Possession
Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History
Bain Attwood
- It
- contemplates
- why
- these
- agreements
- were
- forged,
- how
- the
- Aboriginal
- people
- understood
- their
- terms,
- why
- government
- repudiated
- them,
- and
- how
- settlers
- claimed
- to
- be
- the
- rightful
- owners
- of
- the
- land.
Bain
- Attwood
- also
- reveals
- the
- ways
- in
- which
- the
- settler
- society
- has
- endeavoured
- to
- make
- good
- its
- act
- of
- possession—by
- repeatedly
- creating
- histories
- that
- have
- recalled
- or
- repressed
- the
- memory
- of
- Batman,
- the
- treaties,
- and
- the
- Aborigines'
- destruction
- and
- dispossession—and
- charts
- how
- Aboriginal
- people
- have
- unsettled
- this
- matter
- of
- history
- through
- their remembering.
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