The episode is a discussion regarding cultural appropriation, Identity Theft, and Aboriginal social issues.
It is a discussion represented by the Director of Tribal Fires Mr. Robert Eggington and the retired Anthropologist of the University of Western Australia Berndt Museum Professor John Stanton.
This episode is important to understand how our culture and spirituality has been nullified and politically neutralized by Government policies and determined how non-Aboriginal people have capitalized on all that was once sacred!
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‘’May our Camp Fires Burn Forever’’
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This podcast is a story about traveling to Rio De Janeiro in 1988 to represent our people as a member of the National body S.N.A.I.I.C IN Brazil.
It’s a three-part story about losing and then finding my didgeridoo, and then being invited after retrieving the object to meet with the great Train Robber Ronald Biggs who was hiding out in Brazil.
Life on the streets in Rio De Janeiro and experiences as well as attending the international conference and closing it in a time with the Didgeridoo when it was a virtually unheard sound around the world.
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Warning this episode has a high content of racial vilification.
During the early 1990’s I was appointed as the spokesperson for the newly developed Aboriginal Visitors scheme.
This scheme was one of the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody.
The story tells of an incident whilst I was visiting a young Aboriginal man in the East Perth Lockup, I was racially vilified and threatened by a Detective Sgt of the Western Australian Vice Squad whilst carrying out my duties. The story also recapture’s the police harassment on my family during the early years of the political activism of Dumbartung.
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This episode of Tribal Fires is when Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash visited the Dumbartung Aboriginal corporation in 1995.
This story is extremely important as much was shared during these visits and both these artists are respected worldwide as creators that voiced the message of a generation.
It was a great privilege to have both these singer songwriters at Dumbartung knowing what they heard and experienced would have been discussed by them with many other empowered and respected peoples in the world in which they associate and move in !
The story has many turns and twists just like Rock and Roll should.
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During 1995 the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation coordinated a world-wide campaign against an American woman ‘’New Age Author’’ named Marlo Morgan who wrote and published a book titled ‘’Mutant Message Downunder’’.
This campaign was an extensive and effective process that resulted in Dumbartung unifying the Aboriginal voice across Australia and from a well-planned strategy selected six well respected Aboriginal law people both male and female to travel to the United States of America to debunk the book as a new age fantasy of untruths and cultural absurdities.
The Elders participated in a series of media conferences and public venues enticing people that this book was a fabrication of the true Aboriginal cultural and spiritual values and lore!
The campaign ended in a massive walk in Tokyo Japan by Robert Eggington the Director of Dumbartung and Paul Sampi a well-respected law man of the Bardi people from One Arm Point.
Eventually a book was published written by Dr John Eustace from the Acadia university in Canada titled ‘’Old Battle-New Age’’ .
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This episode is about the early life of Robert Eggington the Director of the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation. It tells of the story of his younger years , the work he came to do in the coalface of the Perth Aboriginal community, and the interview for the position at Dumbartung and concludes with the story of how he founded and created the most massive Aboriginal cultural gatherings in Perth in Aboriginal living memory.
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Trans Racial Identity Change, Cultural Appropriation
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Meeting with the Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs in Brazil whilst attending and presenting at an International Child Care and Infant Mortality Conference in Brazil - 1988
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A Death Threat in the East Perth Lockup
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Dumbartung meets with the great Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
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Marlo Morgan campaign the “Mutant Message Affair”
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The Kyana Aboriginal Gatherings Perth WA 1991 to 1993
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