Married to a ‘British Subject’
In the archives lie the stories of our past, stories that knowingly or unknowingly live in our present. For Aboriginal families, finding records can be a critical source of great healing, enhance and affirm identity, and provide families with new understandings of how things came to be. This essay a...
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crwiley:10.1111/ajph.12853 2024-06-02T08:06:41+00:00 Married to a ‘British Subject’ Walsh, Jacinta 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12853 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ajph.12853 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/ajph.12853 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Australian Journal of Politics & History volume 69, issue 1, page 84-109 ISSN 0004-9522 1467-8497 journal-article 2023 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12853 2024-05-03T10:59:20Z In the archives lie the stories of our past, stories that knowingly or unknowingly live in our present. For Aboriginal families, finding records can be a critical source of great healing, enhance and affirm identity, and provide families with new understandings of how things came to be. This essay affords agency to First Nations families looking to the archives for their stories, reading historical documents against the grain, and telling their stories their way. Through family memory, reflection, and archival research, it delivers the microhistory, rich in feeling, of one First Nations family, through the experiences of Mabel Ita Eatts (née Frederick), an ancestral matriarch, a Jaru woman, and the Great Grandmother of the author. Mabel was a member of the Stolen Generations and was later deeply influenced by exemption policy. Her story brings to life the struggles faced by Aboriginal ‘half‐caste’ women living in Broome and Derby in the 1920s and 1930s, explicitly highlighting not only the invasive oppression expressed through this policy but, more importantly, how Mabel actively negotiated the system. This paper is a powerful example of how one Aboriginal family writes back to the colonising archive. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Wiley Online Library Broome ENVELOPE(-61.807,-61.807,-73.600,-73.600) Mabel ENVELOPE(-44.683,-44.683,-60.667,-60.667) Australian Journal of Politics & History 69 1 84 109 |
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In the archives lie the stories of our past, stories that knowingly or unknowingly live in our present. For Aboriginal families, finding records can be a critical source of great healing, enhance and affirm identity, and provide families with new understandings of how things came to be. This essay affords agency to First Nations families looking to the archives for their stories, reading historical documents against the grain, and telling their stories their way. Through family memory, reflection, and archival research, it delivers the microhistory, rich in feeling, of one First Nations family, through the experiences of Mabel Ita Eatts (née Frederick), an ancestral matriarch, a Jaru woman, and the Great Grandmother of the author. Mabel was a member of the Stolen Generations and was later deeply influenced by exemption policy. Her story brings to life the struggles faced by Aboriginal ‘half‐caste’ women living in Broome and Derby in the 1920s and 1930s, explicitly highlighting not only the invasive oppression expressed through this policy but, more importantly, how Mabel actively negotiated the system. This paper is a powerful example of how one Aboriginal family writes back to the colonising archive. |
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