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history, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement
What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognized by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that 'peaceful settlement' was a fiction? Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from legal and historical assumptions in a book that's about the present as much as the past. This book shows exactly why our national war memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date of our national day and why treaties are important. Most of all, it makes urgently clear that the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish but carries the weight of history and law and gives us a map for the future.
The Uluru Statement from the Heart -- Introduction : Hearing from the Statement from the Heart -- Part I. The first sovereign nations -- 1. Taking possession -- 2. This ancient sovereignty -- 3. Whose land? -- 4. Effective control? -- 5. Australia and the law of nations -- 6. 'Treaty yeh, treaty now' -- Part II. Searching for truth-telling -- 7. The truth about 26 January -- 8. Settlement, conquest or something else? -- 9. The cost of conquest -- 10. Queensland was different -- 11. Remembering the dead -- 12. The consequences of truth-telling -- 13. Inescapable iconoclasm -- Conclusion: the resurgent north.
Includes bibliographical references and index.