On Taungurung Land : Sharing History and Culture. / Uncle Roy Patterson and Jennifer Jones

By:

Patterson, Roy [author]

Contributor(s):

Jones, Jennifer

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Aboriginal History MonographsPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 166 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1760464074
9781760464073

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: On Taungurung LandDDC classification:

994.5 23

LOC classification:

GN667.V6

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Note on terminology -- Preface -- Introduction: Meeting and working with Uncle Roy -- Part 1: Sharing Taungurung history -- 1. An overview of Taungurung history since invasion -- 2. Acheron Aboriginal Station: Land that 'ever should be theirs' -- 3. Mohican Aboriginal Station: 'Forced miles from the spot they cherished' -- 4. Breaking up Mohican Aboriginal Station: 'They got sick of being shunted around' -- 5. Children of Coranderrk, 1870-86 -- Part 2: Sharing Taungurung culture

6. 'Knowledge cost ya nothing and is not heavy to carry around': Taungurung bush tucker, bush medicine and bushcraft -- 7. 'Without culture, you've got nothing': Taungurung cultural heritage -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography

Summary: On Taungurung Land: Sharing History and Culture is the first monograph to examine how the Taungurung Nation of central Victoria negotiated with protectors and pastoralists to retain possession of their own country for as long as possible. Historic accounts, to date, have treated the histories of Acheron and Mohican Aboriginal stations as preliminary to the establishment of the more famous Coranderrk on Wurundjeri land. Instead of 'rushing down the hill' to Coranderrk, this book concentrates upon the two foundational Aboriginal stations on Taungurung Country. A collaboration between Elder Uncle Roy Patterson and Jennifer Jones, the book draws upon Taungurung oral knowledge and an unusually rich historical record. This fine-grained local history and cultural memoir shows that adaptation to white settlement and the preservation of culture were not mutually exclusive. Uncle Roy shares generational knowledge in this book in order to revitalise relationships to place and establish respect and mutual practices of care for Country.

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On Taungurung Land: Sharing History and Culture is the first monograph to examine how the Taungurung Nation of central Victoria negotiated with protectors and pastoralists to retain possession of their own country for as long as possible. Historic accounts, to date, have treated the histories of Acheron and Mohican Aboriginal stations as preliminary to the establishment of the more famous Coranderrk on Wurundjeri land. Instead of 'rushing down the hill' to Coranderrk, this book concentrates upon the two foundational Aboriginal stations on Taungurung Country. A collaboration between Elder Uncle Roy Patterson and Jennifer Jones, the book draws upon Taungurung oral knowledge and an unusually rich historical record. This fine-grained local history and cultural memoir shows that adaptation to white settlement and the preservation of culture were not mutually exclusive. Uncle Roy shares generational knowledge in this book in order to revitalise relationships to place and establish respect and mutual practices of care for Country.