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Biting the Clouds
A Badtjala perspective on The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897
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- English
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eBook - PDF
Biting the Clouds
A Badtjala perspective on The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897
About this book
In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous scholarship, nationally renowned visual artist Fiona Foley addresses the inherent silences, errors and injustices from the perspective of her people, the Badtjala of K'gari (Fraser Island). She shines a critical light on the little-known colonial-era practice of paying Indigenous workers in opium and the 'solution' of then displacing them to K'gari. Biting the Clouds – a euphemism for being stoned on opium – combines historical, personal and cultural imagery to reclaim the Badtjala story from the colonisation narrative. Full-colour images of Foley's artwork add further impact to this important examination of Australian history.
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Australian & Oceanian HistoryIndex
HistoryTable of contents
- Half-title
- Author Biography
- Imprint Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- List of images
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Mul’lu Ku’rui
- Chapter 2: Out of the Sea Like Cloud
- Chapter 3: A Cloud Hovered Over the Land
- Chapter 4: The Opium Pipe Beclouds Their Lives
- Chapter 5: In Clouds of Conflicting Opinions
- Chapter 6: Billowing Clouds Above
- Silence is Complicity
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
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