From the initial research that I have done there are a number of massacre sites along Overland Stock Route that happened in the 1840s– the initial access to territory in South Australia with its logic of elimination. The logic of elimination in settler colonialism is premised on the securing — the obtaining and the maintaining — of territory.
Settler colonialism has both negative and positive dimensions. Negatively, it strives for the dissolution of aboriginal society. Positively, it erects a new colonial society on the expropriated land base. The ideology was that the colonial settlers (initially pastoralists) could use the land better than the first peoples with Aboriginal people being accorded no rights to their territory. The remote colonial frontier was linked to the metropolis through international market forces that linked Australian wool to the Yorkshire mills in England.
To be able to continue with the project I need to link up with researchers or the History Trust of SA so that I am able to link the references to the massacres to contemporary sites.
Nourishing Terrains 
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