Food and governance on the frontiers of colonial Australia and Canada’s North West Territories

Nettelbeck, Amanda; Foster, Robert

doi:10.22459/ah.36.2013.02

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“…The distribution of 'rations' is a well-known trope in the relations between European colonists and Aboriginal people, but there are relatively few specific studies of the phenomenon. Nettelbeck & Foster (2012) appears to be the only continent-wide historical study of rationing, set in the broader context of British colonial policies. Apart from that, the situation in South Australia and the Northern Territory (part of South Australia until 1911) is probably the one that has been explored in most detail, with studies like Foster (1989Foster ( , 2000, Rowse (1998) and Brock (2008).…”

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“…Historical and ethnographic studies on food distribution focus mainly on policies and motivations for distributing food, the products being distributed, and/or on the effects on the Aboriginal populations. Motivations appear to have been varied and evolving over time, from 'feasts' as apparent gestures of goodwill in early colonial contexts, over compensation for lost food resources and food as a means of pacification, to outright control and/or meagre payment on missions, reserves and pastoral stations (Nettelbeck & Foster 2012). The goods distributed included not just food but also clothes and blankets (see Martinez 2007, Brock 2007.…”

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Rations: Flour, sugar, tea and tobacco in Australian languages

Hoogmartens

Verstraete

2020

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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This paper is a lexical study of rationsflour, sugar, tea and tobaccoin Australian languages. The distribution of food played an important role in relations between Aboriginal people and colonisers: this study complements existing historical and ethnographic work on the topic by investigating the lexicon of rations in a set of 197 languages across Australia. We discern a number of patterns. There are relatively few extensions of terms for traditional equivalents in the case of 'flour', 'sugar' and 'tea', for a number of reasons, while tobacco shows more such extensions. Extensions based on other terms highlight semantic features like texture for flour and sugar, shape of the main ingredient for tea, and smoking as the new mode of consumption for tobacco. Other minor patterns highlight colour, processing and flavour.There is also some areal patterning in the data, some related to borrowing, from Austronesian languages as well as internally, and others based on semantic structure.

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Rations: Flour, sugar, tea and tobacco in Australian languages

Hoogmartens

Verstraete

2020

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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“…61 In the other larger colonies, where new settler frontiers were still emerging and reserves did not yet present a feasible option of Indigenous governance, protection became largely limited to distributions of rations that were usually undertaken at outlying depots distant from urban centres. 62 However, dispossessed Indigenous people retained a visible presence on the margins of colonial cities and towns, and as colonial urbanisation became more concentrated, a discourse consolidated around them of destitution, degeneration and vagrancy. 63 away from the concentration of colonial settlement, and this was still the case.…”

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Creating the Aboriginal Vagrant

Nettelbeck¹

2018

Pacific Historical Review

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This article considers how shifting programs of Aboriginal protection in nineteenth-century Australia responded to Indigenous mobility as a problem of colonial governance and how they contributed over time to creating an emergent discourse of the Aboriginal ''vagrant.'' There has been surprisingly little attention to how the legal charge of vagrancy became applied to Indigenous people in colonial Australia before the twentieth century, perhaps because the very notion of the Aboriginal vagrant was subject to ambivalence throughout much of the nineteenth century. When vagrancy laws were first introduced into Australia's colonies, Aboriginal people were exempt from them as a group not yet subject to the ordinary regulatory codes of colonial society. Bringing them within the protective fold of colonial social order was one of the principal tasks of the office of 'protection' that was introduced into three Australian jurisdictions during the late 1830s. As the nineteenth century progressed and Aboriginal people became more susceptible to social order policing, a concept of Indigenous vagrancy hardened into place, and programs of protection became central to its management.

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2014

Pacific Histories

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Food and governance on the frontiers of colonial Australia and Canada’s North West Territories

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