectives of the past: an introduction - Isabel McBryde2 Who owns the past? Aborigines as captives of the archives - Henrietta Fourmile3 Inventing Aborigines - Bob Reece4 Exchange in southeastern Australia: an ethnohistorical perspective - Isabel McBryde5 Adelaide as an Aboriginal landscape - Philip Clarke6 The struggle for recognition: part-Aborigines in Bass Strait in the nineteenth century - Lyndall Ryan7 Coming in? The Yanyuwa as a case study in the geography of contact history - Richard Baker8 Land in our own country: the Aboriginal land rights movement in southeastern Australia, 1860-1914 - Heather Goodall9 'A rape of the soul so profound': some reflections on the dispersal policy in New South Wales - Peter Read10 Growing up in Queensland - Bowman Johnson talks to Andrew Markus11 Resettlement and caring for the country: the Anmatyerre experience - Elspeth Young12 The Aboriginal embassy: an account of the protests of 1972 - Scott RobinsonEndnotesIndex