Paper on Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Relations in 19th Century Queensland

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Language groups: Butchulla, Gubbi Gubbi, Giya, Biri, and Darumbal.

Places: Maryborough, Bowen, Rockhampton.

This paper is concerned with Indigenous and Non-Indigenous relations in Queensland in the 19th Century. The document is untitled, and the author could not be determined. A historical overview ending in approximately 1875, the author writes that in the paper they will discuss the reactions of both European settlers and the Aboriginal fringe dwellers to a relationship characterised by economic symbiosis, social distance and massive structural inequality. Crime, loss of the opportunity to practice traditional customs, loss of land and lack of food all contributed to conflict between settlers and fringe dwellers from the 1860s.