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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 OneTable of ContentsSection A Part 1: Introduction ................................................................................................................ 3Life Writing Chapter One ................................................................................................................... 3‘A Church worker like me, a white woman like me…’ ...................................................................... 3Section A Part 2: Journeys ................................................................................................................... 18Life Writing Chapter Two................................................................................................................. 18‘From the land where time begins to the timeless land.’ .................................................................. 18Section B: Identity ................................................................................................................................. 35Life Writing Chapter Five ................................................................................................................. 35‘She’s going to marry one…’: Jack and Rebecca’s Wedding ........................................................... 35Section C: Contact Zone ....................................................................................................................... 50Life Writing Chapter Nine ................................................................................................................ 50Jim ..................................................................................................................................................... 50Section D: Meetings .............................................................................................................................. 65Life Writing Chapter Eleven ............................................................................................................. 65Jim comes to Adnyamathanha Country ............................................................................................ 65Section E: Transculturations ................................................................................................................ 97Life Writing Chapter Seventeen ....................................................................................................... 97‘He didn’t want to leave us...’ ........................................................................................................... 97Section F: Belonging ........................................................................................................................... 142Life Writing Chapter Twenty .......................................................................................................... 142‘In the Sweet Bye and Bye...’ ......................................................................................................... 142Works Cited ........................................................................................................................................ 1842
Section A Part 1: IntroductionRefer to Book 2 Exegetical Essay OneLife Writing Chapter One‘A Church worker like me, a white woman like me…’Nepabunna, Adnyamathanha yata 1 , South Australia, during the decade of the Councilfor Aboriginal Reconciliation in Australia, 1991 – 2001.I can’t quite remember how or when I first came to Nepabunna, only I must have come freshin the throes of love. My new partner, and soon to be husband, was already a familiar visitorto this <strong>Flinders</strong> Ranges Aboriginal community, and I stood a little to the side of him, hangingback, waiting to learn how to say hello. My only Aboriginal word was ‘Murrumbeena’, thename of the Melbourne suburb in which I had grown up, although I had never given anythought to the people who might have taught some map-maker that word, much less thepeople who may have once called my home theirs. And still might.3
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Aborigines suggesting he be commiss
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His is somewhere aware that others
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she has said. With uncharacteristic
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The organ, and Iris playing it, are
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He led me towards the hillsAnd the
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There is less reportage of what Ann
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Section D: MeetingsRefer to Book 2
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out of a dream and he says “Arra
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the dark serge of her shirt, her ar
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Nepabunna, Flinders Ranges, 2001On
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…they had a big story about that.
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Jim Page is on his way to Copley. S
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hurting yourself. Instead I say we
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and that bogey monster!’ He shive
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‘Mrs Jack bloody Forbes, she call
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‘That’s the track you want. Hun
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eginning or end. The land has swall
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Becky hears him, though. Not words,
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‘You’ll see. I’ll tell the ot
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‘Fred, Fred McKenzie. You’d be
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Jean giggles. ‘I’ll be too fast
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The missionaries came to us with no
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Section E: TransculturationsRefer t
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‘This would provide work for seve
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Before leaving the lectern, Duguid
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‘Well, it appears that this is an
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lamp, but makes his way in the dimn
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‘Hey, yaka! Not me, I’m too old
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his faith was such that he kept his
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‘I’ve got a job on, Ted. Chief
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proceeds? Have you? Did you? Why? I
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eath away. 177 They said the eagle
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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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whose home this mission station has
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Photograph courtesy of Mary Woods.
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Nepabunna, December 20th 1935‘Mr
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tomorrow,’ and he places a set of
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….Dad talked about that Mr. Page
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their way back when they got to Pat
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‘Nyanga nyanga. Nyanga: oh we did
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a number of half-castes outside the
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Signed by MC Rosewall, and CH Downe
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Mr Wyld said that on one occasion t
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Photograph courtesy of Tracy Spence
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liquid on the side of the pot, and
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Clara nods, feeling the old woman
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Gerard’s UAM(SA) Inc. , and cease
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I presume you know that the applica
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eturns to her hut to mourn in her d
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indeed. It will take all of Samuels
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wanting to attract their attention.
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his plans for the future etc. I kno
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…I think the people felt that whe
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Forbes became the exile, living bey
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the church, ‘Where I can keep an
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was good enough to send up the more
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The wedding between Bessie and Fred
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Nepabunna General cemetery, with co
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But now the wood stove is as cold a
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Forbes’s lips are moving, and she
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Hawker, 2003Sylvia Brady told me ab
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at Copley for a quandong pie from t
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ealise, and imagine for a moment al
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together in Australia. You can’t
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Charlie JacksonMona JacksonRoger Jo
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College, Sydney Missionary Bible. "
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Lewis, Eileen. Transcript of an Int
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Adnyamathanha people of the Flinder
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15 correspondents, 'Correspondence
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56 “…[Becky] was probably livin
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91 Williams, A Song in the Desert.
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131 AP Elkin, ' Series 2 Box 9', Fi
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172 Page, Correspondence to the Chi
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213 Geary, M. (1950). Correspondenc
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