[Dialogue] Healing homelands down under

[Clare Whitney]

I read the article with amazement!  I am so stunned at the reversal of so 
many policies that just destroyed a people. It is a great article in the 
Nature Conservancy Magazine, and can be found on line.  It makes me rejoice, 
especially as the seeds we have scattered with weeping have funally 
flowered.  I guess that means that all the work we did all over the world 
when we despaired of seeing anything happen might in fact bear fruit in its 
own time, and that's the way it will be.  Let's hold fast to that thought.

Read the article and rejoice.  And say a "thank you" to all our colleagues 
in Australia who have never let the "powers that be" forget that there is a 
job to do that is unfinished and waiting for the vision to get it started. 
They have been faithful in keeping this issue before the government and the 
world.

Clare Whitney


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Nelson" <wnelson at ica-associates.ca>
To: "Colleague Dialogue" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:59 AM
Subject: [Dialogue] Healing homelands down under


> Looks to me like Fish River Station is the property just west of Forrest 
> River Station, Oombulgurri.  These are huge places  - like a small US 
> state - and i didn't take enough time to find a detailed map.
>
> The people are closely related - linguistically and culturally and almost 
> certainly many of  the families are related.  Kinship traditions would 
> almost decree it.
>
> I think it would be totally amazing to do the sort of Human Development 
> projects now. With the general rise in awareness, formal education, sense 
> of community selfhood and personal empowerment -  increased sensitivity to 
> the natural world and the structural openness to collaborative 
> relationships, it would be a totally different experience. Just imagine 
> playing a role in that process. The intensity of coming-true-dreams would 
> be a complete rush.
>
> I do not think it would be at all fanciful to suggest that our work in the 
> area contributed to development / enhancement of the capacity to engage in 
> a sophisticated project of that nature. I did have this conversation with 
> Craig Cromelin, the big dog of the Murrin Bridge Land Council. He said, 
> with very little prompting, much the same thing. He felt the value of our 
> work in the community has more to do with the effect on the people than it 
> did with any of the physical 'projects'. He said it in his own way, but, 
> without question, that was his point. He said they were 'changed people.' 
> There are a core of people there who are fully committed to continued 
> locally initiated and managed development.
>
> Thanks,
>
> \\/
>
>
> - - - - - - - - - - Wayne Nelson
> wnelson at ica-associates.ca
> O - 416-691-2316
> M - 647-229-6910
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>
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> On 2012-03-27, at 7:16 PM, Len Hockley wrote:
>
>> Hey, Anyone connected to Oombulgurri must need see this article on "Fish 
>> River Station" in  the current Nature Conservancy magazine:
>>
>> http://magazine.nature.org/features/home-country.xml
>>
>> Len
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