White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha communityTracy SpencerVolume One Creative Writing Component: Excerpted Chapters from Volume Three Appendix One1 ‘Yata’ = country2 The last Malkara (second stage of initiation) and Vardnapa ceremonies. The Adnyamathanha People:Aboriginal People of the <strong>Flinders</strong> Ranges. An Aboriginal studies course for secondary students. Aboriginalstudies 8-12 (Education Department of SA 1992), pp 258,2603 ‘Ngamarna’ meaning maternal uncle. Spelling from South Australian Department of South AustralianDepartment of Education, The Adnyamathanha People: Aboriginal People of the <strong>Flinders</strong> Ranges. AnAboriginal Studies Course for Secondary Students., Aboriginal Studies 8-12 (Education Department of SouthAustralia, 1992).4 Roma Wilton, Daisy Shannon, Gertie Johnson, Evelyn Coulthard, Frank Jackson, Conversation with Back toNepabunna Participants, (Nepabunna: 2003), vol.5 Rosie Brady, Transcript Rosy Brady 16701, ed. Tracy Spencer (Copley South Australia: 2001)6 Dolly Coulthard, Conversation with Dolly Coulthard 16701, ed. Tracy Spencer (Copley: 2001)7 Cliff Coulthard, Transcript of Interview 191001, ed. Tracy Spencer (Iga Warta: 2001)8 Gertie Johnson, Transcript of Interview 17701, ed. Tracy Spencer (Nepabunna: 2001)9 MC Rosewall, 'Coroners Report', South Australian State Records GRG 52/318/2 (1935), Adelaide.10 Aborigines Protection Board Secretary, Correspondence Regarding Application for Exemption by J T Forbes,ed. Aborigines Protection Board (State Records of South Australia, 1950), vol. GRG 52/1/1950/21b p81-89.) InJohn Forbes’ letter to Protector Penhall applying for Exemption from the Aborigines Act he states “I only go tothe mission about every two years. I do not mix much with my own people.” He and his family received theirExemption certificates in April 1950.11 Sylvia Brady, Conversation with Sylvia Brady, ed. Tracy Spencer (Hawker SA: 2003), vol.12 Various correspondents, 'Correspondence File Relating to Nepabunna Mission', UAM Archives, Melbourne.,1/8/5913 correspondents, 'Correspondence File Relating to Nepabunna Mission', 8/8/5914 correspondents, 'Correspondence File Relating to Nepabunna Mission', 11/8/59190
15 correspondents, 'Correspondence File Relating to Nepabunna Mission', 14/8/5916 Daisy Shannon, Transcript of Interview 1, ed. Tracy Spencer (Quorn SA: 2001)17 Shannon, Transcript of Interview l18 E Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness: A Classic Journey around and across Australia (NSW: Imprint,1940). p27119 Brian Leslie Castledine, Castledine: One Branch of the Family, (2006), p620 Information from a Certified Copy of an entry of Death from the General Register Office, England.21 Castledine, Castledine: One Branch of the Family, p722 Brian Castledine, pers comm.23 Information based on 1881 British Census data24 A McGrath, M Lake, P Grimshaw, & M. Quartly, Creating a Nation: 1788-1990 (Ringwood: McPhee GribblePublishers, 1994).25 Jacques Legrand, Chronicle of the Twentieth Century, ed. John Ross (Penguin, 1990).26 Legrand, Chronicle of the Twentieth Century.27 Daisy Shannon, Transcript of Interview 1, ed. Tracy Spencer (Quorn SA: 2001)28 Roma Wilton, Daisy Shannon, Gertie Johnson, Evelyn Coulthard, Frank Jackson, Conversation with Back toNepabunna Participants, (Nepabunna: 2003)29 Shannon, Transcript of Interview .30 Sylvia Brady, Conversation with Sylvia Brady, ed. Tracy Spencer (Hawker SA: 2003)31 Shannon, Transcript of Interview l32 Shannon, Transcript of Interview l33 Legrand, Chronicle of the Twentieth Century.34 Kit Historical Resource, Free Passage: Handbook to the Queensland Public Records., vol. 1 (Brisbane).35 Kit Historical Resource, Free Passage: Handbook to the Queensland Public Records., vol. 1 (Brisbane).36 Kerryn Goldsworthy, 'The Voyage South: Writing Immigration,' Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature andHistory in South Africa and Australia, ed. Liz Gunner and Sarah Nuttall and Kate Darian-Smith (London andNew York: Routledge, 1996) p55 Discusses the keeping of a Journal during the emigrants voyage as a ritualwhich promoted reflexivity, hence their authors wrote much self examination and in this way articulated theirtransformations.37 ShipsList, 'The Oruba', ShipsList-L-request@rootsweb.com.191
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Acknowledgement to John Oxley Libra
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Becky reads the small notice again:
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take on for her. From the deck, she
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Our cabin is getting up a play call
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horse, he looks past Edie, and Beck
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out of a dream and he says “Arra
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hurting yourself. Instead I say we
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proceeds? Have you? Did you? Why? I
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speak directly to him, she had know
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the fire with them, and their blast
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tomorrow,’ and he places a set of
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