{"title":"The Changing Politics of Miscegenation","authors":"M. Rolls","doi":"10.22459/AH.29.2011.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.29.2011.05","url":null,"abstract":"In Tasmania’s Mercury newspaper Henry Reynolds raised the contentious issue of identity in respect to Tasmanian Aboriginal people of mixed heritage. Such people, Reynolds stated, might better be described as Creole. This paper firstly canvasses why it is that notions of hybridity are anathema to many Aborigines, then proceeds to discuss how the elision of white heritage and identity invoke some of the same contested ideologies underpinning the assimilation policy. The paper continues by examining the issue of identity in the context of the language used to describe the British usurpation of Australia and subsequent black-white relations. Finally, the paper examines the impact that the Aboriginal presence has had and is having on the psyche of settler-Australians, and suggests a reason why it is that many settler-Australians in mixed Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal partnerships appear comfortable with, or at least do not resist, having their offspring elide one heritage and identity (white) for the sake of another (Aboriginal).","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"26 1","pages":"64-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73057718","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":"Master Narratives and the Dispossession of the Wiradjuri","authors":"G. McDonald","doi":"10.22459/AH.22.2011.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.22.2011.10","url":null,"abstract":"This paper and the concerns it raises developed from my study of Wiradjuri people's relationships to land, as part of a study of the Wiradjuri Regional Aboriginal Land Council's experiences with the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983. At first, it seemed it would be straightforward to identify practices, values and speech acts through which Wiradjuri people understood and articulated these relationships. But as soon as I started to ask, what does land mean to Wiradjuri people today, I found I was writing defensively rather than descriptively I was needing to convince, conscious of a refusal 'out there' in the world of potential readership, academic and non-academic, to acknowledge that Wiradjuri people, encapsulated in the centre of New South Wales' agricultural heartland, had any relationships to land after their 180 years' experience of colonisation. This paper does not look at those meanings I wished to write about, except briefly to contextualise my discussion. Instead, I look at the sources of my disquiet and the larger question which kept confronting me: within what discursive space can one talkabout Wiradjuri people having any meanings at all?","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"26 1","pages":"162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84410607","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":"'Wire Yard': A Song from Near Lake Eyre","authors":"L. Hercus, G. Koch","doi":"10.22459/AH.23.2011.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.23.2011.08","url":null,"abstract":"Eric Bonython accompanied by Ern Murray composed a song in 1950 while working in the Wire Yard gives a glimpse of Aboriginal traditions. This song is one of the mythological significance songs as it was real to the people of the Lake Eyre basin.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"225 1","pages":"72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73352643","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":"From Sydney to Tingha: Early Days in the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship","authors":"J. Horner","doi":"10.22459/AH.11.2011.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.11.2011.05","url":null,"abstract":"Jack Horner details the background and his memories of a trip he took to Tingha when he became the Honorary Secretary of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship in Sydney in September 1958. He explains that the trip's purpose was to look at Aboriginal reserves (an illegal activity for white folks), and to check complaints about policemen harassing Aborigines.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"1 1","pages":"33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73411337","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":"Writing and Remembering Frontier Conflict: The Rule of Law in 1880s Central Australia","authors":"A. Nettelbeck","doi":"10.22459/AH.28.2011.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.28.2011.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"15 1","pages":"190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73428217","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":"'They Same As You and Me': Encounters with the Gadia in the East Kimberley","authors":"B. Shaw, J. Sullivan","doi":"10.22459/AH.03.2011.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.03.2011.06","url":null,"abstract":"The life history of Jack Sullivan, born on Argyle station in 1901 to a European father of the same name and a 'fullblood' Aboriginal woman of Djamindjung background, is presented. Jack is one of the few remaining 'old identities' of the East Kimberley. He talks about his early childhood and life in connection to the station and the Aboriginal community.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"6 1","pages":"96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73878425","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 Legend of the Good Fella Missus","authors":"Margit E. McGuire","doi":"10.22459/AH.14.2011.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.14.2011.06","url":null,"abstract":"The dominant historical myth about the relation between white women and Aborigines portrays the former as kind mistresses and the latter as objects of their maternal care. This paper attempts to retrieve and evaluate what white women could see, speak, and know of Aborigines - and especially the images through which white women represented their contact with Aborigines and Aboriginal Australia - in the century before World War Two. Although the 'good fella missus' has a number of faces, individual struggles and differences are less important to this analysis than the power and persistence of the myth. The good fella missus is a pioneer outfacing Aboriginal hostility, and bringing succour to their destitution. She is the missionary seeking salvation for her black brethren. She tends the sick, clothes the naked, and soothes the dying. She is also the literary woman enshrining herself in a position of benevolence and authority in race relations. She has sisters in the other colonies of the British Empire such as the memsahibs of India. She enters the annals of Australian history at about the time that Victoria came to the throne - a monarch who herself evolved into the imperial mother - cultivating an interest in the solicitude for her far-flung native subjects. In the democratic sphere a similar role was assumed by that symbol of service, Florence Nightingale.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"74 2","pages":"124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72386468","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":"Mapping outside the square: cultural mapping in the south-east Kimberley","authors":"Kim Mahood","doi":"10.22459/AH.30.2011.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.30.2011.02","url":null,"abstract":"In June 2005 I carried out a 'cultural mapping' project at the invitation of the Walmajarri Aboriginal owners of Paruku (Lake Gregory) in the south-east Kimberley. The team of white people with their varied expertise who assisted me were geomorphologist Jim Bowler from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, tourism consultant and trainer Petrine McCrohan from Kimberley TAFE, anthropologist Catherine Wohlan from Broome, linguist Eirlys Richards, also from Broome, Mark Ditcham, co-ordinator of the Paruku Indigenous Protected Area, and John Carty, an anthropology doctoral student working for the Palyalatju traditional medicine organisation based at the nearby Balgo community.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"23 22","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72420994","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":"George Coolbul: Imagining a Colonised Life","authors":"Malcolm Allbrook","doi":"10.22459/AH.32.2011.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.32.2011.03","url":null,"abstract":"The lives of George Coolbul and Henry Prinsep intersected briefly during the six years between 1866 and 1872, when Prinsep employed Coolbul as a stockman on his properties near Bunbury, 140 kilometres south of Perth. We know a great deal about Prinsep, a prominent citizen of the colony and a prolific artist who, between 1898 and 1907, was Western Australia's first Chief Protector of Aborigines and in this position the chief architect of the notorious Aborigines Act 1905. The Battye Library of Western Australian History holds a large collection of Prinsep's papers: diaries covering his colonial life from his arrival from England aged 22 in 1866 until his death in Busselton in 1922, letters from his wide circle of family and friends in England, other colonial posts and Western Australia, reminiscences and memoirs and over 1,000 photographs, sketches and drawings. Of Coolbul, by contrast, we know virtually nothing and what we do know is through the eyes of Prinsep in his various guises as pastoral employer, church-going humanitarian and artist. Their period of interaction was well before the systematic collection of intrusive government information - initiated by Prinsep and perfected by his successor AO Neville.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"62 1","pages":"49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78027605","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":"Aborigines and European Social Hierarchy","authors":"H. Reynolds","doi":"10.22459/AH.07.2011.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/AH.07.2011.07","url":null,"abstract":"Until the 1840s the main emphasis of policy makers in the Australian colonies was on the incorporation of the Aborigines into colonial society. Confidence in this plan declined as the century progressed and some argued all along that the blacks belonged to a doomed race which could never be assimilated. Whereas assimilationists of the mid-twentieth century made no mention of class when they projected future Aboriginal adoption of the 'Australian way of life' their counterparts a hundred years and more earlier usually had a clear picture of a hierarchical society of ranks and orders differentiated by wealth and power and status. Views about colonial society varied and changed over time yet any discussion about the absorption of the Aborigines necessarily involved the question of where in the hierarchy they would be placed. The race question was by its very nature also a class question. This was apparent in almost every area of white-Aboriginal relations - in the policies and attitudes of the Europeans and in the Aboriginal response as well.","PeriodicalId":42397,"journal":{"name":"Aboriginal History","volume":"37 1","pages":"124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80108674","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}