Cry for the Dead, The

AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal –

Based on her grandfather’s detailed diary, Judith Wright’s account of the push of pastoralists north through Queensland towards the Gulf of Carpentaria takes the reader through the mechanism for subordinating the land and its people to the economics of profit from meat and wool without any regard to the cost. It is a harrowing story of greed and destruction of environment and of indigenous society and culture.

Establishment of Wright family pastoral holdings in central Queensland; relationships with Wadja and Jangga.

• 303 p. : 6 maps ; 23 cm.

  Bibliography: p. [281]-284.

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• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Occupations – Pastoral industry workers
  • Law enforcement – Police – Native police
  • Economic sectors – Agriculture and horticulture – Pastoral industry
  • Race relations – Violent – Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. – To 1900
  • Settlement and contacts – Colonisation – 1851-
  • Occupations – Pastoral industry workers – Drovers / Stockmen
  • Settlement and contacts – Settlers
  • History – Genealogy and family history
  • Yangga people (E52) (Qld SF55-07)
  • Wadja / Wadjigu people (E39) (Qld SG55-04)
  • Fitzroy River (E Qld SF56-13)
  • East Queensland (E Qld SF55, SF56)
  • Dawson River (SW Qld SG55, SG56)
  • South West Queensland (SW Qld SG54, SG55, SH54, SH55)
  • Cullin-La-Ringo (E Qld SF55-15)

  Subject:

  • Wright family
  • Eastern Australia. Settlement. Squatters, ca 1801- ca 1926
  • Aboriginal Australians. Effects of colonisation of Australia by Great Britain, to 1910
  • Squatters — Australia
  • Aboriginal Australians — History
  • Australia — History
  • Australia — History — 1788-1900
  • Australia — History — 1901-1922
  • Australia — Colonization — History