After being quite frankly thrilled by Bill Gammage's book The Biggest Estate on Earth - Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu of some years back gave chapter and verse particulars of the civilisation of Indigenous or First Nations Australia. Author and historian Bruce Pascoe says he believes attempts to discredit his award-winning book Dark Emu are at the heart of allegations he is not Aboriginal. This revised/up-dated edition is timely - given the savage dismissal by our current PM Turnbull of the Uluru Statement from the Heart! Goodreads. “colonial settlers ignored the Aboriginal method, and that contemporary Australians still suffer from the result.

He also quotes from Mitchell, Sturt, and Dawson very selectively, leaving out all the parts that contradict his argument. For example Bruce puts a photo of a Meriam Island House (Torres Strait) in his section on Arnhem Land 'dome houses'. It's good that Bruce draws attention to the fact that Aboriginal people managed the land (not farmed) in a sustainable manner, and cared for the environment as opposed to the capitalist system which destroys the environment. For example Bruce puts a photo of a Meriam Island House (Torres Strait) in hiThe book is persuasive rather than informative, and at times inaccurate.

Read these primary sources and you get a different picture to the one Bruce paints. Read it.The diaries and journals of early Australian explorers and settlers tell a different story of Aboriginal settlement than the later historians and especially contemporary conservatives and politicians. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books supporDark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial Aboriginal Australians.

He also quotes from Mitchell, Sturt, and Dawson very selectively, leaving out all the parts that contradict his argument. Shame!” she tweeted.She has also tweeted that there are at least two published books disputing Professor Pascoe’s historical evidence.“This creates devastating harm and Pascoe is benefiting financially.”Ms Cashman told Sky News she made the complaint after being contacted by Aboriginal people in NSW and Victoria.“My motivation is from my people, those people who are voiceless or who don’t have access to a voice and aren’t heard, Ms Cashman said.Professor Marcia Langton, the foundation chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, rejected questions about Professor Pascoe’s Aboriginality and says all the references in “I don't agree with running a campaign against an individual like this, I think this is unconscionable behaviour and I think most Aboriginal people would agree, not something that another Aboriginal people would do knowing what our history has been,” she told National Indigenous Television.“We all know that it is very difficult for some Aboriginal people to prove they are Aboriginal because of lack of records, because of members of the family lying, because of shame about having Aboriginal ancestry, because of the hatred of Aboriginal people.”She said as far as she was concerned the issue of Professor Pascoe’s Aboriginality was “settled”.Professor Pascoe has acknowledged his links are distant, writing in his latest essay collection “I am sure a lot of non-Aboriginal people think that pale-skinned Aboriginal people shouldn’t identify, especially when it goes back to great grandmothers and great grandfathers and I understand that,” Professor Pascoe told “I think Australians have the right to know that Aboriginal people who claim to be Aboriginal are actually Aboriginal but I think that conversation needs to be a decent conversation.”“If they decided you had to have a percentage of blood quantum to be declared an Aborigine or go on some sort of register (and) I wasn’t on it, my life wouldn't change at all because I am so deeply involved in the community and the community expect me to be involved,” he said.Professor Pascoe said he had been “very moved” by the“Not just Ken Wyatt but local Aboriginal man Ossie Cruse came out and said the same thing and my cultural leader, Uncle Max Harrison, said the same thing.”“So many Aboriginal men and women have come out and supported me, people who know my family history and have helped me in the past identify lines in our Aboriginal family, those people have come out and reaffirmed what they told me 20 years ago.”He said the controversy started with a website called “I am not saying Aboriginal people were like white farmers, what I am saying is they were engaged in a form of food production which is unlike hunting and gathering.

Pascoe's innovative approach combines archaeological evidence from contemporary fieldwork with meticulously researched archival accounts of the earliest white colonisers, whose observations of the local peoples they encountered reveal much more now than they did to 18th- and 19th-century white society.A rather important, worthwhile read for all Australians.

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