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Intro -- Figures, tables and maps -- Acronyms -- Prefatory note -- How shall we write the history of self‑determination in Australia? -- Part One: Self‑determination as a project of colonial authority -- 1. Self-determination in action: How John Hunter and Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land anticipated official policy in the late 1960s and early 1970s -- 2. An emerging Protestant doctrine of self‑determination in the Northern Territory -- 3. The Aboriginal pastoral enterprise in self‑determination policy -- 4. Unmet potential: The Commonwealth Indigenous managed capital funds and self-determination -- 5. After reserves and missions: Discrete Indigenous communities in the self‑determination era -- 6. 'Taxpayers' money'? ATSIC and the Indigenous Sector -- Part Two: Self‑determination as an Indigenous project -- 7. Adult literacy, land rights and self‑determination -- 8. Taking control: Aboriginal organisations and self‑determination in Redfern in the 1970s -- 9. Beyond land: Indigenous health and self-determination in an age of urbanisation -- 10. Self-determination's land rights: Destined to disappoint? -- 11. 'Essentially sea-going people': How Torres Strait Islanders shaped Australia's border -- Part Three: Self‑determination as principle of international law and concept in political theory -- 12. Self-determination under international law and some possibilities for Australia's Indigenous peoples -- 13. Self-determination with respect to language rights -- 14. Self-determination through administrative representation: Insights from theory, practice and history -- 15. Who is the self in Indigenous self‑determination?.

The Uluru Statement from the Heart of May 2017 articulated an Indigenous vision for a better relationship between settler and Indigenous Australians: one 'based on justice and self-determination'. The culmination of years of consultation with Indigenous people about constitutional recognition, the statement proposed a referendum in which the Australian people could approve (or not) the formation of an Indigenous deliberative and advisory body – a Voice to Parliament. The government-appointed Referendum Council endorsed this proposal, but the Australian Government quickly dismissed it in October 2017. One prominent advocate of the Uluru Statement and member of the Referendum Council, Megan Davis, seemed to anticipate that response when, back in January 2016, she stated that 'Australia has rejected self-determination – freedom, agency, choice, autonomy, dignity – as being fundamental to Indigenous humanness and development'.

Arriving in the remote Arnhem Land Aboriginal settlement of Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) in 1925, Alf and Mary Dyer aimed to bring Christ to a former buffalo shooting camp and an Aboriginal population many whites considered difficult to control. The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931 represents a snapshot of the tumultuous first six years of the Church Missionary Society's mission at Oenpelli and the superintendency of Alfred Dyer between 1925 and 1931. Drawing together documentary and photographic sources with local community memory, a story emerges of miscommunication, sickness, constant logistical issues, and an Aboriginal community choosing when and how to engage with the newcomers to their land. This book provides a fascinating and detailed record of the primary sources of the mission, placed alongside the interpretation and insight of local Traditional Owners. Its contents include the historical and archaeological context of the primary source material, the vivid mission reports and correspondence, along with stunning photographs of the mission and relevant maps, and finally the oral history of Esther Manakgu, presenting Aboriginal memory of this complex era. The Bible in Buffalo Country emerged from community desire for access to the source documents of their own history and for their story to be known by the broader Australian public. It is intended for the benefit of communities in western Arnhem Land and is also a rich resource for historians of Aboriginal history (and other scholars in relevant disciplines).