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

Dreams, the Mansion

Hi Marriam:Below is an email I sent to the Governement and Aboriginal leaders. It has occurred to me that if Aboriginal Australia settles with Native Title claims over the cities, that could be done if we agreed to form a three way partnership, business, Indigenous and Gov and agree to fund communications (improvement in technology and broadband for the Southern hemisphere) This could be an ongoing relationship incorporating business managements that could be considered as a joint national equity to promote Global business agreements. This type of plan I would agree to as it could develop ongoing and sustainable wealth generation with a sustainable basis that forms a joint resourses base with International and local management (we need good patners who have similar assets to form a solid financial base)

The people in the mansion are fine and were friendly but they were just a little out of control and taking liberties by using our communications without asking. After the initial disputation, in the dreaming, there did not seem to be a problem as the people appeared to be well educated and of good character:). Be interesting to see what comes, the dreaming is a about bio fuel production, with sustainable farming practices that rely upon soil restoration via carbon sequestration and nitrogen fixation. ( I dreamed about broad-bean flour and protien powder hahah=the middle east meets west) Keep the thinking cap on lol:)D

Last night I dreamed that we were living in a large mansion (a theme that is constant in the dreaming over a decade), I heard a noise and on investigation I discovered a group of people in the mansion with us and they were using our phone. I complained to my wife and instructed her to remove the phones from the socket so that they could not be exploited by our unwanted visitors. In the dream the mansion started to fill up with visitors and they were looking in every room and intrigued by the size an splendour of our palace.
In the next dream I was being ridiculed by a young Aboriginal boy, he was questioning my authority and abilities, he was mentioning that I would not be able to play football (hes right about me getting a kick haha :).

As you are aware there are not many Title claims that have been settled over the urban regions and cities. They just don't seem to fit into the Marbo style Native Title and legal-legislative paradigms. Without firm agreements those estates are open to exploitation and indeed the dreaming points to numerous events where Aboriginal property has been been exploited by organized crime and business. My personal view about the mansion dream is that we are being warned that there may be plans a foot to exploit National Native Title interests in order to attempt to raise fund for the implementation of the recent broadband-communications plan.
The dream about the boy is warning me that someone with no real authority or power base might try to undermine my sensibilities and authority, that is associated to my inherited Aboriginal heritage and associated responsibilities to the security of that heritage (priori rights to Indigenous knowledge, intellectual property, property and those rights held within that) The reasonable uses of Aboriginal rights for joint benefit for Government, business and the Aboriginal communities is acceptable but the unruly exploitations of Aboriginal property and rights is probably not ideal.