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William Cooper
An Aboriginal Life Story
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William Cooper
Focusing on William Cooper’s most important campaigns, this carefully researched study sheds important new light on the long struggle that Indigenous people have fought to have the truth about Australia’s black history heard and win representation in Australia’s political order.
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William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story details William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights, as well as his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country. His efforts have been widely commemorated and celebrated.
By carefully reconstructing the historical losses his Yorta Yorta people suffered and endured, the book reveals how the first seventy years of Cooper's life inspired the remarkable political work he undertook in the 1930s.
Focusing on Cooper's most important campaigns, such as his famous petition to the British king George for an Aboriginal representative in the Australian parliament, his call for a day of mourning after 150 years of colonisation, the walk-off of the Yorta Yorta people from Cumeroogunga reserve in 1939, and his opposition to the establishment of an Aboriginal regiment in the Second World War, this carefully researched study sheds important new light on the long struggle that Indigenous people have fought to have the truth about Australia's black history heard and to win representation in Australia's political order.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780522879803
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 April 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: Melbourne University Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Weight: 272g
Pages: 277
About the Author
Bain Attwood is Professor of History at Monash University and has held fellowships at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. In 2010 his book Possession- Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History won the Ernest Scott Prize for the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand or colonial history. Previous works include Rights for Aborigines; Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History and Empire and The Making of Native Title- Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People. He is the co-editor of Telling Stories- Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand and Protection and Empire- A Global History.
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