Cover

Title page

Aerial Photograph - Page ii

Contents - Page v

Map - Page vi

Introduction - Page 1

Chapter I.

The Gathering Storm - Page 3

Chapter II.

Aboriginal Art as a Unifying Principle - Page 9

Chapter III.

Beginning Again - Page 11

Chapter IV.

The Hidden Places of Man's Power- Page 17

Chapter V.

A Visiting Advocate - Page 21

Chapter VI.

Shadows Over the Sun - Page 25

Chapter VII.

Arnhem Land as a Sanctuary for the Aborigines -Page 31

Chapter VIII.

The Right of the People to Know - Page 41

Chapter IX.

The Search for Something Eternal in Arnhem Land - Page 47

Chapter X.

An Emergency Arises - Page 51

Chapter XI.

The Use of Art as Mental Medicine - Page 57

Chapter XII.

Aboriginal Theology and Australian Politics - Page 63

Chapter XIII.

One Form of Script Leads to Another - Page 69

Chapter XIV.

The Function of Christian Missions Reviewed - Page 79

Chapter XV.

A Journey Through Mountains of Paper - Page 93

Chapter XVI.

Arnhem Land Aborigines in the Media - Page 103

Chapter XVII.

In Which We Come to the End of the Day- Page 109

Appendix 1.

Text of a statement prepared by the Rev. E. A. Wells and read at the House of Representatives Select Committee of Enquiry into the Grievances of Yirrkala Aborigines sitting at Yirrkala Mission on 1 October 1963 - Page 121

Appendix 2.

The wording of the Yirrkala Bark Petition - Page 127

Appendix 3.

Job analysis: General Secretaryship, Department of Overseas Missions, Methodist Church of Australasia, 1972 (analysis prepared by the Rev. C. F. Gribble) - Page 129

Appendix 4.

Chronological table of events- Page 131