#Indigenous Australia

[iso7010]

hello, "happy" austr*lia day, here's how you celebrate:

pay each Aboriginal org or individual you see.

prepping this póst with the consent and supervision of an Aboriginal friend who's taking break from socmedia, i'd like to make it a mútual aïd train type. starting off with some Aboriginal orgs:

Change the Record - reduction of incarceration and violence focusing on community health, growth and stability

Sisters Inside - for incarcerated Aboriginal/TSI Women and Children

Pay The Rent - their slogan is "saying sorry isn't enough"

AIATSIS - focused on language and oral history preservation

The Streets Moviment - building opportunities for Aboriginal/TSI youth

here's a little catch-all article línking a few aforementioned orgs and some more.

Aboriginal folk of tumblr, feel free to add your own bànking accs so settlers can supply you directly. don't worry about the length. austr*lian settlers open your wallets + reblòğ SILENTLY.

mind you austr*lia day fell during general strike for Falasteen this year. assist the Indigenous folk next door as well, while you're at it. Indigenous struggles are all intertwined after all.

[area51-narutorun]

[claraameliapond]

For Australia, 26th January is invasion day, and that's literally it.

Today is a horrifically sad day in Australian history. Invasion day.

That's literally all it is.

Please please please do not join in the chorus of racism wishing anyone a "Happy Australia day" on the 26th of January

We can, have and are moving forward together as a country,

But we cannot truly do so if a celebration of our country and identity is held on the literal anniversary of the brutal and long-standing invasion, massacre and occupation of Australian aboriginals, the first peoples of Australia.

This invasion and subsequent violent Colonisation was full of many horrors that lasted well into the late twentieth century, and the long-standing repercussions of which have lasted to this day.

The stolen generations , in which generations - multiple generations of young aboriginal children were literally stolen by white colonists from their families, sent to missions, (detention boarding "schools ") , in which they were converted to Christianity and prepared for menial jobs, punished if they ever spoke their own languages, and subsequently put into the service of white families, with the intention to be bred out, never to see their families again. Never to be educated about their home, their families, their land, their culture, their languages, their history; they are the oldest continuing culture on earth. The last of these missions were in effect until 1969. By 1969, all states had repealed the legislation that allowed the removal of Aboriginal children under the policy and guise of "protection".

The indigenous health, longevity and poverty gaps still exist. Access to medicine, medical care, healthcare, a western education, all things we deem human rights by law, are not accessible to many rural communities still. They are provided, but in western ways, on western terms, with a gap of understanding how best to implement those services for an entirely different culture , that we do not have a thorough understanding of - that was what the referendum was about: , how best to implement the funds that are already designated to provide those services, because it's not currently working or usable by those communities. Our aboriginal communities are still not treated equally, nor do they have the same access we all enjoy to things like healthcare services, medicines and western education.

It is horrific and insensitive to therefore celebrate that day as our country's day of identity, because it's literally celebrating the first day and all subsequent days of the invasion, the massacres, the stolen generations, the subjugation and mistreatment, the inequalities that still persist today. It celebrates that day, that act committed on that day, of invasion , violent brutal massacres of Aboriginal people, as a positive, 'good' thing. As something that defines Australia's identity and should define an identity to be proud of.

That's nothing to be proud of.

Our true history is barely taught in our school curriculum, in both primary and secondary school. Not even acknowledged.

It needs to be.

We cannot properly move forward as a country until that truth is understood by every Australian, with compulsory education.

January 26th is Not 'Australia day'. It's Invasion day. It's a sorrowful day of mourning.

Please do not wish anyone a "happy Australia day " today.

It's not happy and it's not Australia day.

Australia day should be at the end of Reconciliation week that is held from the 23rd May to 3rd June.

A sentiment that is about all of us coming together as a shared identity within many identities, accepting and valuing each other as equal, a day that actually acknowledges Australian aboriginal peoples as the first Australians - because they are.

This is literally about acknowledging fact - that is the truth of Australian history. Aboriginal cultures should be celebrated and embraced, learnt from, not ignored, treated as invisible and especially not desecrated by holding celebrations of national identity on anniversaries of their violent destruction.

Australian aboriginal peoples, cultures and histories, should be held up as Australia's proud identity of origins, because it literally is Australia's origins.

That's a huge, foundational integral part of our shared identity that must be celebrated and acknowledged.

Inclusivity, not offensive exclusivity. Australia day used to be on 30th July, also 28th July, among others. Australia Day on the 26th January only officially became a public holiday for all states and territories 24 years ago, in 1994. It's been changed a lot before. It can certainly be changed so it can be a nonoffensive , happy celebration of our shared Australian national identity for everyone, that respectfully acknowledges and includes the full truth of our whole shared history, not just the convenient parts.

There is literally no reason it can't be changed, and every reason to change it.

#Always Was Always Will Be

[newguineatribalart]

Aboriginal art by Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri

[homokinetic]

Found this going through my camera roll today

[hasellia]

Eyy, so @raptorbricks tagged me for this like a week ago and I'm finally got around to it! Like what Raptorbricks did I added links to the youtube sources of the soungs, plus I added some links to translations for some of the songs.

“Rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people.”

10 songs from my “on repeat” mix on shuffle:

The Bug Collector - Haley Henderickx

Musicawi silt | Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex (You don't need lyrics, just listen to the guitar and saxophone).

The Wisp Sings - Winter Aid

ingerlaliinnaleqaagut - Nanook (Translated Lyrics)

つきをみた (tsukiwomita) - Sohta (想太) | (YT link to an ENG fansub) | (Niconico link here)

Weather - Luck Luster

Kereshmeh; Reng-e Shalakhu (Persia: Ancient era) - Kazem Davoudian and Geoff Knorr | (WARNING PARADOX GAMES OST) (Link to the original Karamesh) (Link to original Reng-‌e Shalakhu)

ᐃᒥᖅᑕᖅ (Imiqtaq) - Riit | (Translated lyrics)

Dhaliwuy Bay - Yirrmal

Moon is Sharp - Grouper

... I swear I listen to more than just non-english songs and milennial Tiktok music, the algorithm just wanted to expose me.

I might reblog this later to give a quick summery of the context of each song and some of my reccomended videos for getting into non-western music.

Now for the Ten I choose to expose their music taste are...

@grapeagata @broccoli-bitching @crocadilly @enchanteddaydreams @ofals @sock-puppet-dinosaur @tootheyes @justgoji @theolminitiative and @ratbonesart.

No actual obligation to join if you don't want to. However, anyone is free to join in if they want, just make sure to tag me!

[innervoiceartblog]

15 years on from the National Apology to Stolen Generations, we continue to remember and acknowledge those who suffered as a result of past government policies of forced child removal and assimilation.

It is important, that as a nation, we commemorate this significant milestone, acknowledging the wrongs of the past, while reflecting on the work that still needs to be done to address the impacts of unresolved trauma.

[thecodyagenda]

This post was made on Wajuk land, I wish to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land I am on and I acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and contributions to this land and country.

Hey everyone in Australia it’s currently NAIDOC week, which is held from the first week of July annually. It’s a week to highlight the culture, achievements and history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Please keep in mind I myself am not Indigenous nor a person of colour.

[image description: The 2022 National NAIDOC Poster which is black and white except for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags. There are three speech bubbles saying Get Up, Stand Up, and Show Up which are next to closed fists and various texts highlighting Indigenous struggles such as “White Australia has a Blak history.]

Aboriginal culture is the oldest continuous living culture on Earth which has evidence that it extended back 65,000 years. At the time of colonial invasion in 1788 it was estimated that around 250 languages and 600 dialects were spoken in around 500 different nations. Today, only 120 languages are still spoken and many are in danger of becoming extinct.

I’ve compiled a list of resources below to help support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander causes and for people to learn about language, country and culture.

Educational Resources

Map of Australia’s First Peoples & Explanation Of Country

Welcome To Country, Acknowledgement of Country and Understanding Ceremony

Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Blak, Black, Blackfulla – Language is important, but it can be tricky

Aboriginal English: AbE and Kriol

List of petitions to support Indigenous Australian causes (I’m not sure how many of these are Australian only)

Protect sacred Djab Wurrung birthing trees from expansion of the Western Hwy by Vicroads

End the abuse of Aboriginal children. #CloseDonDaleNow.

Create a database of traditional place names

Uluṟu Statement From The Heart

Support The Rights Of First Nations Cultural Educators

Blak Creators To Support

Tiktok

Books: The White Girl (Tony Birch), Catching Teller Crow (Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina), Butterfly Song (Terri Janke), Living on Stolen Land (Ambelin Kwaymullina), Dark Emu (Bruce Pascoe), The Boy From The Mish/Ready When You Are (Gary Lonesborough)

Music

Artists

Charities That Support Indigenous Australians

Aboriginal Charity Guide

ANTaR: Justice, Rights and Respect For Australia’s First Peoples

Indigenous Literacy Foundation

If anyone finds these to be outdated/incorrect or has any other resources they’d like me to add: feel free to let me know

[elfinblaze]

Still Here and Thriving

Dylan Mooney is a legally blind Yuwi artist from Queensland. His 2023 exhibition Still Here and Thriving portrays Mooney's experience as a member of both the Indigenous and LGBTQIA+SB (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Sistergirl and Brotherboys) communities of Australia.

His works are digital illustrations with ink, and the skin of the figures is painted in ochre from Yuwi Country (the Mackay region in Queensland).

Dylan Mooney's work is on display at the N.Smith Gallery, Gadigal Country, Sydney.

[birdiebats]

Me when researching Indigenous Criminology:

[aroace-nero]

[tyrannoninja]

This is my depiction of an Aboriginal Australian huntress living sometime long before the European invasions of the 19th century. I admit that there's a lot of romantic fantasy going into this design, but to make it come across less like an ignorant stereotype, I did do some quick homework on what Aboriginal Australian clothing would have looked like in pre-invasion times. One thing I learned is that some Aboriginal cultures liked to draw or inscribe designs like lozenges or cross-hatching into their loincloths, which inspired the patterns on the one my heroine is wearing here.

[newguineatribalart]

The Rainbow Serpent Ngalyod by Mick Kubarrgu

[tenth-sentence]

Generally speaking, every part of Country in Aboriginal Australia contains a set of travel paths crisscrossing the landscape, in which sacred places occur that were created by the ancestors.

"Design: Building on Country" - Alison Page and Paul Memmott

[whats-in-a-sentence]

If necessity is the mother of invention, then it naturally flows that Indigenous people, who have survived in some of the harshest conditions over major climatic changes, must be inherently innovative and adaptable.

"Design: Building on Country" - Alison Page and Paul Memmott