Submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of PhD, School of Business.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Ballarat, 2006.

Bibliography: pages 343-360.

Contents:
Introduction -- Aboriginal participation in economic sectors -- Aboriginal people and the pastoral industry -- The historiography of Aboriginal people and mining -- Australian Aboriginal historiography -- Lamenting and rationalising -- National memory loss -- The revisionist period -- Micro-revisionist -- Historiography of Australian gold-mining -- Victorian goldfields -- A methodology for reconstructing the history of Aboriginal people and gold mining in Victoria from 1850 -1870 -- Historical sources of evidence: diaries, memoirs, correspondence, and mining records; artwork, photography and promotional material; newspapers -- Chapter one: Aboriginal people's presence and attitudes towards gold mining -- Chapter two: the attracting of Aboriginal people to gold mining -- Chapter three: discoverers and general fossicking for gold; on their own account; teaming up; mixed ethnicity unions; immigrant Aboriginal gold seekers in America & Victoria and gold mining in other states by Aboriginal people; other immigrant Indigenous miners in Victoria -- Chapter four: guiding on and to the goldfields; unwillingness to guide; getting to the goldfields with guides; reliance on guides; attitudes of guides and the guided; guiding on water; giving directions -- Chapter five: trackers and Native Police -- Chapter six: trade, commerce and the service sector; domestics; babysitting; farming; possum skin rugs and artifacts; Corroborees -- Chapter seven: Indigenisation; bushfoods; mia mias -- Chapter eight: co-habitation; appraisal changes; Aboriginal voices; frequency and stated rationale -- Chapter nine: off the goldfields -- Chapter 10: social and environmental changes; alcohol and substance abuse; interfering; meddling in marriage customs; environmental degradation -- Chapter eleven: the agents of control: governments and missions; evangelising the Aboriginals.

"The primary aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the history of Aboriginal people and gold mining in what is now known as Victoria, from 1850-1870." --Abstract

Electronic copy of version published by Australian National University Press also available at the library below:
Black gold [electronic resource] : Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria, 1850-1870 / Fred Cahir.