Hope to see you at 11am in Mount Barker on the 27th of NOVEMBER when the Peramangk Elders meet on CENTRAL Peramangk country , for the FIRST " massed gathering" of the clans in over 160 years
kangarooistan
November 2010 at 11am
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Sure Hope to see you at 11am in Mount Barker on the 27th of NOVEMBER
when the Peramangk Elders meet on CENTRAL Peramangk country , for the
FIRST " massed gathering" of the clans in over 160 years when about
2000 Peramangk were " dispersed " by armed troopers , and bolted from
the district to HIDE with then THEN join with , neighboring Clans up
North .
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A MASSED Gathering of the Peramangk Peoples , their descendants and
friends , has been set to coincide with a MASSED Picnic of the
Adelaide HILLs Refugees Supporters Groups ANNUAL Picnic in the PARK,
being held on Saturday 27th NOVEMBER in the same park ,.
THIS event is NOT a PERAMANGK Group ,
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=172549246089114#!/event.php?eid=127019760688728
, but the Peramangk have confirmed several Elders Will attend on the
day with firm plans to reestablish the long lost Peramangk Peoples
tradition of MASSED "late spring meetings " at THIS site
http://picasaweb.google.com/kangarooistan9/20101104#on this day every
year IF it goes well this year .
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A REAL great story is unfolding in this IF you wish to cover it , I
am very very happy to help SBS out with details .
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I am happy to give my time free IF you can send a reporter with audio
and camera and a CAR , it could take several Hours to drive from the
City to and around the central PERAMANGK territory to grab the video
footage and I can provide a running commentary and possibly a pic or
two , Im very old and very ugly too so its no point using me as a
interviewee , its OK to use me as background photo at distance , I
KNOW all the Peramangk Country and its history very well , A few hours
of work and it could be made into a POWERFUL newsworthy story ,.
IF it can get to air BEFORE the 27th of November at 11am Ill bend
over backwards , .
The Peramangk themselves are Refugees , and have been planning a
move BACK into their territory for YEARS to celebrate THEIR ancient
MASSED Spring Meetings
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In 1889 a member of the South Australian Parliament, V.L. Solomon,
remarked publicly: "[Police] gave them a lesson - 'dispersed them' I
think is the term used in official reports - and the natives have
given very little trouble since that day." In 1885 a police inspector,
Paul Foelsche, said out loud what pastoralists had well known for
years: "The system 'dispersing the natives' simply means shooting
them." Five years earlier The Queenslander wrote in an editorial: "The
word has been adopted into bush slang as a convenient euphemism for
wholesale slaughter."
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In 1891 Willshire became so brazen he was arrested and tried for
murder.
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A Port Augusta jury acquitted him, "despite the strong evidence
against him and no witnesses being called by the defence".
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He was transferred to the Northern Territory's remote Victoria River
district under Police Inspector Foelsche in 1893, "where, buoyed by
his acquittal for murder and working closely with station managers,
with whom he formed friendships, he shot a great many more Aboriginal
people".
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Willshire was recalled to South Australia two years later.
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In 1898 he resigned from the police force and fittingly took a job as
night watchman at the Adelaide abattoirs.
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ATTEND PERAMANGK ANNUAL GATHERING OF THE CLANS see site pics here
http://picasaweb.google.com/kangarooistan9/20101104#
http://www.facebook.com/family/Kangarooistan/1#!/event.php?eid=127019760688728
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Time
27 November · 11:00 - 15:00
Location Central Mount Barker Park ~ Between Lake and Farmers Market
Created by:
Inverbrackie Refugee Support Group, Oldman Kangarooistan
More info
Last Saturday in NOVEMBER for the Combined Refugee Support Group's BYO
Picnic to show support;
We WELCOME refugees in the Adelaide Hills and ALWAYS have.
The PERAMANGK PEOPLES HAVE ALREADY BOOKED THEIR SITE see site pics in
THIS link
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127019760688728&num_event_invites=0
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NO appointment needed if you do or can " confirm " your intention to
attend , it will HELP to gauge numbers and interest for FUTURE
years , on the SAME date time and place EVERY YEAR ,.
"from little things BIG things grow" , PLEASE attend /or JOIN and
then you can watch it GROW stronger EVERY year .
PLEASE also Consider joining the Face Book INVERBRACKIE Refugees
support Group HERE
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THEY are being attacked by right wingers who are IMHO opposed to non
whites in their town , a POV that needs to be challenged GENTLY ,
until they see , brown / black is NOT to be feared , they live in a
very very "white " town , possibly "one of the whitest" in the
country ,after a century of ethnic cleansing the Hill as changing
rapidly and they need TIME to come into the new century and they will
in time , we need to give them TIME , but a show of "support for
refugees" will help all non whites including the tiny remnant
Peramangk community " dispersed " 150 years ago into the SA MID
North , and far northern tribes and clans , 100 plus years ago. but
now starting to trickle back to visit their ancestors homelands and
their special sites
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http://hahndorf.wikispot.org/Peramangk
Contrary to expectation, there are few records of conflict between the
Peramangk and the Lutherans. They are recorded as showing the settlers
how to catch possums and where to find edible roots and leaves but
their kindness did not prevent loss of their hunting grounds.
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In 1844, there is recorded a "battle" ???/= meeting between the
Permanangk people of the hills and the Moop-pol-tha-wong from the
Murray and Encounter Bay regions. This involved some 2000 Peramangk
men . Intervention by the Mill owner and two other men by attempting
to reason with the aboriginal leaders failed, and the episode was only
ended when mounted troupers with drawn swords arrived and dispersed
them.
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THE last recorded by whites of a mass gathering of PERAMANGK peoples
was in 1844 , since then the story is well known by all Aboriginal
Peoples , being forced further and further north as settlement
encroached their homelands .
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Peramangk lost most of their ancestral lands for ever and they
joined the northern Aboriginal peoples {as refugees??} , hence their/
my concern for the newest refugees , Peramangk peoples KNOW how they
feel , to be alone in stange country .
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Several locals can trace their family history back to Peramangk
Peoples but MOST went and stayed in the MID and FAR northern areas of
SA long ago , and are often unaware of their lost family and friends
now scatted across a vast area , i KNOW of hundreds that live " up
north " that ARE related but have NEVER ever met because of GREAT
distance cost of travel and the passing of time , FB has changed ALL
that in a few short years , who KNOWS how fast we can reconnect the
Peramangk Peoples friends and long lost family members.
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COME ON DOWN , all are welcome
We NEED to re establish the long long tradition of a yearly MASSED
gathering of the Peramangk clans .
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127019760688728&num_event_invites=0
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Peramangk Held ANNUAL MASSED gatherings in late spring LIKE we now
call it a family picnic .
Many Families still hold gatherings that have been running quietly in
small isolated family groups for decades , BUT a MASS gathering on the
Ancestral Country is now very POSSIBLE , the local "Mount Barker
Council" , HAS kept the original meeting site in VERY good order , it
is WAITING for US , and the time is RIGHT now IMHO , the local people
are NOT racists , they will welcome Peramangk IMHO , I have examined
the site and tested the reaction of locals , the re is no reason to
not return to " MASS gathering of the clans " friends and family ,
at meetings in PUBLIC areas at the end of SPRING / beginning of
summer , as was the PERAMANGK tradition for a very very long time
at THIS site http://picasaweb.google.com/kangarooistan9/20101104#
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