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Australian Aboriginal Studies Journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies one two 2019 Contents 2019/Number 2 Editorial 1 Major articles ‘Our ways to planning’: Preparing organisations to plan with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability Angela Dew, Priya Vaughan, Elizabeth McEntyre and Leanne Dowse 3 Mission rehabilitation — a community-centric approach to Aboriginal healing Reena Tiwari, John Stephens and Ryan Hooper 19 The power to move Aborigines: law, housing and welfare David McCallum and Jennifer Laurence 34 Changing Warlpiri marriage patterns: the use of APR data in anthropological research Rob Robertson 46 When camp dogs run over maps: ‘proper-way’ research in an Aboriginal community in the north-east of Western Australia Rhonda Povey and Michelle Trudgett 61 Playing the third quarter: sport, memory and silences in Aboriginal memoirs Gary Osmond 73 Mara yurriku: Western Desert sign languages Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Jennifer Green, Inge Kral and Lauren W Reed 89 Dialogue, morality and the Deadly Questions campaign: reconstructing, reviewing and revaluing Victorian Aboriginality Michael Atkinson 112 Book reviews 125 © Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AAS Editorial Advisory Board Studies 2019 Jeanie Bell, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary © in individual articles is held by the contributor 2019 Education The views of contributors are not necessarily those of the Toni Bauman, AIATSIS Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies or the editors of the AAS. 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EDITORIAL In spite of the recent shift to a strengths-based Rob Robertson introduces the Aboriginal approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Population Record in the Northern Territory and studies, we still live with the constant drumbeat of discusses its potential as a source of material for a assimilation. What we have now is a strengths-based range of historical and anthropological research. approach to assimilation. The goal has not changed Rhonda Povey and Michelle Trudgett explain the from the previous deficit discourse approach. It is, use of Indigenous research methods as a ‘proper- still, assimilate for our own good. Some who hold way’ approach to research involving Aboriginal positions of influence and power still endorse the people. Their paper argues that collaborative and idea that teaching our children their own culture emancipatory research processes support decolo- will retard them. In this view, our ways of being nisation of history through the telling of different and living are not taken seriously. The research we stories. Gary Osmond surveys autobiographies, publish is crucial, not only to understanding the biographies, interviews and ‘as told to’ accounts situation, but to offering a counter view — one that by Aboriginal Queenslanders from Cherbourg, shows the importance of valuing, maintaining and Palm Island, Woorabinda and Yarrabah — former protecting our ways in this current situation as well government Aboriginal settlements and missions as for building the strongest futures. — for insights into the sporting past. Premised on You will see this in the ‘Our ways to plan- the importance of sport to Aboriginal people, and ning’ paper, where Angela Dew, Priya Vaughan, in recognition of deep sporting engagement histor- Elizabeth McEntyre and Leanne Dowse report ically, Osmond’s paper explores the complex rela- on the development of a guide to working for tionship of people with sport, which includes, but Aboriginal people with disabilities. They present exceeds, racism and victimhood. In their Mara what they learned about Aboriginal cultures, yurriku paper, Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Jennifer histories and points of view and make recom- Green, Inge Kral and Lauren W Reed describe mendations about effective planning. Their work the context of sign language use in the Western draws on discussions with Aboriginal people with Desert. They situate sign language within the disabilities, their family members and support workers from five New South Wales communities. spectrum of multimodal communicative practices Reena Tiwari, John Stephens and Ryan Hooper in the Western Desert, including the innovation of offer more evidence against the lie that Aboriginal ‘air writing’. The paper provides a Ngaanyatjarra/ children were removed from their families and Ngaatjatjarra perspective on sign. communities for their own good. Tiwari, Stephens In the final paper in this edition, Michael and Hooper propose an approach to healing that Atkinson shares his analysis of 100 questions on emphasises connections to land, memory and the Deadly Questions website. Atkinson gives group identity. Importantly, this paper considers us an insight into the ways that meanings that Aboriginal agency and impact of the approach members of mainstream cultural groups bring on Aboriginal people and communities. David to their dialogues with Aboriginal people are McCallum and Jennifer Laurence’s paper on strongly bound with their moral outlook. The the power to regulate the lives of ‘protected’ paper concludes by reflecting on pathways to Aborigines living in Victoria in the 1960s also promote a more dialogical vision of Aboriginal challenges the ‘for their own good’ narrative. and mainstream cultural relations, making the The story they tell should be a warning against case that it beholds those with a humanitarian approaches to administrative practices