Bells falls massacre and Bathurst's history of violence: Local tradition and Australian historiography∗

Roberts, David Andrew

doi:10.1080/10314619508595986

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Edmonds

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Aboriginal History

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Aboriginal History is a refereed journal that presents articles and information in Australian ethnohistory and contact and post-contact history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Historical studies based on anthropological, archaeological, linguistic and sociological research, including comparative studies of other ethnic groups such as Pacific Islanders in Australia, are welcomed. Subjects include recorded oral traditions and biographies, narratives in local languages with translations, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, archival and bibliographic articles, and book reviews. For more information please visit aboriginalhistory.org.au

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Aboriginal History

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“…Research by historians in the last few decades has helped to reveal the extent of violence associated with British colonisation in the early to mid 19th century, as well as Wiradjuri resistance in this region (Pearson, ; Roberts, ). The expansion of grazing and associated settlements in the region in the 1820s, including the establishment of the township of Mudgee, initiated a period of intense violence and retaliation on both sides, although the overall losses of Wiradjuri lives was much greater (Pearson, ; Roberts, ). In the late 19th and 20th centuries, the dispossession of Wiradjuri from their lands and waters continued.…”

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Shadow waters: Making Australian water cultures visible

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Trans Inst British Geog

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Connections between people and water have received considerable attention within geographic research. This paper draws on cultural and historical geographies, political ecology and the environmental humanities to extend understandings of the hydrosocial cycle by focusing on the cultural dimensions of society–water relations through the concept of shadow waters. Shadow waters centres attention on the cultures that privilege certain waters while rendering other waters invisible and marginalised. Inspired by Val Plumwood's notion of “shadow places,” shadow waters brings to light the way power intersects with cultural practices. We bring this concept of shadow waters into conversation with Indigenous water knowledges. Shadow waters can be conceptualised vertically, with surface water receiving more policy and research attention than ground water, and also horizontally, as some sub‐catchments, uses and values have been ignored or undervalued in macro‐catchment processes. Temporally, in considering the past, complex and contested histories of human–environment relations are often overlooked in favour of simple historical narratives that ultimately reinforce dominant management structures and trajectories. Shadow waters are thus historically created as particular power structures and narratives are reinforced and “normalised” over time. This paper examines shadow waters in southeastern Australia, elucidating the way two rivers are interwoven and co‐determined in cultures of water use in this context. We show how the rethinking of dominant water cultures, made possible by cross‐cultural engagement, generates new possibilities for reconnection, restoration and protection; a different water ethics based on care and responsibility that addresses power relations and injustices.

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“…The US research by Anne Yentsch that we drew attention to in the opening of our paper has highlighted the folklore of frontier violence and used it to map the construction of history at a community or 'folk' level. In examining later folk history accounts for what were 57 For a similar chain, see Roberts's (1995Roberts's ( , 2003 analysis of the story of the Bells Fall massacre near Sofala. deemed to be 'odd' architectural features, such as narrow staircases, high windows or small, downward-facing openings in upper storeys, Yentsch recorded a series of explanations that linked them to resisting attack from hostile Native Americans: narrow staircases prevented attacking parties from ascending in groups, allowing them to be killed one by one, small openings allowed people with guns to fire on those below and high windows were built to prevent arrows being shot into houses.…”

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“…60 Harris 2003: 89;Nettelbeck 2011Nettelbeck : 1118Nettelbeck and Foster 2010: 53.11-53.12. 61 For example Roberts 1995Roberts , 2003Wilson andO'Brien 2003. 62 Rose 2003: 125. Stories of violence attached to homesteads and domestic spaces are obviously highly ideological in that they legitimise particular constructions of historical processes and demonstrate the superiority of white settlers over Indigenous people.…”

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