HIST-281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: History Wars, Joseph Chamberlain, Trade Bloc
28 Oct 2020
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As settlers invade, aborigines were 300k to 1 million before contact. They suffered from disease, frontier violence and expropriation of land. Settlers were in postal enclaves before the mass settlements. They were relatively in peace with the aborigines at the time. European colonists fenced off and cultivated more land and denied natives ancestral and hunting grounds. They were given the choices of extermination or removal from reservations and compounds established by missionaries. They were said to have been treated worse than animals. The "history wars" in australia refer to a popular and academic debate in australia. It concerned the degree to which british settlers engaged in genocide and the extermination of aboriginals. Native tasmanians were hit very hard by violent warfare. The last remaining tasmanian aboriginals were resettled on the barren flinders island. This was off the north coast of tasmania in the 1840s. In the 1870s, the last living tasmanian died.
