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Collaboration, Collision, and (Re)Conciliation: Indigenous Participation in Australia’s Maritime Industry—A Case Study from Point Pearce/Burgiyana, South Australia

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This chapter investigates maritime cultural landscapes of Point Pearce Mission/Burgiyana, in the Yorke Peninsula/Guuranda region of South Australia . Burgiyana is home to the Narungga peoples. This research investigates the participation of Aboriginal peoples in Australia’s maritime industry, an important component of Australian maritime heritage. Maritime activities at Point Pearce/Burgiyana have contributed to Australia’s maritime industry through engagements that include in-kind transactions, employment within the fishing economy, and shipping trade labor—both at sea and on land. This research uses a maritime cultural landscape framework to explore Indigenous themes previously rarely employed in archaeological research. In addition, most maritime archaeological studies have neglected Aboriginal missions as potential sites/landscapes for analysis and, similarly, archaeological research at missions has largely ignored maritime aspects. The outcomes of the project illustrate that Aboriginal maritime cultural landscapes are not only a prominent part of the Australian landscape, but also provoke reconsiderations regarding how archaeologists see the relationship between the maritime and Indigenous archaeological record. The findings propose that maritime archaeologists could employ a maritime cultural landscape framework within other themes of cultural contact that include missions situated on waterways.

This chapter is dedicated to Narungga Elder Fred (Tonga) Graham (1932-2016) whose indomitable spirit, indefatigable good humour and commitment to his culture and country will be greatly missed. His honesty and integrity as a Narungga man never left him.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The term ‘mission’ archaeology as used in Australia describes government reserves and institutions, including religious missions (Middleton 2010:182).

  2. 2.

    The spelling of traditional Narungga words and names used in this chapter is consistent with the current orthography from the Narungga Aboriginal Progress Association (2006).

  3. 3.

    According to Dixon et al. (2006:242), ‘Dreaming’ refers to ‘a place or thing of special spiritual significance’ and can include sites, stories, and paths or tracks. The ‘Dreamtime’, on the other hand, refers to the time of Ancestral Beings who created the world and environment and established moral codes (Dixon et al. 2006:241–242).

  4. 4.

    Matthew Flinders left England in 1801 aboard Investigator to undertake a survey of the Australian coastline, including southern Australia . In 1802, Flinders encountered Nicolas Baudin, undertaking a similar expedition for the French, on board his ship, Le Géographe, at Encounter Bay in South Australia. Rapid left England for South Australia in 1836 with William Light, South Australia’s surveyor-general, and his surveying expedition. South Australia’s first governor, John Hindmarsh, also left England in 1836 as captain of Buffalo, which also transported other officials and settlers to the new colony (Gibbs 1969:11, 14, 30, 32).

  5. 5.

    While Taylor’s (2008:127–128) book does not feature any Narungga family names, women from the Walker family of Pt McLeay/Raukkan, who married into Point Pearce/Burgiyana families (Kartinyeri 2002:207), lived on Kangaroo Island, including Sally Walker.

  6. 6.

    According to Krichauff (2008:117), these are probably slabs of dried pigment, as Snell was an artist.

  7. 7.

    The Correspondence files of the Aborigines’ Office and successor agencies (GRG52/1) are restricted because they contain sensitive material. Only the title of files, which are available to the public at State Records of South Australia , are reproduced here as the contents of the files are not allowed to be published.

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The authors are grateful to Amy Roberts, Klynton Wanganeen, and the editor of this volume for their time in providing constructive comments during the drafting phase of this chapter. The authors would also like to thank the Narungga Aboriginal Corporation Regional Authority, Narungga Nation Aboriginal Corporation, Point Pearce Aboriginal Corporation, and Adjahdura Narungga Heritage Group for their involvement and support of this research. Also thanks to Point Pearce/Burgiyana elders and community members who participated in this project as heritage monitors and shared their knowledge during interviews. This research would not have been possible without the grant received from the Professor Ronald M. and Dr. Catherine H. Berndt Research Foundation (2013) and the scholarship received from the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (2013). This research was approved by the Flinders University Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee (Project 5806).

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Fowler, M., Rigney, LI. (2017). Collaboration, Collision, and (Re)Conciliation: Indigenous Participation in Australia’s Maritime Industry—A Case Study from Point Pearce/Burgiyana, South Australia. In: Caporaso, A. (eds) Formation Processes of Maritime Archaeological Landscapes. When the Land Meets the Sea. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48787-8_4

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