'Like a Rusty Nail, You Can Never Hold Us Blackfellas Down': Cultural Resilience in the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria

Sean Kerins; Jack Green

doi:10.1201/9780429471056

'Like a Rusty Nail, You Can Never Hold Us Blackfellas Down': Cultural Resilience in the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria

Sean Kerins, Jack Green

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Even though their countries were violently invaded by settler colonisers in the 1870s, the Indigenous peoples of the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region maintained their social capital their laws, cultures, knowledge, ceremonies and songs to survive as distinct groups. Then when legal opportunities became available they regained ownership of some of their ancestral lands and then, over a period of 40 years, they slowly rebuilt their natural capital; their lands, waters and other natural resources. Using both their natural and social capital have they developed innovative community-based cultural and natural resource management initiatives to provide social, economic and environmental benefits to themselves and to the wider Australian community.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia: Indigenous rights, aspirations, and cultural responsibilities
Editors	Jeremy Russell-Smith, Glenn James, Howard Pedersen, Kamaljit K. Sangha
Place of Publication	Boca Raton, FL
Publisher	CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
Pages	177-202
Volume	1
Edition	1st edition
ISBN (Print)	9781138600201
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429471056
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Kerins, S., & Green, J. (2018). 'Like a Rusty Nail, You Can Never Hold Us Blackfellas Down': Cultural Resilience in the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria. In J. R.-S. G. J. H. P. K. K. S. (Ed.), Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia: Indigenous rights, aspirations, and cultural responsibilities (1st edition ed., Vol. 1, pp. 177-202). CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429471056

Kerins, Sean ; Green, Jack. / 'Like a Rusty Nail, You Can Never Hold Us Blackfellas Down': Cultural Resilience in the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria. Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia: Indigenous rights, aspirations, and cultural responsibilities. editor / Jeremy Russell-Smith, Glenn James, Howard Pedersen, Kamaljit K. Sangha. Vol. 1 1st edition. ed. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. pp. 177-202

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