By Timothy Bottoms, November 2023 As the recipient of the 2019 S. E. Stephens Award by the Historical Society of Cairns, it astounds me that nobody at your Museum bothered to look at my MA(Qual) thesis (1990), which is on your bookshelves or look at my booklet The Bama, People of the Rainforest (1992), and [...]
By Timothy Bottoms, August 2023 When I finished my M.A.(Qual) (“Djarrugan, the Last of the Nesting”) back in 1990 there was no Native Title (The Act was passed on Christmas Eve, 1996). When I finished my M.A.(Qual) its seemed that nobody in Cairns was interested in the tribes of the Cairns Rainforest Region. That [...]
April 2023 Description One Timothy Bottoms has established himself as a notable historian within the field of Aboriginal studies in Australia through his meticulous examination of the complex and often harrowing history of Indigenous Australians. His scholarship is characterized by a commitment to unearthing the full extent of colonial impact on Aboriginal communities, particularly [...]
By Timothy Bottoms, January 2023 Abstract supplied by David Horton: "Map showing all the Aboriginal groups of Australia, with organisation into regions. The groups (not "tribes") are based on language, history, self-identification, culture, technology (the summation of all the research work in Australia up to that point), and are separated not by boundaries of [...]
