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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

2024-02-08T07:53:33+00:00

By 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 [...]

How Cannibalism was used by Colonial Invaders to denigrate Australian Indigenous People in order to justify their taking of the land2024-02-08T07:53:33+00:00

The Falsification of your tribal map display at your Museum is a land-grab by unauthorised representatives.

2023-11-20T03:06:29+00:00

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 [...]

The Falsification of your tribal map display at your Museum is a land-grab by unauthorised representatives.2023-11-20T03:06:29+00:00

Gungganydji Re-Assessment of their northern tribal boundaries

2024-07-19T01:23:27+00:00

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 [...]

Gungganydji Re-Assessment of their northern tribal boundaries2024-07-19T01:23:27+00:00

Dr Timothy Bottoms Description from AI ChatGPT4

2024-02-08T06:52:54+00:00

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 [...]

Dr Timothy Bottoms Description from AI ChatGPT42024-02-08T06:52:54+00:00

Dr Timothy Bottoms’ Response to HORTON (AIATSIS 1996)

2023-01-23T23:42:09+00:00

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 [...]

Dr Timothy Bottoms’ Response to HORTON (AIATSIS 1996)2023-01-23T23:42:09+00:00

Why I am re-writing Djabugay Country under the new title of: Bama Bulmba

2023-01-23T23:28:40+00:00

By 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 [...]

Why I am re-writing Djabugay Country under the new title of: Bama Bulmba2023-01-23T23:28:40+00:00

Pandemics in Cairns & Far North Queensland

2020-08-11T03:40:45+00:00

Since 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 [...]

Pandemics in Cairns & Far North Queensland2020-08-11T03:40:45+00:00

Weekend Australian Mapping the Massacres

2020-03-22T05:28:50+00:00

Click 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. [...]

Weekend Australian Mapping the Massacres2020-03-22T05:28:50+00:00

My Journey to Myall Creek

2019-04-24T00:26:33+00:00

On my way to Canberra from Cairns, I visited the Myall Creek site in 2009. Back in 2014 I was contacted by the Friends of Myall Creek to be the Guest Speaker on 10th June, to remember the massacre there in 1838 - a 176 years ago (in 2019, it's [...]

My Journey to Myall Creek2019-04-24T00:26:33+00:00
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