Petitioning for land : the petitions of first peoples of early modern British colonies / Karen O'Brien.
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Bloomsbury Academic,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Petitioning: Challenging Colonial Power; First Australian negotiating for rights; Petitioning and landmark decisions; First Peoples resistance and violence; 'Mischief and depredations': The Story of Musquito; Interstate petitioning for social justice; Violence between British colonisers and First Australians from NSW 1792 to 1809; Petitioning for provisions; Petition from New South Wales to prevent a death sentence; Tasmania; Petitions opposed to colonial violence; Victoria; Petitioning from reserves.
- HardshipWestern Australia; South Australia; Petitions challenging life on reserves; Opposing enforced removal; Petitions to ascertain legislative reform; Queensland; Opposition to unjust working conditions; Opposition to removal; First Nations American petitions; Chapter 2: Petitioning for Land; Historiography of First Australian petitioning; Nineteenth-century petitioning; First Australian petitioning for residence on reserves; Land rights, petitioning and resistance; Petitioning for citizenship rights.
- Petitioning the Commonwealth: Recognition of prior land ownership, reconciliation, justice and constitutional changeThe Barunga petition; Eva Valley Statement; Recognition of prior land ownership, reconciliation and justice; Twenty-first century petitioning; The Bark petitions; The 1963 Yirrkala bark petition; Petitioning against the Northern Territory Emergency Response; The Tent Embassy petitions; The Boomerang petition; Insights into petitioning for formal land rights; Chapter 3: Treatises and Petitions; America's broken treaty system; Canadian treaties.
- Ceding and surrendering land to the CrownAgricultural colonisation and resistance; New Zealand treaties; Post-treaty petitions; Mà„ori petitioning; Treaties versus petitions; Chapter 4: Challenging Treatises; Cherokee petitions; Petitions against treaties and forced removal; Petitioning in the early years of colonisation; Petitions requesting land patents; Petitioning for land rights and protection under colonial legal systems; Petitions to the Crown; Early petitions for land rights; Petitions in the eighteenth and nineteenth century; Petitions on land encroachment, dispossession and rights.
- Petitions requesting a new overseerRequests to sell land; The Moqui petition; Land petitions: Scholarly literature; First Nations Petitions as documents of activism; Chapter 5: Contemporary Petitioning; Achieving land rights: Socio-legal perspectives; First Australian narrative and contemporary commemoration of petitions; The Uluru Statement from the heart; Agreement-making: Australia; Agreement-making: New Zealand; Agreement-making: Canada; Land reform: United States; Notes; Bibliography; Index.