#gugu badhun

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Gertz told these stories to the anthropologist Peter Sutton in the 1970s.

Well, one silly fool, he went and killed a bullock. He didn't kill it to waste, everybody's eating it – cut it all up and cooked it: beef hanging everywhere. Of course, you know the old Black-trackers had to attack them now. They fired on them and chased them, couldn't catch a lot of them. Some of them got shit, some of them didn't – most of them didn't anyhow. They went out to Walters (Plains) Lake way, way out there, because that's too open country. Back that way from Walter's Lake, it's all granite country, big rocks, they're living about in them. And attacked them again, hunted them from there – they went into G.W. Swamp. All along that swamp there were big camps: oh, they chased them there, shooting them, killed a lot of natives.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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In Gugu Badhun: People of the Valley of Lagoons, it is written: "After the establishment of the pastoral stations, any Gugu Badhun person who ventured into those areas risked being shot and killed."

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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Hello Hinchinbrook Island! Traditional lands of the Bandjin, Djiru, Girramay,Gulnay, Gugu Badhun, Nywaigi, Warrgamay and Warungnu peoples. Home to cros and all sorts of other critters. What a majestic place. We took 5 days to to the Thorsborne Trail. The first day we hiked with others who took the boat over with us. Lou hiked up to an impressive lookout which provided views to the bay we walked that day, Mt Bowen and the river system we entered the island in. We spent the night with a lovely girl from Adelaide called Gemma. We ate coconuts on the beach and had a fire.

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HPAIED work in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia

In November 2019 and again in February 2020, HPAIED research director Miriam Jorgensen was on the other side of the Pacific to discuss work of the Harvard Project and Native Nations Institute and to engage with Indigenous communities in nation building work.

From November 10-15, 2019, Miriam Jorgensen (along with HPAEID director Megan Hill, co-founder Stephen Cornell, and Honoring Nations Board of Governors member Karen Diver) participated in the third “Common Roots, Common Futures” symposium, which draws together Indigenous academics, policymakers, activists and allies from CANZUS nations (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States) engaged in Indigenous nation rebuilding. Earlier meetings had been held in Arizona (USA) and Queensland (Australia); this meeting spanned the communities of Auckland, Hamilton, Ngaruawahia, and Rotorua on the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. In her presentation at the symposium (pdf attached), Miriam Jorgensen shared the progress that tribes have made in exercising sovereignty over dispute resolution in their communities and some current challenges they face. Said Jorgensen, “One of the most difficult aspects of making a presentation like this is explaining that US-based tribes have their own courts and exercise broad civil and criminal jurisdictional authority. While tribes want more jurisdiction, and more exclusive jurisdiction, and have a desire to increasingly Indigenize the practices, they at least have recognized authority over a wide range of disputes. In Canada, Aotearoa and Australia, ‘dispute resolution’ often refers to a narrower range of activities because settler-colonial governments continue to monopolize many areas of jurisdiction and many law enforcement and justice functions.”

In mid-February 2020, Jorgensen spent several days in Townsville, Queensland, working with members of the Gugu Badhun Nation (People of the Valley of Lagoons – see the attached photos of their homelands). Jorgensen’s work, made possible through an Australian Research Council Discovery Project at the University of Technology Sydney, is to provide information and guidance, as requested by the Gugu Badhun, in their nation building journey. In Australia, Indigenous nations lack formal recognition, so this applied research project considers how self-identified Indigenous nations can reform themselves as political collectives with governing responsibilities even when the settler-state refuses to “see” them as a polities.

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Australian volcanic eruption may have lived on in Aboriginal stories

New research shows that a volcano in northeastern Australia last erupted around 7000 years ago – and stories passed down by the Gugu Badhun Aboriginal people suggest they were there to see it happen. http://dlvr.it/P0y67Q

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He remarked that the Gugu Badhun had already been given a "dressing" and believed that was enough to keep them in line.

I am rather sorry about those blacks; I think the time has now come to try & be friendly with them, we are strong enough now to defend ourselves & they would do a lot of work in washing . . . Certainly the best way will be to bring in some gins and boys & we shall soon make the others understand what we want. I am convinced that with our scrub & lava it is far more dangerous to keep them out than to let them in.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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It is thought that over a thousand Gugu Badhun were on country when the invaders came. The Scotts derided them:

I am sure they have not as keen senses as humans higher in the scale of humanity. "Like beasts, with lower pleasures; like beasts, with lower pains". They have not the slightest sense of gratitude, in any kind of way; far less than a dog, or horse. Of course they know where they are well-treated, and well-fed. I believe fish, even, learn that.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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To the east are the high hills of Hinchinbrook Island (Pouadai) and to the west – beyond miles of mangroves, scrub and swamp – is the Great Dividing Range.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr