This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history. The contributors are a mix of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous scholars, who in different ways examine how the past lives on in the present, as myth, memory, and history. Each chapter throws fresh light on an aspect of history-making by or about Indigenous people, such as the extent of massacres on the frontier, the myth of Aboriginal male idleness, the controversy over Flynn of the Inland, the meaning of the Referendum of 1967, and the policyand practice of Indigenous child removal.这本书探讨了土著和非土著人民与土著历史的情感互动。贡献者是土著和非土著学者的混合体，他们以不同的方式研究了过去如何作为神话、记忆和历史活在现在。每一章都为土著人民创造历史的一个方面提供了新的视角，例如边境屠杀的程度、土著男性无所事事的神话、关于内陆Flynn的争议、1967年全民公投的意义以及土著儿童迁移的政策和实践。