By John J. Cove
Here's a completely attractive heritage of 1 line of human technology study and its effects for the hapless, and sometimes helpless, topic of research: the indigenous peoples of Tasmania. learn questions coming up from skeletal continues to be have been posed and pursued at the assumption that those vanishing forebears bore no relation to, nor had any intrinsic which means for, aboriginal Tasmanians of this day. the writer unearths those premises unsuitable, exposing either the biases of study performed for political ends, and documenting their galvanizing impact on high-profile local concerns.
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9 Others argued that hanging was entirely appropriate and should be more widely used. This split was along class lines, with the "higher grade" tending more toward leniency. 10 In spite of his earlier stand, Lieutenant-Governor Arthur agreed with the "lower grade" of colonists, stating that hanging would "prevent the commission of similar atrocities by the Aborigines [and] induce ... "11 How the threat of hanging was supposed to generate a conciliatory attitude is unclear. But two things are notable about Arthur's statement.
This plan was obviously intended to benefit Robinson's career, but he put forward a different set of advantages—the move would eliminate the costs of maintaining the Establishment, and New South Wales was a better environment in that it would allow the Aborigines to more readily hunt and gather. He was also worried about the steady decline in the Establishment's population, which he discussed in his 1839 report to the lieutenantgovernor: I have much satisfaction in stating that the wants of the aborigines are amply and abundantly supplied ...
The link between civilization and conversion reflected both political and religious concerns and their fusion. In the 1830s, a parliamentary select committee was established in Britain to consider problems with indigenous peoples throughout the Empire. 25 Two of the select committee's tasks was to interview colonial administrators and missionaries from all over the Empire and to review existing documentation of colonial policies. For British North America, Sir George Murray noted: It appears to me that the course which has hitherto been taken in dealing with these people had its reference to the advantages which might be derived from their friendship in time of war, rather than any settled 33 WHAT THE BONES SAY 34 purpose of gradually reclaiming them from a state of barbarism, and of introducing amongst them the industrious and peaceful habits of civilized life ...