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Saint’s indigenous players

Post: # 1732055Post SaintPav »

How did James Gwilt get on this list?

Also, Nicky Winmar played from 1987 until 1998.

http://www.saints.com.au/news/2018-05-3 ... ead-to-toe


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One parent fom PNG, the other may or may not have indigenous heritage


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Embarrassing , Gwilt is not indigenous mum from PNG and dad from the UK.


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Post: # 1732074Post Trev from the Bush »

Junior wrote: Sat 02 Jun 2018 6:16pm Embarrassing , Gwilt is not indigenous mum from PNG and dad from the UK.
Massive stuff up from the club to list Gwilt as aboriginal - Welsh dad, PNG mum. Melanesian!


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I don’t remember Garry and Ian Barry. I’m confident they never played seniors.


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SaintPav wrote: Sat 02 Jun 2018 4:39pm How did James Gwilt get on this list?

Also, Nicky Winmar played from 1987 until 1998.

http://www.saints.com.au/news/2018-05-3 ... ead-to-toe
They left out Enrico Misso and Jason Holmes.


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kosifantutti wrote: Sat 02 Jun 2018 8:07pm
SaintPav wrote: Sat 02 Jun 2018 4:39pm How did James Gwilt get on this list?

Also, Nicky Winmar played from 1987 until 1998.

http://www.saints.com.au/news/2018-05-3 ... ead-to-toe
They left out Enrico Misso and Jason Holmes.
And congorozides left himself out


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I am an indigenous Australian.
All my ancestors arrived in the mid 1800's from the British Isles.
Part of the third migration to Australia that continues today with people from all parts of the world not just Europe.
It is sad that no descendants of the first migration survive.
The original Australians.
They were confined to Tasmania by the time the third migration began and died out soon after.


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my grandmothers grandmother was full blooded Palawa
We are not dead

but WE ARE , the 'original australians'.


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asiu wrote: Sat 02 Jun 2018 8:59pm my grandmothers grandmother was full blooded Palawa
We are not dead

but WE ARE , the 'original australians'.
Was your grandmother's grandmother Truganini the last surviving full blood Tasmanian aboriginal (died 1876) ?

Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur promised the Palawa that they would eventually have their lands returned when he had them moved to the Ferneaux Islands.
You may own all of Tasmania.
But who would want that backward island.
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i did put her name up ... but then edited it out


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Post: # 1732139Post Enrico_Misso »

I think Holmesy was from the Weardarfarcarwe tribe.


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i'll tell you something that not many know
.... the first two hung in Victoria were Palawa boys
who travelled with Truganini


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Enrico_Misso wrote: Sat 02 Jun 2018 9:53pm I think Holmesy was from the Weardarfarcarwe tribe.
I think our team may be members of the Weardarfarcarwe tribe by the way they look lost on a football field.


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http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-1 ... rs/9748834

something else , not many know

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"Particularly at the moment when there is a national conversation about constitutional recognition and treaty with Aboriginal people, these boards can be seen as an offer of a treaty," he said.

"There is a really clear commitment about equal rights and treatment before the law and an aspiration for a peaceful society.

"That central figure of an Aboriginal chief shaking hands with the Governor really symbolises to my eyes what a treaty is all about.

though , to be fair , what it showed us , was hypocriticalness personified


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I think in the paper the other day they had our top 3 indigenous players in our history being Winmar, X Clarke and R Clarke! :shock:


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The_Dud wrote: Sat 02 Jun 2018 11:13pm I think in the paper the other day they had our top 3 indigenous players in our history being Winmar, X Clarke and R Clarke! :shock:
Yep I saw that, obviously never heard of Robert Muir or Gilbert McAdam


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m


Chief Wild Eagle says
" Many moons ago tribe move west because Pilgrims ruin neighborhood.
Tribe travel west, over country and mountains and wild streams, then come big day
... tribe fall over cliff,
that when Hekawi get name.

Medicine man say to my ancestor, "I think we lost. Where the heck are we?"

the Fukawi

are a mob of pygmies who live in the tall yellow thatching grasses of tropical Africa


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Enjoyed reading the article about Gresh even if it was in the that dystopian rag.
At least last Friday it had one genuinely good page of print/ page 76. I did discover that Gresh has significant links to the Yorta Yorta people & their traditional land between the Goulburn & & Murray Rivers.
There was also mention made of Jade's connection to Nicky Winmar (one of my all-time favs @ the Saints & apparently one of Jade's favs as well.) It's been 25 years since Nicky Winmar raised his guernsey @ Vic Park in reply to the racist taunts he had to endure hearing that day but to his credit Nicky represented a positive turning point within the culture of the afl.
Good on you Jade.

Hey asiu couldn't resist pointing out that it was the Native Americans that saved 'the pilgrims'
from starvation when they first arrived on the north-east coast of america.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/let ... story.html


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They were confined to Tasmania by the time the third migration began and died out soon after.

'they' were 'confined' many years before the second wave of aboriginals walked across the big island
.... by the rising sea levels
(10,000 years ago wasnt it ?)



the Dutch were in Tassy in the 1640's
... read the ships journals of Abel Tasman's voyage and discover the highest regard
he held for the Palawa

the Chinese , no doubt , were there even earlier
... they'd been everywhere else

the bunch of jonny come latelys that were the French and British
in their wigs chaps and stockings
were nothing but classless pirates

and , in the main , remain
that way today.


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plus

i was a Grandmother short

my Grandmothers Great Grandmother was ... what the whities would call Full Blooded
born ?
died 3/4/1845

her daughter (of mums line)
made 102
her daughter (of mums line)
made 105
my mums mum
made 96

the pirates came to stay in 1803
and starting slaughtering whales for fun n profit basically straight away

i mention that , cause there's some Maori blood involved in our later songlines as well
(they being the stolen women for the whaling industry that followed)


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yes @thedome

was aware of that
this countrys people did it as well

n suffered the same fate for their openheartedness


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Gwilt was not aboriginal but fair to say he was not white. I have no problem with him being on that list. Why dont you ring the club up and ask them about his inclusion, or better still ring up Nicky Winmar or x man and ask if he should be on the list.


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chico2001 wrote: Wed 06 Jun 2018 4:55pm Gwilt was not aboriginal but fair to say he was not white. I have no problem with him being on that list. Why dont you ring the club up and ask them about his inclusion, or better still ring up Nicky Winmar or x man and ask if he should be on the list.
One of the most offensive posts I have seen in all of my years on the forum.

Colour of the skin totally irrelevant, whether you have a problem with Gwilt being on the list is totally irrelevant.

What is relevant is whether he is indigenous or not, if the list is indigenous St Kilda footballers then only have indigenous St Kilda footballers on the list.

Indigenous players are proud of their heritage and history, because they are indigenous Australians not because of colour but because of their culture.


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