Noel Loos
Autore di Edward Koiki Mabo
Opere di Noel Loos
Invasion and resistance: Aboriginal-European relations on the North Queensland frontier, 1861-1897 (1982) 13 copie
Succeeding against the odds : the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Teacher Education Program (1989) 3 copie
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The missionary work is framed within the reality of frontier violence, government control, segregation and neglect. He outlines how Aboriginal people on the missions responded to Christianity as part of their enforced cultural change. When missionary control diminished, Aboriginal people responded more overtly and autonomously: some seeing Christianity as irrelevant, and others adopting it in culturally pleasing ways.
ABM found itself embroiled in emerging broader social issues and changing government policies, requiring it to rethink its own policies. The most dramatic example was its support for Ernest Gribble’s exposure of the 1926 Forrest River massacres which the author suggests set off the current ‘history wars’.… (altro)