^[1] Breaker Morant, Gallipoli, The Man From Snowy River (both the original and its sequel) and Phar Lap all come under this category.

^[2] Shane Howard, ‘Solid Rock (Sacred Ground)’, on the album ‘Spirit of Place’ by Goanna, W.E.A. 600127, (Sydney, 1982).

^[3] Personal interview with Jack Davis, Canberra, November, 1981.

^[4] Kevin Gilbert, ‘Black Policies’, in Jack Davis and Bob Hodge, eds, Aboriginal Writing Today, (Canberra, 1985), p. 41.

^[5] Gerald L. Bostock, ‘Black Children’, in Black Man Coming, (Sydney, 1981), p. 14.

^[6] Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), ‘The Past’, in My People, (Milton, 1981), p. 92.

^[7] Noonuccal, ‘Stone Age’, in ibid., p. 21.

^[8] Gilbert, Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert, (Ringwood, 1978), p. 3.

^[9] Maureen Watson, ‘Walk Tall’, in Black Reflections, (Wattle Park, 1982), p. 15.

^[10] Biskup makes this point in his article, ‘Aboriginal History’, in Mandle and Osborne, eds, New History Today – Studying Australian Society, (Sydney, 1982), p. 30.

^[11] Henry Reynolds, Aborigines and Settlers: The Australian Experience 1788-1939, (North Melbourne, 1972); The Other Side of the Frontier; Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia, (Ringwood, 1982).

^[12] W.E.H. Stanner, After the Dreaming, (Sydney, 1969), pp. 55, 57.

^[13] ibid., p. 25.

^[14] Phillip Pepper, You Are What You Make Yourself to Be, (Melbourne, 1981); Robert Bropho, Fringedweller, (Sydney, 1980).

^[15] Kevin Gilbert, Living Black: Blacks Talk To Kevin Gilbert, (Melbourne, 1978), p. 2.

^[16] Jack Davis, The Dreamers, in Kullark/The Dreamers, (Sydney, 1982), p. 134.

^[17] Quoted in Adam Shoemaker, ‘An Interview With Jack Davis’, Westerly, vol. 27, no. 4, December, 1982, p. 114.

^[18] Robert J. Merritt, The Cake Man, (Sydney, 1978), p. 12.

^[19] ibid., p. 30.

^[20] Personal interview with Robert Merritt, Sydney, July, 1982.

^[21] Henry Reynolds, The Other Side of the Frontier, pp. 200-201.

^[22] Also referred to as ‘Sandawara’ and ‘Pigeon’.

^[23] Stephen Hawke has prepared a revisionist history of the Kimberleys based upon Aboriginal oral testimony, cross-referenced with government records. Scheduled for publication in 1988, excerpts of the book – including the story of ‘Jandamarra’ – were published under the title, ‘Our Black Past’, ‘The Great Weekend’ Supplement, The Courier-Mail, 5 March, 1988, pp. Weekend 1-2.

^[24] Howard Pedersen, ‘Pigeon: An Aboriginal Rebel. A Study of Aboriginal-European Conflict in the West Kimberley, North Western Australia During the 1890s’, unpublished Honours Thesis, (Murdoch, 1980), p. 2.

^[25] Ion L. Idriess, Outlaws of the Leopolds, (Sydney, 1952), p. iv. All following quotations will be taken from this edition and page references will be given in parentheses in the body of the text, immediately after each citation.

^[26] Personal interview with Colin Johnson, Brisbane, July, 1980.

^[27] ibid.

^[28] Colin Johnson, Long Live Sandawara, (Melbourne, 1979), p. 72. All following quotations will be taken from this edition and page references will be given in the body of the text, immediately after each citation.

^[29] Gilbert, ‘Because a White Man’ll Never Do It’, p. 203.

^[30] Personal interview with Colin Johnson, Brisbane, July, 1980.

^[31] Stephen Muecke, ‘Discourse, History, Fiction: Language and Aboriginal History’, Australian Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, May, 1983, p. 77.

^[32] Pedersen, ‘Pigeon: An Aboriginal Rebel’, pp. 52-53.

^[33] See ibid., p. 57. In Pedersen’s words, ‘It is difficult to believe that such well orchestrated action and a planned military offensive could have arisen in a space of little more than a week. It invites speculation that Pigeon was thinking of such a move well before he killed Richardson’.

^[34] Idriess, ‘Give ‘Em A Go’, SALT, vol. 5, no. 9, 1943, p. 18.

^[35] Hugh Webb, ‘Black Words on a White Page: Colin Johnson’s Long Live Sandawara’, Seminar paper, Murdoch University, September, 1981.

^[36] Personal interview with Daisy Utemorrah, Perth, February, 1983.

^[37] Personal letter from Colin Johnson, August, 1982.

^[38] ibid.

^[39] Colin Johnson’s speech at the ‘Aboriginal Literature’ section of the National Word Festival, Canberra, March, 1983.

^[40] Personal letter from Colin Johnson, August, 1982.

^[41] Johnson, ‘White Forms; Aboriginal Content’, in Jack Davis and Bob Hodge, eds, Aboriginal Writing Today, (Canberra, 1985), p. 28.

^[42] This may be partly because of Ellis’s thorough familiarity with the history of Truganini. Her penchant for detail may retard the pace of this fictional treatment but her biography, Trucanini: Queen or Traitor?, (Canberra, 1981), is stronger as a result of this comprehensive approach.

^[43] Nancy Cato and Vivienne Rae Ellis, Queen Trucanini: The Last of the Tasmanians, (Sydney, 1976), p. 158. All further quotations will be taken from this edition, and page numbers will be included immediately after each citation in the body of the text.

^[44] Robert Drewe, The Savage Crows, (Sydney, 1976), p. 90. All further quotations will be taken from this edition, and page numbers will be included immediately after each citation in the body of the text.

^[45] Personal interview with Robert Drewe, Adelaide, March, 1982.

^[46] ibid.

^[47] ibid.

^[48] Quoted from the front dustcover of Wooreddy.

^[49] Johnson, Wooreddy, p. 5. All further quotations will be taken from this edition, and page numbers will be given in parentheses immediately after each citation, in the body of the text.