Transgressions. critical Australian Indigenous histories

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1 Transgressions critical Australian Indigenous histories

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3 Transgressions critical Australian Indigenous histories Ingereth Macfarlane and Mark Hannah (editors)

4 Published by ANU E Press and Aboriginal History Incorporated Aboriginal History Monograph 16 National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Title: Transgressions [electronic resource] : critical Australian Indigenous histories / editors, Ingereth Macfarlane ; Mark Hannah. Publisher: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, ISBN: (pbk.) (online) Series: Aboriginal history monograph Notes: Bibliography. Subjects: Indigenous peoples Australia History. Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of History. Colonies in literature. Australia Colonization History. Australia Historiography. Other Authors: Macfarlane, Ingereth. Hannah, Mark. Dewey Number: 994 Aboriginal History is administered by an Editorial Board which is responsible for all unsigned material. Views and opinions expressed by the author are not necessarily shared by Board members. The Committee of Management and the Editorial Board Peter Read (Chair), Rob Paton (Treasurer/Public Officer), Ingereth Macfarlane (Secretary/ Managing Editor), Richard Baker, Gordon Briscoe, Ann Curthoys, Brian Egloff, Geoff Gray, Niel Gunson, Christine Hansen, Luise Hercus, David Johnston, Steven Kinnane, Harold Koch, Isabel McBryde, Ann McGrath, Frances Peters- Little, Kaye Price, Deborah Bird Rose, Peter Radoll, Tiffany Shellam Editors Ingereth Macfarlane and Mark Hannah Copy Editors Geoff Hunt and Bernadette Hince Contacting Aboriginal History All correspondence should be addressed to Aboriginal History, Box 2837 GPO Canberra, 2601, Australia. Sales and orders for journals and monographs, and journal subscriptions: T Boekel, sales@aboriginalhistory.org, tel or fax: ANU E Press All correspondence should be addressed to: ANU E Press, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia anuepress@anu.edu.au, Aboriginal History Inc. is a part of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University and gratefully acknowledges the support of the History Program, RSSS and the National Centre for Indigenous Studies, The Australian National University. Cover design by Teresa Prowse Cover photo: Clint Spencer. istockphoto, File Number: Printed by University Printing Services, ANU Apart for any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced by any process whatsoever without the written permission of the publisher. This edition 2007 ANU E Press and Aboriginal History Inc

5 Table of Contents Contributors Preface 1. François Péron and the Tasmanians: an unrequited romance, Shino Konishi 1 2. Moving Blackwards: Black Power and the Aboriginal Embassy, Kathy Lothian Criminal justice and transgression on northern Australian cattle stations, Thalia Anthony Dreaming the circle: indigeneity and the longing for belonging in White Australia, Jane Mulcock Resisting the captured image: how Gwoja Tjungurrayi, One Pound Jimmy, escaped the Stone Age, Jillian E Barnes On the romances of marriage, love and solitude: freedom and transgression in Cape York Peninsula in the early to mid twentieth century, Jinki Trevillian Hanging no good for blackfellow : looking into the life of Musquito, Naomi Parry Leadership: the quandary of Aboriginal societies in crises, , and 1966, Dennis Foley Sedentary topography: the impact of the Christian Mission Society s civilising agenda on the spatial structure of life in the Roper Region of northern Australia, Angelique Edmonds Sinful enough for Jesus: guilt and Christianisation at Mapoon, Queensland, Devin Bowles Corrupt desires and the wages of sin: Indigenous people, missionaries and male sexuality, , Jessie Mitchell 229 ix xiii v

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7 List of Illustrations 1.1. Fois. [i.e. Francois] Peron, nd, engraving by Lambert designed by Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, , Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Tasmania Face painting in the sewing circle Our headband ceremony Women dancing Water Dreaming Evening meal in ochre Definitive Commonwealth stamp Bamboro-Kain Photograph of Gwoja Tjungurrayi Indian Detour on The Chief, 1929 Grand Canyon Line, Santa Fe Railroad Indian-Detours 1920s Santa Fe Railroad/Harveycars Poster: Winter Tours to Central Australia The Aboriginal as seen by early explorers As primitive today as were the natives who slew Kennedy A Family of New South Wales 1792 by William Blake ( ) after sketch by Governor Phillip Gidley King ( ) Arunta Man, FJ Gillen Aborigines examining a motor car Go North to Adventure! By TAA Jetliner Aborigines Seeking Food and Knowledge Tjungurrayi s Ancestral Estate Pastoral Holdings re-territorialise Ancestral Country A mark of respect Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri with daughters, Gabriella and Michelle (left to right) The most publicised [A]boriginal in Australia Cropped image of One Pound Jimmy Uncropped photograph taken by Penhall and sent to MacGregor by Holmes Latest addition to MacGregor s stamp collection. 112 vii

8 Transgressions Hale River men Tjeria and Woritarinja, TGH Strehlow, Arltunga, One Pound Jimmy and Old Billy Mamaragan, the Thunder-man Roy Dunstan, photographer as he preferred to be seen Woritarinja and Tjungurrayi as never portrayed by Holmes Tjungurrayi on Dawn s masthead, Dawn magazine cover, 1952 and Dawn digitised DVD cover, Children lined up for breakfast at Roper River Mission, no date The new School at Roper Mission School children with work outside the school, no date Mission station at Roper River, no date Roper River mission showing gardens, no date Mission quarters at Roper River, no date. 200 viii