Coranderrk

Download or read book Coranderrk written by Giordano Nanni and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from firsthand accounts, court testimony, and contemporary records, this history tells the story of Coranderrk, an Aboriginal community that operated successfully as a supplier of wheat and hops to Melbourne before an Aboriginal Protection Board-spurred Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881 deprived it of the bulk of its workforce. The first-person testimonies of both the Aboriginal witnesses and their non-Aboriginal allies and adversaries reveal the tensions inherent in the situation and provide a deeper and more accurate u.