Abstract

Elsey Station has been a familiar name to most Australians since the 1908 publication of Jeannie Gunn's popular 'We of the Never-never'. This paper attempts to reconstruct the history of prepastoral contact and pastoral settlement, using documentary materials and Aboriginal oral accounts recorded by Elsey residents. It shows that Elsey Aborigines used the phrase 'Making people quiet' to describe the treatment of their ancestors in the early days of pastoral settlement. The stories have been selected for their focus on the recruitment of Aborigines to assist in the process of pacification.

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