| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
844636
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
O'Brien, Karen
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Petitioning for land : : the petitions of first peoples of early modern British colonies /\ Karen O'Brien.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
London ;New York, NY :: Bloomsbury Academic,, 2019.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
1 online resource
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
1350010693
|
|
|
:
|
: 1350010707
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781350010697
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781350010703
|
|
|
:
|
1350010685
|
|
|
:
|
9781350010680
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references and index.
|
| 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.
|
|
|
:
|
Ceding and surrendering land to the CrownAgricultural colonisation and resistance; New Zealand treaties; Post-treaty petitions; Māori 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.
|
|
|
:
|
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.
|
|
|
:
|
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.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Indians of North America-- Land tenure-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Indigenous peoples-- Land tenure-- Australia-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Indigenous peoples-- Land tenure-- New Zealand-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Petitions-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Petitions-- Australia-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Petitions-- New Zealand-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Petitions-- North America-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
British colonies.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
General world history.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
HISTORY-- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
|
| Subject
|
:
|
HISTORY-- North America.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Indians of North America-- Land tenure.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Indigenous peoples-- Land tenure.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Legal history.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Petitions.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Great Britain, Colonies, History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Australia.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
New Zealand.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
North America.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
305.8
|
|
|
:
|
970.1
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
DU124.L35O27 2019
|
|
|
:
|
E77.O27P48 2018
|