Uluru: An Aboriginal History of Ayers Rock"Robert Layton describes how religion, subsistence patterns, and land ownership all form part of a living culture, despite the fact that the Yakuntjajara and Pitjantjatjara have lived like refugees in their own country for the past hundred years. He traces the history of their dispossession and their relations with bureaucracies, cattle stations, missions and police"--p. [2] of cover. |
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Living off the land | 17 |
Land ownership | 39 |
Exploration | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Aboriginal Affairs Aboriginal land Alice Springs Amata Anari ancestral Angas Downs Apara Aputjilpi Areyonga artefacts Atila Ayers Rock base camps Basedow Brokensha bush camels central Australia Central Land Council ceremony claim area claimants CONFLICT AND CHANGE Creek Curtin Springs described dingo scalps Docker River doggers drought Duguid Erldunda Ernabella evidence expedition foraging Government Haasts Bluff Harney hill homestead inma Kai-Umen Kakadu kangaroo Katiti Kikingkura kilometres Kulpitjata Kuniya Lake Amadeus Land Rights Act Lasseter Lasseter's living Lungkata Luritja Mackay Mala McKinnon Mount Conner Mountford mulga Mulga Park Musgrave Ranges Mutitjulu Nangee Nipper Winmati Northern Territory Numberlin Olgas ownership Paddy Uluru party Patji Petermann Ranges Petermann Reserve Piltati Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara and Yankuntjatjara Pompy Douglas Purrarra Ranger recorded rock hole sandhill settlement soak spears station Strehlow Tjalkalyiri tjukurrpa Toby Nangina tourists traditional owners travelled Uluru and Katatjuta vacant Crown Land visited Walkabout Wanampi White Yulara