ABSTRACT
Aboriginal writing is deeply concerned with precise knowledge of the history of Aboriginal existence, gleaned if necessary from white records and prised out of white archives. The queensland government’s long-term plan was to eventually absorb Aboriginal people into the white community so that they and their cultures would become extinct. Aboriginal people still have a rich tradition of oral history, storytelling, philosophy, autobiography and biography, stored particularly by the older people. Aboriginal studies are concerned with the transformation of that oral literature into a written literature without necessarily destroying the original form in the process. School was the primary site for Aboriginal children to be socialized and imbued with european education. One People of Australia League became a meeting place where Aboriginal people could gather socially while, though many may have been unaware of it at the time, subconsciously their political identities were starting to take shape.
