It's Still in my Heart, This is My Country: The Single Noongar Claim History by the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council, John Host with Chris Owen

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still very good.

Originally titled Applicants Historical Report and prepared as expert evidence in the native title case known as the Single Noongar Claim, this book analyses the historiography and related anthropology of South-West Western Australia. Coupled with Noongar oral history, it examines the survival of Noongar tradition, law and custom, proving that many of the most common misconceptions regarding the disappearance of Noongar culture have no basis in fact.

The report on which this book is based is a product of the research of the South West Aboriginal Land & Sea Council (SWALSC), the Native Title Representative Body for Noongar People, and Dr John Host. The single Noongar Claim hinged on proving that the Noongar were a single unified people, not a number of unrelated groups as claimed by the State of Western Australia.

Winner of the 2010 Human Rights Award for Literature (non-fiction) and the 2010 Margaret Medcalf Award.

Contents:

1. An introduction to perspectives on Noongar history

2. The extinction and survival theses examined

3. Prehistory, early exploration and pre-settlement 1616-1827

4. Inter-cultural connections: Collett Barker and Mokare 1827-1829

5. Challenging historical conventions: the early Swan River colony of 1829

6. Noongar-European relations 1829-1840

7. Traditional law and custom: continuity and change 1801-1840

8. Noongar adaptation and cultural maintenance 1841-1900

9. Noongar surviving into the next century 1880-1905

10. Noongars and the state in the twentieth century

11. The failure of assimilation 1950-2000