Moon and Rainbow: The Autobiography of an Aboriginal

Moon and Rainbow: The Autobiography of an Aboriginal
by Dick Roughsey
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Unknown Binding, 168 pages
Published January 1st 1971 by Reed
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Yari
Oct 27, 2012Yari rated it

it was amazing
I loved this book.

Partly out of interest for Cape York as we just finished a road trip to the tip of Australia and back, and mostly for the real insights into aboriginal culture back in the early 1900s to 1960s.

Totally shattered some of my ignorant ideas that aboriginals didn't own their land (they sure did, passed from father to son), they were forced to live in houses by white people (they adapted very well to the changing times, a house beat a humpy anytime,especially in the wet season. At one point they hoped for a cyclone to destroy their shacks so the government would build them new, proper houses), Christianity led them to lose their own culture (yes and no, the core concepts of heaven and hell are so similar they didn't mind using the English words for them and mixed with their own beliefs). I could go on...

Some parts are heavy going with long stories of aboriginal myths, if you persevere through these there is so much to gain from this book, lots of hunting, fighting, loving and more.

Essential reading if you are an Australian. (less)
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Record number of Australian, New Zealand troops taking part in joint military drill

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A record number of troops from Australia and New Zealand are taking part in the ongoing joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States, which aim to bolster the allied forces' ability to deal with emergency situations, a military official said Friday.

Seoul and Washington kicked off the annual Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercises for a weekslong run Monday in South Korea, mobilizing some 300,000 local troops, along with 17,000 U.S. forces.

The Key Resolve is a two-week command post-based exercise, while the Foal Eagle is an eight-week field training war game that includes the massive Ssangyong landing drill set for Saturday.

This year's exercises will be the biggest of their kind in size as they come on the heels of North Korea's surprise nuclear test in January and a long-range missile test last month.

The amphibious landing exercise involving Navy and Marine forces will also gather together some 130 Australian and 50 New Zealand troops in addition to personnel from the two allies, the military source said.

This marks the largest contingent of soldiers that Australia has sent to the landing exercise being staged in the eastern coastal port city of Pohang. For New Zealand, it is the first time it has dispatched troops to the drill.

Along with the U.S., the two other nations are among the 17 countries that are currently stationing military forces under the flag of the United Nations Command, which fought for South Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War.

The multinational troops remain in the country under the U.N. flag because the bloody conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.

"The participation of Australia and New Zealand shows the international community's determination to deter any reckless provocations by North Korea," the official said.

For the amphibious landing, the U.S. will send some 9,200 Marine and 3,000 Navy forces, while South Korea will dispatch a combined 4,500 Navy and Marine troops.

Nearly 30 South Korean and U.S. vessels will join the massive drill, including the amphibious assault vessels, USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and USS Boxer (LHD-4).

Switzerland and Sweden will send personnel as observers as they are members of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, which is tasked with making certain all forces abide by the armistice. (Yonhap)

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Why Warriors Lie Down And Die | Cultural Survival

Why Warriors Lie Down And Die | Cultural Survival









Why Warriors Lie Down And Die

By Richard I. Trudgen



Aboriginal Resource and Development

Services Inc., 2000 (Paperback)

ISBN: 0 646 39587 4



Author Richard Trudgen is a communications specialist who has spent more than 20 years consulting with, and working for, the Yolngu, the Aborigines of Australia's northeast Arnhem Land. His work on behalf of the Aboriginal Resource and Development Services (ARDS) has centered on establishing the conditions for dialogue between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal collectives on critical issues such as health service delivery. The resulting text is vast in scope and rich in detail and its major strengths are the author's familiarity with the people and the multitude of anecdotes and case studies he draws upon to bolster his argument. Alert to the major changes in community life since the early 1990s, Trudgen sees the problem of Aboriginal disempowerment as growing, not diminishing, in spite of the advent of federal policies promoting indigenous self-determination. The development agenda in Yolngu communities is still being established by non-traditional means, or worse, by outsiders. The resultant apathy and loss of self-esteem, and the rise in anti-social behavior, threaten havoc and are reaching alarming proportions.



While a majority of Trudgen's examples concern the failings of the Western health care system for Yolngu -- the denigration of traditional healing practices and the lack of cross-cultural education of non-Aboriginal practitioners -- he also covers other programs operating in the remote settlements to the east of Darwin in Australia's frontier zone, the Northern Territory. In the community of Galiwin'ku, for example, where Trudgen has consulted widely, there are 600 school-aged children. Fewer than 150 regularly attend school. If this were a non-Aboriginal community, these statistics would trigger outrage and a government inquiry. In Darwin or Alice Springs, for instance, if one non-Aboriginal child is away from school without reason for more than a day, a truancy officer is deployed to investigate. Non-Aboriginal law requires that all children receive an education, but then so too does Aboriginal law, and this is the crux of Trudgen's argument. Aborigines reject the manner in which their culture is currently ignored by the educational system. Parents have little motivation to send their children to an alien institution staffed by aliens (or Aborigines in denial) who are teaching a core curriculum with a transparently alien focus. In contrast with earlier days when there was a bilingual (and dialect) program in operation, there is now no real connection between the school and community and no real sense that the school is an essential tool in community planning. Most Aboriginal parents do not see the present institution as functioning to engender pride in young members of a mala (clan) or instill in them the ideas, values, and skills necessary to become useful members of the Yolngu community. In Arnhem Land the situation is dire: health is poor, unemployment rife and life short. What role should the school be playing? What do the Yolngu say?



The frontier mentality of non-Aboriginal territorians in the region under scrutiny is typical of Australia's outback: one knows one has arrived in a place like Darwin when public and private discourse turns explicitly to notions of race and privilege; When the average non-Aborigine is quick to denounce racism per se or to identify a racist in his midst, but at the same time plead "I am not a racist but we have to do something about this [racial epithet] problem." Implicit throughout Trudgen's book is a critique of system-wide discrimination on the part of non-Aborigines -- the discrimination that engenders misery in remote Aboriginal settlements. But Trudgen does not directly address non-Aboriginal complicity, saying merely that cross-cultural respect and recognition and mutual understandinis at an all-time low. He sets out, in considerable detail, to show how it has come to this, and what must happen from here on in terms of service delivery.



As I read this book, I think of Missing the Revolution, anthropologist Orin Starn's powerful critique of scholars of Peru's indigenous Inca. Starn described how the intelligencia were so engrossed in ethnographic minutiae and theory-building that none were able to predict the rise of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) -- and the ensuing terror and political mayhem. In a similar vein, I have asked myself how so many anthropologists could be working in Australia's north-east Arnhem Land -- writing for scholarly journals, publishing well-researched monographs -- and not see that something momentous (read disastrous) is unfolding in their field sites in Yolngu settlements? So forgive the amateurish prose and awkward ethnographic presentation. Do not be concerned about the lack of references to the social sciences. Trudgen's thesis on Aboriginal survival in the 21(st) century is too important for such minor grumblings. Why Warriors Lie Down and Die is essential reading. It clarifies the new direction in cross-cultural communication being called for by Aboriginal spokespeople across Arnhem Land and offers insights for those who want a greater understanding of the issues involved in achieving true reconciliation in Australia.



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Why Warriors Lie Down and Die: Towards an Understanding of Why the Aboriginal People of Arnhem Land Face the Greatest Crisis in Health and Education Since European Contact- Djambatj Mala: Richard Trudgen

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4.0 out of 5 starsWhy Warriors lay down and die....

By BushySV on March 17, 2013

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This is a scary read, between feeling like the indigenous people of Australia are facing the apocolypse versus they are the oldest living civilisation in the world and that we, as all australians including some in the aboriginal community, are NOT doing enough. Amazing read and should be a compulsory read for all politicians, teachers and CEO's

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An outstanding piece of work that describes in detail the clash, misunderstandings and overwhelming sadness when sophisticated stone age culture meets the culture of the post industrial age. Written in a narrative style that is clearly sensitive to being more respectful and unpatronising than earlier works on and about Australian Aboriginal society. A book that should be compulsory reading for all Australians.

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This is an insightful book that sensitively unpacks the difference in worldview between dominant (white) and aboriginal cultures. Trudgen is doing important work in this space and, to my mind, he is thoroughly decolonized.

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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat work!

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A really great book that introduces solutions and the questions into the problems of the Australian First Nations people. You can read my full review at http://janhawkinsau.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/why-warriors-lie-down-and-die/

Why Warriors take on Peterson

Why Warriors take on Peterson

‘Why Warriors’ take on Peterson
August 2011
A portable sawmill might be the last thing you’d expect a warrior to use, but that is exactly what the
Northern Territory Nhulunbuy Warriors are currently working with.
Richard Trudgen has been working with the Arnhem Land Aboriginals of Australia’s Northern Territory for
over 20 years now. His main focus has been in restoring the Yolngu
Community’s ability to cope and succeed alongside the ‘western’ world. For
decades the indigenous peoples of Australia have been terrorised and
victimised, mainly because they were mis-understood by western peoples.
Richard Trudgen has written a book on the history and culture of the
Arnhem Land peoples, titled ‘Why Warriors Lie Down and Die’. Peterson
CEO Kerris Browne says “The book is extremely enlightening, and at times
very, very sad. I had no idea the Yolngu Aboriginals had been so blatantly
massacred, and I am amazed they have still managed to survive. Richard has
done a great job with the book, and an even greater job helping their culture
and plight to be understood.”
Richard’s vision is to empower Indigenous Australians through private clan
based business development. Many earlier Government schemes have failed
because the Aboriginal culture was not fully understood, and ‘western’
projects were just not suited to their way of living. Richard explains
“Mining town influences draw the indigenous peoples away from their culture with false opportunities. At
the moment, many family businesses are involved in drug running or welfare. We’ve got to help them set up
community businesses that can actually work for them, so they can move away from their dependency on
welfare.” So Richard first began looking at portable sawmills several years ago, identifying that timber
harvesting and woodworking could be a sustainable and workable community project. Richard has looked at
many types of portable sawmills on the market. He says “I’ve used both a Lucas and a Westford mill, and I
needed something easier. My research on the web kept coming back to Peterson, as it’s specifications
seemed to match what I was looking for”. Richard first contacted Peterson in 2005. However it took much
longer than he expected to obtain government funding for the project. In early 2011, a frustrated Richard
took the bull by the horns and decided to invest in the project himself.

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About Why Warriors - Why Warriors

About Why Warriors

WE ARE COMMITTED TO POSITIVE, REAL CHANGE IN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES LED BY LOCAL ABORIGINAL PEOPLE

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WHAT WE DO

We nurture locally driven projects in Aboriginal communities across Northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, providing support for Indigenous visionaries, solutions forHealth and lifestyle change, and region wide education.

We provide a variety of training tools for people wanting to know how to work effectively with Indigenous or diverse communities. Learn more from our Bridging The Gap training, Richard Trudgen’s book “Why Warriors Lie Down And Die”, or our free learning portal.

WHO WE ARE

We are a committed group of Balanda (mainstream) and Yolngu (East Arnhem Land Aboriginal) individuals who believe in making a difference. We partner together to bring locally controlled change, as well as opportunities for cultures to understand each other.

Why Warriors co-founder Richard Trudgen wrote the seminal book “Why Warriors Lie Down And Die”, a landmark analysis of the cross-cultural differences and challenges on the interface between mainstream and remote Indigenous Australia. It is utilised by Universities and personnel working with Indigenous group across Australia and Internationally.

LOCATION

Our operations are based at Galiwink’u on Elcho Island and in Gove (Nhulunbuy), both in the Northern Territory. We also deliver training for individuals, organisations, and companies Australia wide. 

USING EXPERIENCE TO CREATE SOLUTIONS

At Why Warriors we are committed to teaching and training both Aboriginal and mainstream people, so that we can all move beyond the causes of cross-cultural confusion. Our long history of the ground experience in the same region is now being used as a living case study to explore and teach the skills needed for multi-cultural and minority group engagement and diversity orientated development, to avoid the mistakes of our past.

We create solutions for all Australian’s to strengthen and support remote Aboriginal people to change their own lives and communities. This, we believe, is real reconciliation, enabling mutual understanding and working together.  Find out how to get involved.

Did you know we have:

• 43 years of history working with Aboriginal people
• Refined community development and cross-cultural engagement models built on that history
• Experience applying and improving that knowledge through long term locally driven projects
• A passion for sharing our knowledge and experience have been offeringseminars and training since 1995
• Free training for you at our Learning portal