[recoznet2] Captive Lives: Looking for Tambo and His Companions
From the SMH Citysearch: location: Australian Museum address: 6 College St Sydney , 2000 cross street: William St hours: Aug 14-Nov 28 Daily 9:30am- 5:00pm prices: General museum admission: $5 adult, $3 concession, $2 child, $12 family Australian Cannibal Boomerang Throwers 1885 Captive Lives: Looking for Tambo and His Companions This is the shocking story, painstakingly researched and curated, of the abduction of nine Aboriginal people from North Queensland in 1883, and eight more in 1892. They were taken by an American showman, for display in Barnum and Bailey's Circus. They were subjected to a relentless tour as sideshow curiosities, and then used for anthropological studies. Tambo (a name invented for his circus career) was the first to die - only two of the 17 taken are known to have returned home. In 1993, the mummified remains of Tambo were found in a funeral home in Cleveland, Ohio. He was identified, and eventually brought back to his own land and laid to rest. Tambo may have travelled further than usual in his time with the circus, but his experience reflects that of many Aboriginal people who were removed and separated form their families and homes by Australian government policies. The prejudice and disregard shown by Barnum and Bailey toward indigenous people were not merely circus attitudes, but the general relationship between indigenous groups and colonial powers. Using the resources of archives, libraries, museums and supported by Aboriginal communities in northern Queensland, the exhibition reveals not only the tragic fate of Tambo and his companions, but also how indigenous people were subjected to stereotyping, exploitation and dislocation, the effects of which are still evident today. The return of Tambo to Palm Island, his native home, was a symbolic moment in the current process of reconciliation in Australia. This exhibition is a powerful reflection on both the past and the present. Jacqui Taffel --- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words:unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
[recoznet2] Fw: mapuche campaign
-- From: Estela Fuentes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mapuche campaign Date: Monday, August 16, 1999 7:34 PM Hi Irene, this email was sent to me by a friend, she is Mapuche and works for an organisation called Lulul Mawidha, a media organisation, obviously it's been translated and she ask's for it to be redistributed. The law will mean that the ninth region, where Temuco is, will be the only region where this law will be applied, Temuco and it's surrounding towns and communities (the ninth region) is predominantly Mapuche settled. The authorities will literally get away with murder.. Subject: please respond and pass on this message Just a week away from the presidential call in La Moneda to "a great civilian treaty" to resolve the Mapuche problem, the Mayor of the 9th Region, Oscar Eltit, required last Wednesday 11th of August, to the Appealing Court of Temuco, that the State Security Law be applied to all those responsible for the fires that occured in the region which affected the Forestry Corporation of Mininco in Collipulli and Ercilla. Las principales sospechas, por cierto recaen sobre los líderes Mapuche, así como en la Coordinadora de Comunidades de Arauco y Malleco, a quienes no sólo se le atribuyen estos incidentes sino que a además se les vincula con organismos extremistas los cuales estarían infiltrando las comunidades. The main suspects, are of course the Mapuche leaders, as well as the Community Cordinator of Arauco and Malleco, who not only have been attributed with the fires but also been linked with extremist organisations, which according to the authorities would be infiltrating these communities. If the State Security Law is applied this coming Monday 16th of August, anybody consider a suspect can be detained, more police will "patrol" the communities, and everything will be done in secrecy to the point that even the press could be prohibited of informing the public of what is taking place during this procedures. The represive character of such a measure not only shows the antidemocratic sentiments of the government, but also the intention of the government to give a delictual character to the organizations and activities developed by the Mapuche communities, in order to divide the society about the Mapuche problem. It is very important to send faxes to the following persons asking them not to pass the State Security Law against the Mapuche people. JULIO GRANDON PDTE DE LA CORTE DE APELACION DE TEMUCO FAX : 56- 45- 271891 OSCAR ELTIT INTENDENTE DE TEMUCO IX REGION 56-45 - 213064 Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle Presidente de la República, Palacio de la Moneda, Santiago, Chile. Fax: 56-2-6 90 40 20 Ministerio del Interior Santiago, Chile. Fax: 56-2-6992165 * Jeannette Paillan Lulul Mawidha Fono/fax: 562-2714845 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Direccion: Americo Vespucio 1587 , Dpto 14 Macul Santiago - Chile --- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words:unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
[recoznet2] reconcilliation
Hi to all in the group and thanks for your postings. Just have a couple of thoughts to put up and see if they get any response. Interested in how people feel about this. I have spent the last ten years working in australia on community development and justice and equity projects and am wondering if we, as a nation are not headed in the wrong direction on Reconciliation. I was with a Tiwi lady last week who asked if I really expected her to be reconciled with the "mainstream" culture in Australia. I have to admit that this set me back a little. After a few minutes thinking about my and my families history at the hands of "white" australia i agreed with her that it would be foolish. A bit like going to bed with a known rapist and hoping that they will change because we are nice! Should not our efforts be instead based on reforming white society instead. I am not refering, here, to trying to reform the racist and brutal areas of politics, but of going behind that to the root causes of our racism. I believe that in a very real sense the brutality of what has happened to anglo-celts and other forced migrants including european POW's has left a deep scar on our psyche. The divorce from "our home lands" has in many ways crippled us spiritually. And our Kurri, Murri and TI Friends are right to say that it is the land that nurtures us. Should we, as people who believe in a just society, be working towards reconciling, white australia to its own lack of spirituality. My belief is that we as a group should ?perhaps? focus on developing an indigenous "white" spirituality. While this may sound crazy i am 8th generation Australian and while i, personally, feel a deep connection with the land, i dont feel that it would be appropriate to apropriate Indigenous spirituality. I put this forward because i am no longer sure of my position on "Reconciliation," at least as it stands now. Peter F (possum) McGrath Po Box 7136 East Brisbane QLD 4169 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tals.qut.edu.au/staff/peter/index.htm --- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words:unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
Re: [recoznet2] reconcilliation
Peter, you have put forward a view which I've long wondered about, asking myself the question, "But what does "reconciliation" really mean and why would the true People of this land *want* to be reconciled; what are they being reconciled *to*?". I guess to me reconciliation means - or at least I *hope* it means - white Australia coming at last to an understanding of the truths of the past and an absolute acceptance, deep respect for and protection of the rights of the People to be in their own traditional ways, as well as respecting and protecting the traditional cultures, the connection to the land and all that is, and doing all possible to ensure the wellbeing of the People and the land for ever and always. Not having heard of any moves to "appropriate indigenous spirituality" as being considered part of the "reconciliation process", I would be interested to hear/read more about that ... and most certainly, Peter, I agree with your comment on that. Respecting the traditional ways, spirituality, rights, etc of the People of this land is surely not in having non-indigenous Australians become "wannabe Aborigines". Neshoba At 08:09 AM 8/17/99 +1000, you wrote: Hi to all in the group and thanks for your postings. Just have a couple of thoughts to put up and see if they get any response. Interested in how people feel about this. I have spent the last ten years working in australia on community development and justice and equity projects and am wondering if we, as a nation are not headed in the wrong direction on Reconciliation. I was with a Tiwi lady last week who asked if I really expected her to be reconciled with the "mainstream" culture in Australia. I have to admit that this set me back a little. After a few minutes thinking about my and my families history at the hands of "white" australia i agreed with her that it would be foolish. A bit like going to bed with a known rapist and hoping that they will change because we are nice! Should not our efforts be instead based on reforming white society instead. I am not refering, here, to trying to reform the racist and brutal areas of politics, but of going behind that to the root causes of our racism. I believe that in a very real sense the brutality of what has happened to anglo-celts and other forced migrants including european POW's has left a deep scar on our psyche. The divorce from "our home lands" has in many ways crippled us spiritually. And our Kurri, Murri and TI Friends are right to say that it is the land that nurtures us. Should we, as people who believe in a just society, be working towards reconciling, white australia to its own lack of spirituality. My belief is that we as a group should ?perhaps? focus on developing an indigenous "white" spirituality. While this may sound crazy i am 8th generation Australian and while i, personally, feel a deep connection with the land, i dont feel that it would be appropriate to apropriate Indigenous spirituality. I put this forward because i am no longer sure of my position on "Reconciliation," at least as it stands now. --- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words:unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
[recoznet2] PR: ATSI Victory in CERD Decision
PRESS RELEASE 16 March 1999 Statement by Les Malezer, Deputy Chairperson of NIWG CERD Maintains Pressure on Australian Racism Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can claim a significant victory in their bid for international recognition and defence of their human rights. Todays decision [see below] by the International Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), to continue to monitor the Native Title laws in Australia, is a major success for the human rights of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The National Indigenous Working Group on Native Title (NIWG) claims that the Australian Government has been soundly rebuffed in its attempt to force a backdown on CERDs previous decision in March 1999. The Australian Government desperately wants a political, compromise position, which it cannot get, regarding its laws which allow racial discrimination against Native Title holders. NIWG believes the Australian Government can now expect to face wider scrutiny, and harsher criticism, of its Native Title laws and policies, by the international community. It is certain that Australia will now be officially reported to the United Nations General Assembly at the end of 1999, for failing to address its breaches of the International Convention on the Elimination on All Forms of Racial Discrimination (the Convention). Furthermore, Australia must again appear before CERD in March 2000, when the Committee will once again examine whether Australia has acted to ensure the Native Title laws comply with the Convention. The CERD meeting next year will also expand its focus of attention to also consider other policies and programs of the government which affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The wider attention arises because the Australian Government has recently submitted outstanding periodic reports to CERD, which fell due in 1994, 1996 and 1998. The examination of these reports will mean that the Governments record on issues such as Deaths in Custody, Stolen Generations, and Reconciliation can also be examined. NIWG considers that there will even more submissions, complaints and delegations from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at the next CERD meeting. NIWG calls upon the Australian Government to immediately reform its racist policies and legislation. NIWG is deeply concerned that continuing acts of extinguishment and impairment of Native Title, which are occuring on a daily basis around Australia, will be found to be invalid and therefore cause major problems for developers and governments in the near future. NIWG considers that there is no moral or otherwise compelling basis for these racist, illegal acts to be validated when the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 is overturned. The State and Territory Governments are also developing and implementing Native Title laws which will prove to be illegal because they are racially discriminatory. The Australian Government must act quickly to remove its opposition to Aboriginal rights and rescind the offensive Native Title Amendment Act 1999 before March 2000. NIWG reaffirms its willingness to facilitate and participate in a process promoting meaningful discussions between the government and the representatives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Les Malezer + 61 419 710720 Pam Jones+ 61 419 648154 *CERD DECISION** CERD/C/55/Misc.31/Rev.3 16 August 1999 COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION 55th session 2-27 August 1999 Draft Decision on Australia 1. The Committee reaffirms the decisions concerning Australia which it took during its fifty-fourth session in March 1999. 2. In adopting these decisions, the Committee was prompted by its serious concern that, after having observed and welcomed over a period of time a progressive implementation of the Convention in relation to the land rights of indigenous peoples in Australia, the envisaged changes of policy as to the exercise of these rights risked creating an acute impairment of the rights thus recognized to the Australian indigenous communities. It considered in detail the information submitted and the arguments put forward by the State party. 3. The Committee takes note of the comments received from the State party which, in accordance with article 9 paragraph 2 of the Convention, will be included in the Committees annual report for 1999 to the General Assembly. 4. The Committee decided to continue consideration of this matter, together with the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Periodic Reports of the State party, during its fifty-sixth session in March 2000. 1353rd meeting 16 August 1999 ___ Les Malezer General Manager FAIRA Aboriginal Corporation Deputy Chairperson National Indigenous Working Group on Native Title NIWG Attending: Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and
[recoznet2] [Fwd: Qld. Media statement - Qld Native Title process delivers $800m mine, 1000 jobs]
-- Graham Young Phone: 61 7 3252 1470 W 61 7 3252 1471 F 0411 104 801 M Home Page: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au Premier, HON. PETER BEATTIE 16/8/99 Qld Native Title process delivers $800m mine, 1000 jobs The State Government's agreement-based native title process has delivered a $800 million nickel mine in Central Queensland, Premier Peter Beattie announced today. Mr Beattie said an agreement had been signed during the weekend by Marlborough Nickel Pty Ltd, the State of Queensland, and native title parties to allow the mine to proceed. "Once again, my Government's native title approach has delivered," Mr Beattie said. "This is a further demonstration that consultation - rather than confrontation - works. "I congratulate all of the parties involved." The native title parties to the agreement are the Barada, Barna, Kabalbarra and Yetimarla, and Darumbal communities. The Premier said the agreement showed that recent claims by the State Opposition of a breakdown in negotiations had been "nothing but cheap politics". "The State Opposition attempted to politicise these negotiations, and they failed," Mr Beattie said. Mines and Energy Minister Tony McGrady said Marlborough Nickel, which is one of Australia's largest laterite nickel resources, would employ 1000 people during the construction stage, and up to 300 full-time and part-time workers during the operational stage. "On top of that, this mine will inject more than $240 million a year into the State economy," Mr McGrady said. "So the construction - due to start next March - and operation of this mine will boost the Central Queensland economy, but it will also be another 'living' monument to sensible consultation." The new mine, which is 75 km north-west of Rockhampton, would produce 19,400 tonnes of nickel a year. Some would be railed to the nickel refinery in Townsville, while the remainder would be exported through Gladstone. CONTACT:Ron Watson 3225 8866
Re: [recoznet2] reconcilliation
At the Healing Day Ceremony in Centennial Park, Sydney this year, Uncle Max Harrison, Dharawal Elder, said "I don't believe in reconciling people but I believe in the people reconciling with Mother Earth" Just another way of looking at it. At Linga Longa Aboriginal Philosophy Farm this year every single person sitting in the cicle around the campfire - and there were hundreds - had an entirely different idea of what reconciliation is all about . Cheers Lynn Lynn Pollack 9/363 Edgecliff Road, Edgecliff. NSW. 2027. Australia Tel/Fax 61293282060 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words:unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
[recoznet2] Re: The Age: 'Stolen child' tells of capture
So, what's with the scare/single quotes then ?? Mr Age?? Mr Gunner was, clearly, stolen. D.J.McEvoy Alice Springs NT At 10:38 17/08/99 +1000, you wrote: THE AGE August 17, 1999 `Stolen child' tells of capture By CAROLINE MILBURN LAW REPORTER A young Aboriginal boy was chased through the bush by a white man and hidden under a blanket by relatives before being captured, the stolen generations trial heard yesterday. Mr Peter Gunner, now 51, told the Federal Court how a ``white fella'' grabbed him from his family at Utopia, an outback cattle station, after two previous bids to capture him failed. ``The first attempt was at the Utopia homestead camp where a truck pulled up and I took off and got away from him and hid down the river bank,'' Mr Gunner said. ``The Aboriginal people at Utopia hid me under a blanket. My grandmother, sisters and my mother's sisters, they were all sitting almost on top of me. I was under the blanket while this bloke was looking for me until he went away.'' Mr Gunner is one of two people involved in a landmark case against the Federal Government. He and another Aborigine of mixed descent, Mrs Lorna Cubillo, 61, are seeking compensation for being taken from their outback families decades ago and forced to spend their childhood in Northern Territory institutions. Mr Gunner said he escaped the second time by jumping from the back of the truck when it stopped at the station's boundary gate. But he was finally captured by a white man in a khaki uniform, thrown on to the back of a canvas-covered ute and driven 250 kilometres to St Mary's mission home at Alice Springs. ``I put up a bit of a struggle but he (the man) had a good grip on me and put me in the back of the truck,'' Mr Gunner said. ``I was crying and screaming, all the families were there, a lot of them were crying and yelling in Aboriginal language.'' Mr Gunner said he lived a happy, tribal life at Utopia, where his family taught him to hunt and treated him no differently from the other children. But at St Mary's the missionaries regularly gave him the worst punishment given to the children - 35 lashes with a garden hose - for using his fingers to eat from a plate, bed-wetting and for making his bed on the floor. Asked by his counsel Mr Jack Rush, QC, whether he had ever slept in a bed before, Mr Gunner said: ``No. I put all the blankets on the floor to make the bed on the floor ... I got a flogging.'' Mr Gunner said he escaped from St Mary's three times to find his mother, but each time the police caught him. When he was returned to the home after each incident, Mr Constable, a missionary, flogged him 35 times. ``(The third) attempt lasted about a month ... I just lived off the land around Alice Springs with my shanghai, killing birds and cooking them until the police got me again and brought me back to St Mary's,'' Mr Gunner said. Mr Gunner's lawyers estimate he was about seven when he was removed from his family. He told the court the missionaries sent him barefoot to school in Alice Springs, where he was put into the kindergarten class with much younger children. Mr Gunner said he could not read or write when he eventually left the school. The case is continuing. * This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." --- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words:unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
Re: [recoznet2] Re: The Age: 'Stolen child' tells of capture
[EMAIL PROTECTED] You could email the reporter at the address above and ask her why she or her editor thought it needed to be written that way. Trudy Bob Durnan wrote: So, what's with the scare/single quotes then ?? Mr Age?? Mr Gunner was, clearly, stolen. D.J.McEvoy Alice Springs NT At 10:38 17/08/99 +1000, you wrote: THE AGE August 17, 1999 `Stolen child' tells of capture By CAROLINE MILBURN LAW REPORTER A young Aboriginal boy was chased through the bush by a white man and hidden under a blanket by relatives before being captured, the stolen generations trial heard yesterday. Mr Peter Gunner, now 51, told the Federal Court how a ``white fella'' grabbed him from his family at Utopia, an outback cattle station, after two previous bids to capture him failed. --- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words:unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
