{"title":"Briscoe's Erroneous and Mis-named 'Appreciation' of Kevin Gilbert","authors":"E. Gilbert","doi":"10.22459/AH.18.2011.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.18.2011.05","url":null,"abstract":"The Coordinator from the Kevin Gilbert Memorial Trust presents a reply to the article by Gordon Briscoe titled 'Appreciation' written about the life of Kevin Gilbert. The author of this article feels that the article is disrespectful towards the recently deceased Gilbert and that the article 'Appreciation' failed to achieve basic academic standards of research.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"41 1","pages":"47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80564127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paper Yabber: The Messenger and the Message","authors":"R. Foster","doi":"10.22459/AH.22.2011.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.22.2011.07","url":null,"abstract":"One of the tasks often given to Aboriginal people on the Australian frontier was that of messenger, and the messages they carried, usually letters, came to be known by the Pidgin English phrase 'paper yabber' or, less commonly, 'paper talk'. The first part of the paper will examine characteristic features of the Aboriginal role as messenger, or 'mailman'. The second part is a study of the Australian folklore that sprang up around the practice, in particular the seemingly ubiquitous story of paper yabber and the 'tobacco thief'. In tracing the history of this story, and its variants, one not only gets an insight into the function of popular stereotypes, but also the mechanisms by which they are transmitted.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"34 1","pages":"105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80936036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making a Treaty: The North American Experience","authors":"D. Barwick, H. Coombs","doi":"10.22459/AH.12.2011.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.12.2011.01","url":null,"abstract":"A paper written by Canadian anthropologist Diane Barwick to help the 1979 Aboriginal Treaty Committee in discussions on a possible Treaty with Australian Aboriginal people is presented. She offers information on earlier North American treaties between the government and Indian natives in Canada and the United States to aid the process.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"7 1 1","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78086843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Quasi-policing Aboriginal Expedition in Port Phillip in 1838","authors":"M. Fels","doi":"10.22459/AH.10.2011.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.10.2011.10","url":null,"abstract":"An account of a westward expedition of some Aborigines, mostly members of the first Aboriginal Police Corps in the Port Phillip District, from Melbourne in 1838 is presented. Several discrepancies in the story, resulting in the conviction of seven men variously for killing sheep, taking potatoes and killing a European, are highlighted.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"29 1","pages":"117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78221461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translating Oral Literature: Aboriginal Song Texts","authors":"Tamsin Donaldson","doi":"10.22459/AH.03.2011.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.03.2011.04","url":null,"abstract":"This essay discusses what is involved in making oral literature in Australian languages, especially songs, accessible to speakers of English. It offers a variety of linguistic, technical and above all historical and cultural reasons why so little has been attempted, and why so few of the attempts have been successful. One group of examples of oral literature given, were contributed by the last generation of the Wangaaybuwan people who can still speak their language, Ngiyambaa.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"97 1","pages":"62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74252104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politics and Demography in a Contact Situation: The Establishment of the Giles Meteorological Station in the Rawlinson Ranges, West Australia","authors":"L. Dousset","doi":"10.22459/AH.26.2011.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.26.2011.01","url":null,"abstract":"In connection with the Maralinga Project it has been decided to establish a permanent meteorological radar station at the nominal 600 mile point along the centre line of the range. The exact point cannot be determined until a more detailed reconnaissance is made. ... It is proposed now that a joint reconnaissance and construction team should leave Finke on the Adelaide–Alice Springs railway line, about 5th November 1955, and travel across through Mount Davies to the general area in which it is felt the final point may be chosen.1 In December of the same year, the reconnaissance survey team chose a site in the Rawlinson Ranges, WA. The patrol officer accompanying the team on this survey later termed it a ‘rush trip’ in which ‘there was no attempt made to select a site that would interfere as little as possible with the Aborigines’.2 Some months later, Len Beadell, then Chief Surveyor of the WRE, graded a track from Mulga Park to the Rawlinson Ranges, where the meteorological station, named Giles in honour of the explorer,3 was to be built.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"24 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75296456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The struggle for recognition: part-Aborigines in Bass Strait in the nineteenth century","authors":"Lyndall Ryan","doi":"10.4324/9781003137160-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003137160-6","url":null,"abstract":"The dispossession of the Aboriginal people in south eastern Australia was followed not by the disappearance of Aboriginal groups but by the development of separate part-Aboriginal communities, for the spirit of survival and adaptation in Aboriginal society is as strong as in any other. These communities have fought for recognition despite attempts to legislate them out of existence. They have either been isolated from 'white' society because they have been considered too Aboriginal, or they have been denied Aboriginal legal status because they have been considered too European. Above all they have been considered incapable of self-determination. This article explores the emergence and development of one part-Aboriginal community in south eastern Australia in the nineteenth century, the Cape Barren Islanders. It focuses upon their relations with the 'authorities' and 'outsiders' who made periodic attempts to change their identity and economy. The Islanders' resistance to these efforts is examined and their techniques for survival investigated.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"9 1","pages":"27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82565181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Language(s) of Love: JRB Love and Contesting Tongues at Ernabella Mission Station, 1940-46","authors":"D. Trudinger","doi":"10.22459/AH.31.2011.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.31.2011.03","url":null,"abstract":"The author seeks to examine the role of missionaries - in particular that of the Reverend JRB Love - in 'negotiating' the relative place of the colonising language, English, and an Indigenous language, Pitjantjatjara, in the life of an Aboriginal mission station, Ernabella, in Central Australia in the early 1940s. Lest there be any confusion, Love was also a 'translator' in the narrower sense, being involved at the mission in the conversion of part of the biblical text to the Indigenous language. This is an instructive story in itself that this article can only touch on, but I am more interested here in examining his role in, and his rationale for, advocating and attempting to negotiate a bilingual language policy at the mission site against an opposing vernacular-only policy.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"11 1","pages":"27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88118090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Controlling Marriages: Friedrich Hagenauer and the Betrothal of Indigenous Western Australian Women in Colonial Victoria","authors":"F. Jensz","doi":"10.22459/AH.34.2011.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.34.2011.02","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the colonial world, sex, sexuality and intimacy were topics of intense scrutiny. In colonial spaces sexual control was, according to Ann Laura Stoler, a method in which colonial authorities could regulate not only the lives of the Europeans within colonial spaces, but also the lives of Indigenous peoples. Missionaries were also very concerned with the sexuality and sexual practices of the people amongst whom they worked, and often saw the female sexuality of indigenous peoples as being in need of controlling and according to Christian norms. Missionaries had long expected their converts to conform to Christian moral codes relating to sex and sexuality. The historian Gorden Sayre has asserted in the context of seventeenth century northern America that 'missionaries took the well-defined Christian separation between the chaste and the unchaste and used it as an analogy for the distinction between the converted and unconverted around their mission.' Such sentiments seeped into the nineteenth century in all corners of the globe. Chastity was seen as a sign of a docile and regenerate people, and conversely, promiscuous behaviour was a sign of rebellion and a lack of respect for authority and Christian norms. Natasha Erlank has argued that missionaries in the 1840s in Xhosaland, South Africa lacked methods of enforcing upon the converts their preferred sexual codes and therefore used 'the control of spiritual resources to punish converts.' Such control included refusal of baptism, excommunication, and suspension from positions of moral authority. This paper argues that not only exclusion from but also inclusion within Christian practices served as forms of punishment for Indigenous people seen to be at odds with the moral practices and sexual codes expected on a mission station. In particular, this paper contends that the arranged marriages of Indigenous females on Moravian mission stations in the Colony of Victoria in the mid-nineteenth century was undertaken by the missionary in charge in order to control the sexuality of these women.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"18 1","pages":"35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89351059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'Their Darkest Hour': The Films and Photographs of William Grayden and the History of the 'Warburton Range Controversy' of 1957","authors":"P. McGrath, David Brooks","doi":"10.22459/AH.34.2011.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.34.2011.05","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the use of documentary films and photographs of Aboriginal people from the Ngaanyatjarra region of Western Australia in the late 1950s during a heated public debate about remote Aboriginal health and welfare. The recruitment of images of people in situations of physical distress to illustrate arguments about political and bureaucratic neglect was controversial, sparking accusations of propaganda and disagreement about the norms of Aboriginal well-being. Some of the images produced, most notably those of Western Australian politician William Grayden, had a significant impact on audiences at the time. Grayden's film, shown in a Perth cinema under the title 'Their Darkest Hour' and sometimes referred to as Manslaughter, is celebrated in recent histories of Aboriginal activism and extracts from it have been used by a new generation of activist filmmakers and artists. The perspectives of the Aboriginal people who appear in Grayden's images are, however, a notable absence in these accounts. When considered alongside other historical sources, local Aboriginal voices reveal a significant visual distortion of the quality of people's lives and the substance of their histories as they are remembered today.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"31 2 1","pages":"115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89806771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}