tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post7643157477074594271..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Saturday Morning MusingsJim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-89611574103341111722008-02-03T06:36:00.000+11:002008-02-03T06:36:00.000+11:00Good morning Neil. I knew where you were coming fr...Good morning Neil. I knew where you were coming from with your comment on Yusuf. I just did not think that it added anything new.<BR/><BR/>I am glad that you are finding the material interesting. There, are of course, lots of examples of disruption. <BR/><BR/>From my perspective, I am interested in variations in patterns, the way in which differing local or regional conditions affected things.<BR/><BR/>I would surmise, as an example, that disruption in inland farming regions was more complete simply because there were fewer refuge areas. As a second example, on the coast the rise of diarying created land pressures. However, it also appears to have opened employment opportunities for Aboriginal people because Europeans moved from some occupations into diarying. <BR/><BR/>So far as the Dainggatti are concerned, I have the gut feel (this may prove to be very wrong)that there were significant differences between the upper and lower Macleay in the nature of Aboriginal responses.<BR/><BR/>In all this, people stand out too like Emma Callaghan on the Aboriginal side or Dr Kent Hughes on the European. <BR/><BR/>By the way, and I had not realised this, the Wrights employed Dainggatti. I will follow this one up a little later because it adds to the lost race interest in Bora Ring as compared to the still living reality. <BR/><BR/>For my own reasons, I need to follow up on the Walcha/Woolbrook Aborigines. Rhonda's comment suggest a D. presence here, too, again with an Upper Macleay connection.<BR/><BR/>Have a look, by the way, at the report of the Aboriginal Protection Board for the year ended June 1940. Paternalistic yes. Genocidal, no - http://asset0.aiatsis.gov.au:1801/webclient/StreamGate?folder_id=0&dvs=1201980801348~996<BR/><BR/>I must standardise my spelling on the tribe, by the way.Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-83013299210348849622008-02-02T23:40:00.000+11:002008-02-02T23:40:00.000+11:00Sorry to make you cranky, Jim, but I liked the fac...Sorry to make you cranky, Jim, but I liked the fact that a Subcontinental Muslim Australian and I could feel much the same way about the Apology issue, hence my 110% agreement with Irfan Yusuf. I am not just for an apology, as you know, but I am enthusiastic about it and overjoyed that we are dealing with it at last. Pretty much have been since 1988.<BR/><BR/>This post is interesting. My own Aboriginal descent came about, so I was told, through and Aboriginal man having a relationship, afterwards denied, with a white widow. So the story goes... Some in the family deny it still.<BR/><BR/>The other thing that strikes me is that the material you quote gives good examples of the disruption and mingling of groups through all manner of reasons, including mission interests, land clearing, administrative practice, so that groups that had little connection with one another often ended up out of touch with their true country and story. Quite a few of the problems we have today come from this, especially where the groups so brought together were hostile towards each other.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand one of the amazing things about my nephew's mother's family is that some of them, at least, remained pretty much where their ancestors had been before 1800.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com