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  title info:
    title: Trapped by history
    sub title: the indigenous-state relationship in Australia
  name:
    name part: Cronin, Darryl
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 259 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The Australian nation has reached an impasse in Indigenous policy and practice and fresh strategies and perspectives are required. Trapped by History will highlight a fundamental issue that the Australian nation must confront to develop a genuine relationship with Indigenous Australians. The existing relationship between Indigenous people and the Australian state was constructed on the myth of an empty land, terra nullius. Therefore, interactions with Indigenous people have been constrained by eighteenth-century assumptions and beliefs that Indigenous people did not have organized societies, had neither land ownership nor a recognizable form of sovereignty, and that they were 'savage' but could be 'civilized' through the erasure of their culture. These incorrect assumptions and beliefs are the foundation of the legal, constitutional and political treatment of Indigenous Australians over the course of the country's history. They remain ingrained in governmental institutions, Indigenous policy making, judicial decision making and contemporary public attitudes about Indigenous people. Trapped by History shines new light upon several historical and contemporary examples where Indigenous people have attempted to engage and dialogue with state and federal governments. These governments have responded by trying to suppress and discredit Indigenous rights, culture and identities and impose assimilationist policies. In doing so they have rejected or ignored Indigenous attempts at dialogue and partnership. Other settler countries such as New Zealand, Canada and the United States of America have all negotiated treaties with Indigenous people and have developed constitutional ways of engaging cross culturally. In Australia, the limited recognition that Indigenous people have achieved to date shows that the state is unable to resolve long standing issues with Indigenous people. Movement beyond the current colonial relationship with Indigenous Australians requires a genuine dialo…
  note: Darryl Cronin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: u-at---
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    geographic: Australia
    topic: Government relations
  subject:
    topic: Multiculturalism
    geographic: Australia
  subject:
    geographic: Australia
    topic: Race relations
  classification: DU124.G68 C76 2021
  classification: 323.199/159
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Indigenous nations and collaborative futures
  identifier: 9781786611451
  identifier: 1786611457
  identifier: 9781538152614
  identifier: 1538152614
  identifier: 9781786611468
  identifier: 2020054897
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201210
    record change date: 20210728155810.0
    record identifier: in00004443499