Wiltshire, Kelly, Litster, Mirani, and Rigney, Grant (2018) "Necessary Self-Defence?": Pastoral control and Ngarrindjeri resistance at Waltowa Wetland, South Australia. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, 42. pp. 81-114.

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Abstract

This paper explores frontier encounters between the Ngarrindjeri Nation and pastoralists with reference to Waltowa Wetland—a wetland located on the eastern shores of Lake Albert in South Australia (SA). Numerous accounts of this culture contact are framed by a colonial discourse of the ‘necessary self-defence’taken by colonists to defend resources that included Ngarrindjeri Ruwe (country); however, little consideration is given to the ongoing agency and resistance of the Ngarrindjeri Nation to these imposed regimes of resource control. By first considering long-term Ngarrindjeri management of Yarluwar-Ruwe (sea-country), this paper frames the European colonisation of Waltowa Wetland as historical mismanagement and maintains Ngarrindjeri resistance to this mismanagement was seen as a threat that resulted in conflict between Ngarrindjeri Old People and pastoralists. Lastly, we explore how cultural memory has impressed these past hostilities onto place in the present, thereby symbolising the ongoing significance of these events.

Item ID:	71085
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1034-4438
Keywords:	Ngarrindjeri; Waltowa Wetland; Frontier Conflict; Resistance; South Australia
Copyright Information:	© Anthropological Society of South Australia 2018
Date Deposited:	09 Jun 2022 00:15
FoR Codes:	45 INDIGENOUS STUDIES > 4501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history > 450101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archaeology @ 100%
SEO Codes:	13 CULTURE AND SOCIETY > 1307 Understanding past societies > 130703 Understanding Australia’s past @ 100%
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