5/26/2023 0 Comments Beyond contact band![]() ![]() Whilst surrounded at home by fascinating communities, people and places, my other work has previously prevented me from working through and writing something integrative using the material I have collected. For almost four decades my paid work, academic writing and research in the field of adult learning took place while living at Kingston in the current Hepburn Shire. I have lived most of my life in the footprint of Dja Dja Wurrung country. I have created a separate, fully revised version of that paper in May 2018 called ‘Reflections on a Lifetime in Dja Dja Wurrung Country’ posted in a separate blog. Some of my early ideas about developing an interest in Aboriginal connections to Country that sit on the front of this document I originally presented in a paper called ‘ The Great Dividing Trail and its associations with Djadjawurrung country’ at the ‘Black Gold’ Conference in Castlemaine in 23 October 2004. Others have been preserved in documents that have been lost or inaccessible for 180 years. Some of these stories come from my own experience. I invite comment and criticism about what is wrong, misleading, inappropriate or missing in this account via email: I figure it’s better to put this, my own story out now (last updated August 2022) for public comment and perusal rather than wait until it is complete and perfect. In this form, the notes can be progressively edited, added to or subtracted from and/or distilled with others or by others.Īs a person in my seventh decade I am always concerned when people accumulate incredibly valuable insights and knowledge over a lifetime … and unexpectedly ‘go under a bus’ without an opportunity to share it with others. They are derived from the huge pile of records I have collected and researched beyond the scope of my previous day job for decades. Rather, I see them as a base document that I needed to ‘get sorted in my head’ and into the public domain for critical comment’. They now go well beyond the work or interest areas of the Hepburn RAP and its implementation process. My notes are far too long to be an accessible summary. I understand that this is a work in progres. These notes were begun with that purpose in mind, but have grown with time. One important part of the RAP involves improving and disseminating knowledge and insights about our generally poorly known and understood shared local history. The original ‘ Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan, July 2018-July 2019‘ was launched in the Mt Franklin / Larni barramul crater with a ‘Welcome to Country’ and Tanderrum (‘Smoking Ceremony’) conducted by Elder Uncle Ricky Nelson on Thursday 26 July 2018. I have been motivated to write these notes about Aboriginal history in southern Dja Dja Wurrung country in the context of my involvement in the Hepburn Shire Reconciliation Plan (RAP) since 2018 as one member of the Community Reference Committee overseeing its creation and implementation. Part A: ‘Living in a Dja Dja Wurrung landscape’. Edward Parker & family grave, Franklinford Cemetery Please enjoy and learn as I have done by researching and writing this. I anticipate most people will just read the bits they are most interested in. The whole account is now over 32,000 words. ![]() Part E provides a short list of Useful References.Part D: ‘Sites in the landscape in 2019’.Part C explores a wide range of aspects of ‘ Early contact in the Upper Loddon Catchment ‘.Part B explores ‘The way the land shapes people and place’.Part A is something of an autoethnography, exploring and reflecting on my experiences of ‘Living in a Dja Dja Wurrung landscape’.Most of the latter part of the narrative is about what happened in the first three decades of contact between Dja Dja Wurrung people and the invading, mainly British ‘explorers’, squatters, ex-convicts and economic refugees. My intention in calling this page ‘Beyond Contact’ is to start make connections between ‘contact’ between Dja Dja Wurrung people in the landscape and the community within the Hepburn Shire that I now call home. The virtual tour included three sites: Merin Merin wetland Mount Greenock near Talbot and the Neereman Aboriginal Protectorate site on the Loddon River north of Baringhup.īarry Golding, last updated 22 August 2022 NOTE: The 2020 Reconciliation Week Tour was filmed and posted on YouTube in three videos because of the COVID-19 Pandemic. ‘Reading the Country at Contact’ NAIDOC Week 2019 Hepburn Shire self drive or bike ride tour: see Mount Cameron Gorge, Tullaroop Creek, Cotswold ![]()
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