Crossed tracks on Ngurra Mala, ownership and dispossession requests and resilience at the centre of the Northern Territory of Australia : told from written records and conversations with the peoples of Marlinja - Newcastle Waters and Kulumindini - Elliott / Jackie Wolfe
- Bib ID:
- 8044328
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wolfe, Jacqueline Susan, author
- Description:
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- Darwin : Historical Society of the Northern Territory Inc., 2019
- ©2019
- xvii, 262 pages : colour ilustrations, colour maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781925800128 (paperback)
- 1925800121
- Summary:
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"Ngurra Mala tells stories of the life changes that the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people who live at the crossing of these tracks in and around Marlinja - Newcastle Waters and Kulumundini - Elliott have experienced since those first new Australians and their large four-footed creatures left their mark."--page 1.
- Full contents:
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- Caution, Dedication, Thanks
- Appreciation
- Illustration List
- Part I Voices: Who tells the stories of Crossed Tracks: Tracks
- Fine you write down our other stories
- What this Kardeba had previously learned
- The search for stories of Crossed Tracks
- Voices raised - voices heard.
- Part II Ownership and Dispossession: Where Tracks cross:
- Tracks
- New tracks
- The Overland Telegraph Line
- Establishing the Track
- This country
- The peoples of this country Ngurra Mala
- Living in country
- Establishing pastoral stations
- Where cattle are king
- Tracks for cattle: The Travelling Stock Routes
- Where Tracks Cross - the ridge becomes a town
- Who Owns This country
- Aboriginal 'Ownership' and responsibilities
- New 'Owners' of the land and their responsibilities
- Those who choose to stay on their country
- A reserve on this country for its people
- Workers in cattle
- Station time: living conditions of workers in the cattle
- So many Aboriginals living at Newcastle Waters Station and in the town
- The Ration Station and the Aboriginal Aged and Infirm Camp
- From working as unpaid labour to receiving Aboriginal wages
- Aboriginal Trust Accounts - or stolen wages
- Government benefits claimed or not claimed
- The Full Award Wage will be paid - but
- In Two Years' time
- When Track Diverge
- Newcastle Waters town - on the country known as Marlinja
- The town of Elliott - on country known as Kulumindini
- The Walk Offs
- How the pastoral industry dealt with those'practical matters'
- From station camp to town camp
- Crossed tracks at Marlinja - Newcastle Waters and Kulumindini - Elliott.
- Part III Requests and Resilience: The petition: your assurance that our tribe will not be disbanded would be appreciated:
- The Petition
- The Aboriginal camp in the town of Newcastle Waters
- The Aboriginal camp at Newcastle Waters station
- Pastoral station camps in the mid 1940s
- The Newcastle Waters Station camp in the early 1950s
- Newcastle Waters Station camp in February 1952
- Newcastle Waters township camps
- The Ration Depot and Aboriginal Aged and Infirm Camp
- Aboriginal camps in the town of Elliott
- Recurring problems - recurring solutions
- Absorption or dispersal: the official position
- Patrol Officer Bray's report on the Petitioners and the Petition
- Bray's addendum on the water supply matter
- Director Moy's solution
- The follow-up
- Other solutions to continuing problems
- Solidarity and some outside help
- Decision-making from a distance
- Respectful naming
- Respect for the names of places
- Respect for people's names
- Elliott: focal point for Central Australia or shanty town for all
- The disruption of war
- Early applications for land at Elliott
- Elliott will become the focal point for Central Australia
- More interest in lots and the public auction
- Interest from religious denominations
- An Aboriginal compound in Elliott
- The cost of developing a new town
- Development of the town has not been along the lines anticipated
- Emergent issues
- Elliott is speedily developing into a shanty town
- Where basic modern essential are non-existent
- The town of Elliott and the major stock routes
- Elliott has tow or three broken wheels
- Another request for electricity to no effect
- A suitable site for native community
- A blacks camp has been formed at Elliott township
- Solutions proposed
- Locations where natives might be permitted to live
- A location for an Aboriginal camp in Elliott
- Camp designated - no huts, no services, no facilities
- Living in North camp
- Public servants look back
- Respectfully yours - a critical commentary
- Requests, indifference, rejections
- Read and heed this cautionary tale
- To Deny equal opportunities would be un-Australian: two communities - two schools
- A school at Newcastle Waters would have quite a good attendance
- Schooling for Aboriginal children
- A school for Aboriginal children in Newcastle Waters
- A school opens, closes and reopens in Elliott
- A subsidised transportation service
- School integration
- A colour bar in Elliott
- Health and related concerns
- Strong and divided opinions - from a distance
- He would not take her away from school no matter what happened
- With hindsight - responses to change
- Readiness for this assimilation business
- How educational systems may reinforce racial and social divided
- A fair go for our people: the Newcastle Waters stockworkers' walk-off
- The build-up
- They got Ward's wages not Award wages
- Those for and those against and equal wage
- The slow worker designation
- And three years to wait
- We want proper money and not bin wait three years
- Head stockman and strike leader Captain Major
- Roy Edwards: 'Bout best boss I ever work for
- A fair go for our people and myself
- Captain Major and District Welfare Officer Cooke talk to station owner Roy Edwards
- The Newcastle Waters stockworkers Walk-Off and Strike
- Official responses - official responsibilities
- One small victory
- The strikers respond to reality
- At Union Camp
- The national aftermath
- The Gurindji strike at Wave Hill
- The Land Rights Agenda in the Northern Territory
- Better wages - pastoral industry changes
- No formal education and few technical skills
- The future in a town camp
- District Welfare Officer Cooke's reappraisal of owner-manager Roy Edwards
- Land Rights
- Marlinja on Union Paddock
- Kulumindini at Elliott
- Resilience: finding and using their voice again
- Rough Tracks: challenges for Elliott - Kulumindini organisations:
- No organisation - no voice
- Eilliott's first Progress Association
- Town camp needs - town core expectations
- Elliott's Aboriginal camps in the mid 1970s
- The Aborigines Progress and Housing Association serves Elliott's town camps
- The Housing Association's limited role
- Management matters
- A housing disaster
- Gross dereliction of duty
- The Elliott District Progress Association
- Elliott Progress Association achievements
- From the Elliott Progress Association to the Elliott - Kulumindini Progress Association
- Serious business for the Elliott-Kulumindini Progress Association
- The recurring problem of grog
- Recurring deplorable camp conditions
- Recurring health hazards from the stockyards
- Two Associations discuss housing and related matters
- Common concerns - no improvements
- Jurisdictional confusion
- Elliott and District Community Government Council under consideration
- Elliott District Community Government Council established
- Elliott Community Government Council in action
- Elliott business enterprises
- Who benefits from community government activities
- Civic pride
- Elliott community government under scrutiny
- The puzzle of not-so-effective council representation
- Perhaps a matter of literacy and numeracy
- Perhaps a matter of language
- Aboriginal community decision-making
- Complex and contentious meaning of community
- Very rough tracks: Elliott-Kulumindini councils compete and conflict
- Permanent place to live or transient camp
- Governance options in small Northern Territory towns
- The case for a new Aboriginal organisation in Kulumindini-Elliott
- Gurungu Council established
- All we ever asked was what do you people want
- We live the problems - we see them every day
- Gurungu Council's big agenda
- Gurungu Council's actions
- Competition and conflict between Elliott-Kulumindini's organisations
- TCHIP - Commonwealth and Territory dollars for town camp housing
- Territory Legislature discusses a TCHIP program for Elliott
- The need for housing in Elliott is almost legend
- Not a case of a few whinging aboriginals
- Perspectives on the role of the Elliott Community Government Council
- One responsible and legitimate community organisation argument wins
- Gurungu Council achievements and continuing challenges
- Community leadership in Kulumindini-Elliott
- What to celebrate in 1988?
- The 40,000 year celebration
- Reflections on appropriate governance and appropriate supports
- The need for housing in Elliott is almost legend - history repeats itself
- Serving communities through innovative education: the Newcastle Waters and Elliott-Kulumindini schools in the late 1980s:
- Changes at Newcastle Waters Station
- Two communities - two very different schools
- The Newcastle Waters school in 1990
- More changes for the Marlinja-Newcastle Waters school
- From teacher to principal
- The Kulumindini-Elliott school in 1990
- Standing strong: the Kardeba - Mungara Bi-Cultural Program
- Community's expectations of the school
- The school's expectations of the community
- On a firm track
- Who sets educational and related goals?
- The value of two-way education
- Vibrancy and hope:
- Town and country
- The Open College of Kulumindi-Elliott
- Ngurra mala - places of the Dreaming
- Rain dance, Rain dance, Sing me a rain
- Kulumindini video
- Singing the language and the law
- Recording song lines
- Language and bush knowledge
- Learning by choosing and doing: good strong furniture and house repairs
- A place for women
- Craft production and sales
- Training for Kulumindini-Elliott's teachers
- Vital homemakers
- Open College opens up opportunities for all
- You're not useless
- Fulfilling Gurungu Councils' demanding agenda
- Sustaining hope - sustaining resilience
- But for how long
- Too distant and too small
- Parks in Kulumindini-Elliott
- The scourge of renal failure and heart disease
- Frack the rock - crack the community
- The cumulative impact of multiple external agendas
- Knowing neglect - persistent and pervasive disadvantage
- Creativity and resilience
- Recognition of Crossed Tracks on Ngurra Mala.
- Part IV The Nature of Memory:
- Sources, stories told and voices heard
- Aboriginal memory: Songlines and Genealogy
- The strength of community memory
- The fragility of community memory
- Short-term public memory
- Institutional memory
- The value of the archival record - memory stored
- Details in the written record
- The local story in archives and other places
- Voices: When people tell their story
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Glossary of Australian terms.
- Notes:
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- "Caution: Please be aware that these stories include names of people now deceased and pictures of people now deceased. Honour their memory in the ways that are most appropriate for you and your family members."--page iii.
- Includes bibliography: pages 243-256.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Politics and government
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Government relations
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Economic conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Social conditions
- Local government -- Northern Territory
- Mudburra people (C25) (NT SE53-05)
- Jingulu / Djingili / Jingili people (C22) (NT SE53-06)
- Wampaya / Wambaya people (C19) (NT SE53-11)
- Newcastle Waters (North NT SE53-05)
- Elliott / Gurungu (North NT SE53-06)
- Australian
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