Promoting polyphony in museums and collections

 From  CAUMAC Council of Australian University Museums and Collections

webinar on 7 June 2021 

‘Polyphonic Perspectives:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural materials in Museums and University Collections and global issues of repatriation and restitution’

 Grounding Indigenous Rights_ labelling by community

TK Traditional Knowledge Labels

BC Biocultural Labels

Return  Reconcile Renew

 

How can individual communities be supported to drive their own repatriation efforts, rather than relying on uncoordinated central agencies?

 

Bakhtin theory polyphony

What was always known

 What was always known, children taken from families by Canadian government to residential schools never to return.

Kamloops: remains of 215 children found( Guardian 28 May 2021)

'The Kamloops Indian residential school was established in 1890 under the leadership of the Roman Catholic church, and closed in 1978.

It was part of a cross-Canada network of residential schools created to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children by removing them from their homes and communities, and forbidding them from speaking their native languages or performing cultural practices. Physical, emotional and sexual abuse were rampant within these institutions, as was forced labour.

At least 150,000 children attended such schools in what a historic 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission described as a “cultural genocide” targeting Canada’s Indigenous people.'

2015: Seven hearings at Truth and Reconciliation Commission

'More than 3,000 children died and were often buried in unmarked graves without any identification or notice to their parents. Death rates among indigenous children at residential schools were higher than among Canadian soldiers in the second world war, the report found. These were schools that often had no playgrounds but always had graveyards, according to commissioner Marie Wilson.'

 

Unsettled in Sydney | 2021

Untitled 

curated by Laura McBride

at Australia Museum Sydney

Review in SMH by Ali Gripper

10 May to 20 October 2021

week ending 29 May 2020

 Rio Tinto blow up  Puutu Kunti Kurruma country with 46,00 year old Pilbara sacred sites
 ...

Yindjibarndi win High Court appeal and now their exclusive native title rights are affirmed 2020
FMG first appealed in 2018
...
George Floyd killed by police officer Dan Chauvin in Minneapolis

Africans: First Fleeters

African Americans in First Fleet and afterwards
Cassandra Pybus Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers
'Did you know there were 12 Africans aboard the First Fleet?'

John Randall
Martin
'Black Caesar' - first bushranger
Billy Blue - ferryman, Blues Point
John Williams aka Black Jack - Kangaroo Island

William Blue ( Billy Blue): New South Wales State Library

What it is to be here: colonisation and resistance

In response to the anniversary of Cook making landfall in Kamay/ Botany Bay I have made an exhibition to display at The Portico Library, Manchester
Due to Covid19 close-down, it is now online until the Library opens:
What it is to be here: colonisation and resistance

Parkinson _ Sydney

Sydney Parkinson

link to NMA

Sourdough

more sourdough tips
Starter
Starter 7 steps
keeping small starter 
reviving starter

 Uses for spare starter

15 Mistakes

Starting 

Sticky

Cinnamon rolls
and again 

2020 Australian reporting on Cook

ABC video Encounters

Stan Grant Between the Ship & the Shore

Voice to Parliament

Co-design
Explanation of next steps - the co-design
Marcia Langton and Tom Calma in The Conversation


'However important symbols are to Aboriginal people, nine years of this work shows, incontrovertibly, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples do not seek more symbols. And certainly not in the constitution, which distributes power across the federation. They seek change that can make a concrete difference to their lives.'

Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians must involve structural change, not mere symbolism   Megan Davis 18 Feb 2020 The Conversation


and now another committee to consult and propose models for voices to regional, local,  and national governments... but no mention of Treaty (as yet)
Indigenous voice co-design  
https://www.niaa.gov.au/indigenous-affairs/indigenous-voice#resources

June Oscar AO 2018 One year on
“Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have consistently called for greater control over our destinies, for the ability to live freely and equally, and for greater recognition of our rights as the First Peoples of this land. We cannot afford to dismiss what our people have been calling for, for generations.
“We must not forget that this issue speaks not only to the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people but to the aspirations of all Australians – about the kind of nation we hope to share together.”

Commissioner Oscar urges the Government to respond to the Committee’s recommendations when the final report is released.
“I hope that one day, our political leaders will have the courage to honour the voices of our peoples as captured in the Uluru Statement and the numerous other processes related to constitutional reform that we have taken part in across the country.

“I believe, the citizens of this country, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, all want a strong, just and equal nation”

Coranderrk

link to Minutes of Evidence - parliamentary inquiry into call for self-determination and land by Kulin people

Their fundamental demands were simple yet radical: as stated in their final petition – 

signed by Barak and forty-five men, women and children: 

"We want the Board and the Inspector, Captain Page, to be no longer over us. 

We want only one man here, and that is Mr. John Green, 

and the station to be under the Chief Secretary; 

then we will show the country that the station could self-support itself."

Blanket day

link to photo 

Australian Aboriginals / photographed by Kerry & Co.
Copyright and permissions: Out of copyright: Created before 1955
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