Buhrich, Alice, Richards, Lewis, Bing, Brian, Richards, Jimmy, Prior, Sharon, Lacey, Jenny, Casey, Tania, and Mosquito, Megan (2024) Resistance and reprisals: The Ewamian Frontier Wars 1863–98. Aboriginal History, 47. pp. 111-131.

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Abstract

First Nations perspectives on the Frontier Wars are gaining increasing interest in historical, academic, political and social spheres. The arrival of squatters and miners brought momentous change to Ewamian people in Queensland’s Gulf savannah. Aboriginal resistance was followed by European reprisals, a pattern seen across Australia. A key aim of our paper is to address the dominant view of how Ewamian contact history is presented – Ewamian people did not passively accept the arrival of Europeans; the historic sources describe a resistance that continued over 35 years in three distinct phases. This paper has two aims. First, we challenge the colonial narrative that describes Ewamian as passive respondents to European colonialism. Second, we reinterpret the colonial narratives to identify three phases of resistance in the Ewamian estate in response to the changing nature of the colonial frontier in Queensland’s Gulf savannah.

Item ID:	84008
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1837-9389
Keywords:	Frontier Wars, Native Mounted Police, Ewamian, Gulf, savannah, truth telling
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Date Deposited:	07 Nov 2024 05:08
FoR Codes:	43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430302 Australian history @ 25% 45 INDIGENOUS STUDIES > 4501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history > 450103 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural history @ 50% 43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430313 History of empires, imperialism and colonialism @ 25%
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