[Oe List ...] Massacre at Oombulgurri

[isobeljimbish at optusnet.com.au]

Thank you Marilyn. 
The Indigenous community wrote a Statement from the Heart,  June 2018-  or was it 2017, please correct me. 
We wish their longings could be realised. Their call is for a Treaty. 
I personally hang my head shamefully. There are many colleagues here who work smarter and not harder to right historic wrongs. 
We appreciate your care. We have learnt much from the First Peoples of 🇨🇦 
In peace and love,
Isobel 

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> On 9 Mar 2019, at 8:16 am, Mari Crocker via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> 
> Lynda et al,
> 
> I remember the courage and vision the “returning remnant” of Oombugurri — men, women and children — displayed during the HDP Consult in 1975 (our first in the Band of 24).  Elder Robert Roberts was a tower of strength, leadership and a repository of the ancient ways.  Joe and others were with him when one team went "sussing out" cattle land boundaries. At one point Robert advised the consultants to "stay back" while he advanced through the brush and spoke quietly in his native language to the King Brown snakes, assuring them that he was with friends.  The team proceeded with no problems.  Earlier a King Brown had slitheringly entered the plenary tent, spooking all the consultants, even JWM who was leading the session.  Almost immediately a young man picked up a stone and killed the snake with one powerful and accurate blow.  He then stepped back and nodded to Robert Roberts who slowly proceeded to scoop up the carcass on a forked stick and removed it from the meeting space.
> 
> I am so appreciative of the efforts so many of our Aussie colleagues have made to make amends for the brutal history of genocide.  Would that we could do the same as authentically and intentionally.
> 
> Marilyn
> 
>> On Mar 8, 2019, at 10:12 AM, Lynda C via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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>> When I first opened up this e-mail this morning on my phone, there was an ad that ran periodically through the article.  It was from Publix Grocery Store, telling of over $4.4 million collected for Food for All, the organization founded by Linda and Milan Hamilton.  
>> When I went to the computer to show John.  I couldn't find the ad, but it was a dark blue square with white writing.  I recall from reading Milan's blog about those endeavors that Georgiana McBurney was on their Food for All board.  I believe there were several other ICA Colleagues who helped in that endeavor, but I do not recall the names.  
>> 
>> That was the good news in the midst of the tragedies reported in that article.  There is no mention of the work that we attempted to do in this article.  The political cartoon with people saying they didn't know about the tragedies, ends with "Now you do know.  What are you going to do?"  
>> 
>> This is so much similar history in our country re: Native Americans and African Americans.  It poses the same question that our PCUSA Social Justice committee is struggling with, and making baby steps with the formation of a Unity in Community group and in a joint study of "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" with our Beloved Community Book Study with our sister African American Presbyterian Church right across the railroad tracks from our Davidson College Presbyterian Church.  
>> 
>> Much remains to be done,   Lynda     
>> 
>> On 3/7/19, 10:24 PM, "OE on behalf of Richard and Maria Maguire via OE" <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net on behalf of oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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>>   We were painfully moved to see this article on Oombulgurri's history 
>>   today.  This sort of massacre was all to common in Australia in the 
>>   past, but we did not know that Oombulgurri had also been affected.  I'm 
>>   not even sure that our colleagues who were there in the 70's knew about 
>>   it, at least no one ever mentioned it to us.
>> 
>>   All the more to everyone's credit for how much people there were able to 
>>   accomplish.
>> 
>>   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/08/a-very-tragic-history-how-the-trauma-of-a-1926-massacre-echoes-through-the-years?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlBVVMtMTkwMzA4&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayAUS&CMP=GTAU_email
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>>   Best wishes
>> 
>>   Richard and Maria
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