Ngarrindjeri contact with Kingsley Ahang Kingston

From: Maxwell, Kym Thomas - maxkt001
Sent: Mon 9/27/2010 5:10 AM
To: white.dingo@yahoo.com
Cc: Joan Gibbs
Subject: Hello Kingley
Hello to Kingley Ahang and to Joan Gibbs (UNISA) from Kym Maxwell

It was a pleasure to meet you and to catch up with you at the Fishermans Wharf market on Sunday Kingsley and as I said I would then,I am now contacting you via my email to make a connection to exchange thoughts that associate to the greater Ngarrindjeri Nation, within the South Eastern bio regions of South Australia. I understand that you are a part of an Aboriginal organization that holds an interest into heritage and environmental protection within the Kingston region. You explained to me that you are a part of the Thankald people and that those people identify to be a part of the greater Ngarrindjeri Nation. I identify to be a part of a lost group within the Ngarrindjeri Nation that are linked to the South East, the middle South Coast and the Adelaide plains, that extends to the mid North and links to the Nadgeri. To include the others within my region I identify the Kaurna and those associations within my group as Ngarrindjeri-Kaurna and thus they are included to be a part of the Ngarrindjeri-Kaurna Nations. Because of the previous translocation and forced migration of peoples from region to region, we now have a melting pot of peoples who are interrelated and they also identify to there regional associations that may have been altered due to translocation etc (you are probably aware of the issues the Aboriginal Nations are facing due to that problem alone)
Funding and the applications of Government grants for land restoration work is an issue that may need to be discussed so that the care for the whole South Eastern region is taken into consideration, it is all interelated into one large ecosystem that is co-dependent upon all of the facilitating ecosytems. I can recall that you mentioned to me that your group is working within caring for country practices and that they have an interest within land-restoration etc. The key stakeholders may have options, they can either join forces and share within a larger grant application or they can apply each as independent parties representing there sub groups (this is in the dreaming). The key stake holders could consider, but within the context of scientific analysis being respected; UNISA, the NRM and the Government will obviously play a role within the decision making processes. Because the Ngarrindjeri is such a large Nation we may be able to have 2 regional groups comprising of the South and the North (in the dreaming) but with sympathetic ideals and similar plans=caring for country. Within my part you may be able to assist me to identify all of the major stake holders within the South Eastern region so that I can connect with those parties to gain an understanding of there ideas, expectations and requirements.
The theme of caring for country, in brief the International and National perspectives could involve both C02 reduction (carbon sequestration), biomass production, soil-water condition, biodiversity and species+remnant forest protection. Please consult with your representative body and relay those thoughts and ideals, at this time we are only engaging into conversations and I can not act independently or without consultations with the others, the University, the Government and the NRM board.

Regards from Kym Maxwell