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- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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First Voices : Visiting Wybalenna
2015
single work
prose
— Appears in: Island , no. 142 2015; (p. 60-62) -
'He Had Been a Faithful Servant' : Henry Melville's Lost Manuscripts, Black Tom, and Aboriginal Negotiations in Van Diemen's Land
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Colonial History , no. 17 2015; (p. 45-64)'A central question in Henry Reynolds' 'Fate of a Free People' (1995) concerned whether an agreement or treaty was effected between the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land and the colonial authorities, resulting in the voluntary relocation of Aborigines from the Tasmanian mainland to Flinders Island in the 1830s. Reynolds built a circumstantial case that the 'Conciliator' George Augustus Robinson made certain promises 'on behalf of the government', including a commitment to allow Aborigines to return and visit their country. Reynolds wondered whether Governor George Arthur 'attempt[ed] to negotiate a settlement with the Tasmanians whilst the war was in progress'. Although focused on a petition later written by the Aborigines to Queen Victoria and on the role of females who accompanied Robinson, Reynolds noted in passing that the 'contemporary historian and newspaper editor, Henry Melville, reported a conversation between Arthur and Black Tom, a ''civilized'' Aborigine whom Arthur wished to employ as a negotiator'. Although Reynolds did not specifically draw the connection, he later quoted Robinson's journal description of a key negotiation that had taken place 'in the presence of Kickerterpoller'.' (Publication abstract)
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First Voices : Visiting Wybalenna
2015
single work
prose
— Appears in: Island , no. 142 2015; (p. 60-62) -
'He Had Been a Faithful Servant' : Henry Melville's Lost Manuscripts, Black Tom, and Aboriginal Negotiations in Van Diemen's Land
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Colonial History , no. 17 2015; (p. 45-64)'A central question in Henry Reynolds' 'Fate of a Free People' (1995) concerned whether an agreement or treaty was effected between the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land and the colonial authorities, resulting in the voluntary relocation of Aborigines from the Tasmanian mainland to Flinders Island in the 1830s. Reynolds built a circumstantial case that the 'Conciliator' George Augustus Robinson made certain promises 'on behalf of the government', including a commitment to allow Aborigines to return and visit their country. Reynolds wondered whether Governor George Arthur 'attempt[ed] to negotiate a settlement with the Tasmanians whilst the war was in progress'. Although focused on a petition later written by the Aborigines to Queen Victoria and on the role of females who accompanied Robinson, Reynolds noted in passing that the 'contemporary historian and newspaper editor, Henry Melville, reported a conversation between Arthur and Black Tom, a ''civilized'' Aborigine whom Arthur wished to employ as a negotiator'. Although Reynolds did not specifically draw the connection, he later quoted Robinson's journal description of a key negotiation that had taken place 'in the presence of Kickerterpoller'.' (Publication abstract)
Awards
- 1996 joint winner NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Banjo Award for Non-Fiction Awarded to the 1995 edition.