Daisy Bates memorial at Ooldea SA

This is amazing, you can read about her online... ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bates/daisy/passing/ Just listening to ABC radio National, and there is now an opera written about Daisy. 29-09-12 She met and married Breaker Morant in Qld in 1880s, this laste two weeks, before she headed off be a journalist in SA and a researcher of Aboriginal languages and culture for the WA Government. She had two other husbands, a couple at a time, for a while, before working at Ceduna then up here on the Trans Line at Ooldea. While in WA, she worked near the Opthalmia Ranges, not an auspicious sounding place in those days! She considered herself an Anthropologist, and document the languages and relationships of Aboriginal Society, which she documented extensively in manuscripts and in communications with noted Anthropolgists of her day! See Wikipedia for further details en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bates_(Australia) 3.My Natives & I. Daisy Bates. This book also incorporates The Passing of The Aborigines. In scientific circles, Daisy Bates was dismissed as a crank. However, anthropologists, historians and all those interested in Aboriginal Australia have begun to realise that her unique knowledge of Aboriginal society cannot be lightly dismissed. In this edition her original 1936 newspaper series, 'My Natives and I' has been integrated with the 1938 book, restoring the omissions and indicating the additions. First Published in 1938, this edition 2004 $35.00 Add to Cart westprint.com.au/my-natives-and-i.html Another famous Aboriginal from this period. adb.anu.edu.au/biography/grant-douglas-6454 See a poem from.. www.flickr.com/photos/man_is_like_unto_a_tree/ PRETENSE A GLOBAL STOCK EXCHANGE... - This land sang a different song Before invaders hands stole it away Original custodians Classified demonised savages Championed genocide beyond all bets Continuous generations Standing at their posts Protecting, nurturing the sacred Land Is not publicly known Guessing at by the stealers Still today pretending they actually know AND CARE - Never once asking the keepers Never once lowering their noses Listening from grassroots wisdom's, truths Handed down orally and dressed in story, parable Ancient living Stone Age spirits still standing Alongside peoples who had ward continuously Attained to most advanced civilization status Unique opportunities Offering windows of hope through time Potential to have taken the highest from both Inhabitant and invader hands Could have taken another path Forging marriages Gestalt past all violence Exchanged oppression for unity Banner of equality could have been raised Instead positive possibilities thrust into chains Vigilantly styled invaders revenge Imprisoned for breaking unknown laws Colonisers still unaware, unconcerned Of ancient laws needed to survive in this sacred land - Lovingly still awaiting souls to care Patient ones to arise from below hatred hearts Pulling asunder veils anger drenched Smashing belief they had imagined To survive this hell hole of a land - They fight a war still being played out today Disguised now as corporations Dressed in camouflage Still the colonisers just going by another name Social issues appeared to improve Smoking mirrors, media spin Doctoring Only dressed in sweeter words With highly promoted vain imaginings Selling belief’s if you play along You two just might win - You two can reap from the plunder masked Within shareholders gowns and dinner hats Dripping in blood of generational poverty Sipping from crystal goblets raped from sacred sites Wine sipped from bulldozed ancient forest earths Watered from vanishing non-renewable aquifers University graduates paid an average Man’s year’s wages for one survey Informing all non-university graduates Those extinct plus the next in line Lists thousands close to the edge Habitat depletion Destruction of their homes, food supplies Abundantly clear if you just take a look around Oppression dressed as knowledge Justification they are, have, do all they can Furthered veiled within deeper blame Cloaked in “It was your vote that caused it anyway.” Flocks of women dumping their charges into arms of the state While bemoaning their harrowing plights Far too busy still fighting a disguised family nuclear war Unable to stop Take focus, see the fantasies they swallow daily Choking entire globe Words saying one thing Actions juxtaposed Pretense a global stock exchange.