Indigenous Sovereignty Demands

[willedoo]

That anthropologist said he'd witnessed Pintubi elders levitating. I don't know about about that one; I think they might have given him too much pituri.

[old man emu]

40 minutes ago, willedoo said:

He had a theory of different waves of migration into the country

It's a theory that cannot be proved by independent findings, but I think that it is more true than not. To me it is logical that the earliest arrivals would have been moved on by the later ones, just like a crowd leaving a football arena.

 

Maybe using DNA a comparison could be made between Aborigines going from north to south, sampling from reasonably pour groups, to see if there are indicators of genetic changes. These DNA-wallahs seem to be able to give an estimate of when a genetic change occured, so you could see if there was a pattern of colonisation spreading radially from a northern entry point.

 

Another method is to study the vocabulary of each language to look for the roots of common words, just has been done in examining the Indo-European languages.

 

 

[onetrack]

A DNA examination of the Aboriginals would more than likely find they're descended from the Indians and the Javanese. Many of the Northern Aboriginals possess skulls that are very Javanese in shape.

A family friend is John McGuire, the Aboriginal footballer and cricketer. I remember how furious he got, when he was regularly mis-identified by sport commentators, as one of the Indian cricketers!

[Bruce Tuncks]

I once was told that real black-belt hari-krishnas can levitate. Alas, they cannot do it in the prescence of unbelievers, on account of bad vibrations or something like that.

[spacesailor]

I can levitate. 

But only while sleeping. 

My partner often says " I raise the blankets " . LoL

spacesailor

 

[pmccarthy]

I have a part of my body that I can raise by thought alone,

[red750]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/afl/article-13881417/Brownlow-Medal-Welcome-Country.html?ito=social-facebook

[old man emu]

Take a good look at that "Elder". In his face I can see generations of Irish genetics. The thin face and the long thin nose are pretty typical of the Irish. I have a strong Irish (Celtic) genetic makeup, with a touch of Cornish, which is also Celtic. I reckon that "Elder" is an octoroon Aboriginal.

 

Octoroon. A race based term used to classify Indigenous people of mixed descent. According to this logic, an 'octoroon' has seven white great-grandparents out of eight.

[red750]

Not related to this chap, but ancestry in general, many people have found they have unknown ancestors of various races. The TV ancestry research program Who Do You Think You Are has turned up a few. Ray Martin has aboriginal ancestry, Cathy Freeman has Chinese ancestry.

[Bruce Tuncks]

My impression is that aboriginals are related to the australopithicines, the lot that preceded modern homo sapiens.

their facial features and their culture both reflect this.

[red750]

At least today's Welcome To Country at the GF didn't include a smoking ceremony.

[onetrack]

Did everyone pay homage to the Aboriginal football players that started the game, 40,000 years ago?

[old man emu]

I heard that the bloke who was instrumental in creating the game grew up on the land. The local Aborigines played a kick and chase game using a "ball" made from animal pelts. The thing was that the Aborigines' game had no scoring system. They just enjoyed the activity. The bloke adopted the kick and chase pat and added a scoring system to make such an activity acceptable to the European culture wich requires a victor.

[facthunter]

Not many Aborigines Use a Victa.  Nev

[red750]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Not many Aborigines Use a Victa

[facthunter]

It's a fact.  Nev

[Bruce Tuncks]

They didn't use a victa where I fixed the house in  Alice Springs. Nor did they have a garden hose which would have been useful. So they sat on the fence and watched the fire till the brigade came out.

They subsequently left the ( no longer liveable ) house, as did the family which lived opposite. We had some dealings with the opposite lot, mainly by feeding the kids  when the  men had spent the social security money on grog. We also stopped using the clothes-line when we went out on account of how the women would take clothes they liked from the line.

None of this really annoyed me, but the smouldering fire in their  back-yard did. Aborigines turned  out to be exempt from "fire bans" of all sorts. ( They had to call the smouldering log a "comfort fire" ).

If you rang the cops, you would be asked if the perps could be abos. If you answered "yes" then you were told that no cops would come, and you should see a solicitor one day.

[facthunter]

I believe it's ALL getting worse. Been to Tennant Creek lately?  Nev

[Bruce Tuncks]

Nope nev, I haven't been back to Alice Springs lately either. I was told at Coober Pedy some years ago that the ban on grog sales did a lot of good. I found out about this after being refused to buy wine at the pub take-away. The guy said how all the cash-registers in the town were connected together so competition didn't work so good.

The abos hanging around the grog shop were a lot fewer and cleaner than before...  I wonder if the woke lot have stopped the whole thing , I would expect them to try.

[nomadpete]

Tenant Ck is one of those places where you have to prepay for fuel before tge pump will dispense. Daytime in tourist season is fairly safe but it's  not a place I would live in, no matter how good the pay was.

In Alice, I  just didn't feel safe.

[old man emu]

On 19/10/2024 at 1:12 PM, nomadpete said:

you have to prepay for fuel before tge pump will dispense

How does that work if you don't know exactly how much you have to put in to fill up? Do you estimate how many litres you want, do a quick calculation of the cost of that amount and pay that much? What if you have overestimated how much you need. Do you go back in for a refund? And what if you underestimate? 

[facthunter]

I think they would repay the excess.. It's not so difficult. It's only to counter those who drive off without paying.   Nev

[old man emu]

1 minute ago, facthunter said:

It's not so difficult.

But a pain in the arse for honest people. 

[spacesailor]

I have noticed , the pumps I have used were all card

Prepay . no cash .which is another pain I A .

spacesailor

[facthunter]

That  is always the case when enough don't do the right thing.   . Same when you're checked before boarding a plane, or the rigamarole you go through to buy a bottle of wine in some parts of the NT. Nev