More Information about Historian Dr Timothy Bottoms
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How Cannibalism was used by Colonial Invaders to denigrate Australian Indigenous People in order to justify their taking of the land
sadmin2024-02-08T07:53:33+00:00By Timothy Bottoms, November 2023 Three months after Cairns was established, the Queenslander in 1877 published an article by Old Chum about the Native Police and their 'dispersing' of Indigenous people. Quite readily this reporter relates how the Native Police answered the question : Do we shoot them? Of course we do. The popular idea [...]
The Falsification of your tribal map display at your Museum is a land-grab by unauthorised representatives.
sadmin2023-11-20T03:06:29+00:00By 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 [...]
Gungganydji Re-Assessment of their northern tribal boundaries
sadmin2024-07-19T01:23:27+00:00By 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 [...]
Dr Timothy Bottoms Description from AI ChatGPT4
sadmin2024-02-08T06:52:54+00:00April 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 [...]
Dr Timothy Bottoms’ Response to HORTON (AIATSIS 1996)
sadmin2023-01-23T23:42:09+00:00By 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 [...]
Why I am re-writing Djabugay Country under the new title of: Bama Bulmba
sadmin2023-01-23T23:28:40+00:00By Timothy Bottoms, October 2021 Writing Djabugay Country (Allen & Unwin, 1999) was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life and it has enabled me to connect to First Nation people in a way that I never thought possible. I am enormously grateful for the opportunities and values of the relationships that have [...]
Pandemics in Cairns & Far North Queensland
sadmin2020-08-11T03:40:45+00:00Since 1900 Cairns has had at least three serial epidemics. 1st) the Plague of 1900 2nd) 1919 - the returning of troops from the European theatre of war 3rd) was Malaria during World War II in the Pacific The coming to our shores of infectious disease required the fledgling Health authorities to organise. The [...]
Weekend Australian Mapping the Massacres
admin2020-03-22T05:28:50+00:00Click here to open PDF version There is no longer any doubt that Queenland's frontier wars were bloody, brutal and aimed at devastating Aboriginal society, writes Nicolas Rothwell. So where to now? Review in Weekend Australian, June 29-30, 2013 Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland frontier killing times by Timothy Bottoms. [...]
Courier Mail – History tainted by dirty deeds
admin2020-03-22T05:22:32+00:00Click here to open PDF version New light has been shed on our state's colonial days, writes Phil Brown.Review in Courier Mail, June 8, 2013 Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland frontier killing times by Timothy Bottoms.