Indigenous sport and heritage: Cherbourg's Ration Shed Museum

Phillips, Murray G.; Osmond, Gary; Morgan, Sandra

doi:10.1080/1743873x.2014.904317

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“…26 We continued to follow ethical protocols by being consultative, respectful of community needs, and providing feedback. What we took from our work on the Eddie Gilbert statue was that our perspectives did not always match Indigenous perspectives.…”

Section: Cherbourg's Ration Shed Museum: Phillips and Osmond Reflectmentioning

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Crossing Lines: Sport History, Transformative Narratives, and Aboriginal Australia

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Osmond

2015

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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Crossing Lines: Sport History, Transformative Narratives, and Aboriginal Australia

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2015

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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“…While this statement is open to substantial challenge, there are a variety of empirical works supporting its importance. For example, some scholars have suggested that contemporary Aboriginal peoples equate the positivity of sport to overcoming racism as well as building their sense of self-esteem and dignity (Besley et al 2013;Cottle and Keys 2010;Phillips, Osmond, and Morgan 2014). Further, it has been suggested that in contrast to the more sorrowful bases upon which related and connected people from all over the country might gather (e.g.…”

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Sport as a cultural offset in Aboriginal Australia?

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2019

Annals of Leisure Research

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“…51 While few objects directly from the marching days were on hand, replica uniforms hung at the museum and Lesley had acquired a trophy which the group viewed, handled and discussed. The first session was held in the State Library of Queensland's Indigenous space, kuril dhagun.…”

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Indigenous Women's Sporting Experiences: Agency, Resistance and Nostalgia

Osmond

Phillips

2018

Aus J of Politics History

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Australian sports historiography, in privileging Western, reconstructionist approaches to narrating histories of Aboriginal sport, has overlooked Indigenous research methodologies that privilege Aboriginal voices. This paper adopts the Indigenous research methodology of yarning in a collaborative project with former sportswomen from the Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement in Queensland. Yarning, as a culturally respectful way of eliciting memories and valuing expression of Indigenous voices, was used to explore their experiences, memories and meanings of competitive marching, a popular sport for young women in mid-twentieth century Australia. The yarning sessions revealed insights into sport that are missing from the empirical, archival record, and allowed the exploration of agency and autonomy, acts of resistance, and complex intersections of nostalgia and trauma. This paper offers specific and broader insights on sport in Australian Indigenous communities and on the entanglement of the sporting past with the histories and politics of race and gender in Queensland. In repositioning researcher and researched in Aboriginal sport history, this paper demonstrates the potential of transformative narratives about the experiences of Indigenous Australians. but sport rarely features in these accounts. 2 One possible explanation for the paucity of sporting voices is that men, who had the longest and most sustained engagement with sport throughout Cherbourg's history, have been slower than women in grappling with their experiences under the Act. 3 It is the women of Cherbourg who have most thoroughly tackled the past. Often, this is done in the spirit of healing, attempting to reconcile the past, with the intent of building a productive and meaningful future. 4 This paper grew from a collaborative research project about sport history in Cherbourg that sought to engage with community memories, meanings and perspectives on the sporting past. 5 During that engagement over several years, female Elders asked us to help them research and tell the history of the Marching Girlsteams of competitive, precision marcherswho were active in the 1950s and 1960s. That project led to an analysis of official rationales for marching, and how the sport furthered assimilationist policy aims of the Queensland government. 6 It did not attempt to explore the women's experiences or their memories of marching, which are warmly recalled in Cherbourg six decades later. Marching memories feature in a sport exhibit at the community's Ration Shed Museum, where a plaque reads: "The marching girls are fondly remembered by the Cherbourg community as a crossover recreational and semi-sporting activity […]". 7 Former participants, typically aged in their sixties and seventies, take an active interest in preserving memories of their activities, including sewing replica marching uniforms for the museum display. 8 These representations of marching provide an ideal opportunity to explore the subjective, lived experiences and memories of Cherbourg women. What di...

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Indigenous sport and heritage: Cherbourg's Ration Shed Museum

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Crossing Lines: Sport History, Transformative Narratives, and Aboriginal Australia

Crossing Lines: Sport History, Transformative Narratives, and Aboriginal Australia

Sport as a cultural offset in Aboriginal Australia?

Indigenous Women's Sporting Experiences: Agency, Resistance and Nostalgia

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