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Aboriginal Charter of Rightsby Oodgeroo Noonuccal ? From book: The Dawn Is At Hand We want hope, not racialism,Brotherhood, not ostracism,Black advance, not white ascendance:Make us equals, not dependants.We need help, not exploitation,We want freedom, not frustration;Not control, but self-reliance,Independence, not compliance,Not rebuff, but education,Self-respect, not resignation.Free us from a mean subjection,From a bureaucrat Protection.Let's forget the old-time slavers:Give us fellowship, not favours;Encouragement, not prohibitions,Homes, not settlements and missions.We need love, not overlordship,Grip of hand, not whip-hand wardship;Opportunity that placesWhite and black on equal basis.You dishearten, not defend us,Circumscribe, who should befriend us.Give us welcome, not aversion,Give us choice, not cold coercion,Status, not discrimination,Human rights, not segregation.You the law, like Roman Pontius,Make us proud, not colour-conscious;Give the deal you still deny us,Give goodwill, not bigot bias;Give ambition, not prevention,Confidence, not condescension;Give incentive, not restriction,Give us Christ, not crucifixion.Though baptized and blessed and BibledWe are still tabooed and libelled.You devout Salvation-sellers,Make us neighbours, not fringe-dwellers;Make us mates, not poor relations,Citizens, not serfs on stations.Must we native Old AustraliansIn our own land rank as aliens?Banish bans and conquer caste,Then we'll win our own at last.In the poem "The aboriginal Charter of rights" Oodgeroo noonuccal uses many poetic techniques to express her feeling about the unfairness of the treatment to her people from the Australian population and Government this Is proven through techniques for example when she says "Give?us the deal you still deny us,?Give?goodwill not bigot bias;?Give?ambition, not prevention?Give?incentive not restriction" these line use alliteration and repetition and uses powerful words to describe an image in your head that they keep getting rejected for peace between their differences and that they want peace between each other instead of discrimination and unfairness to her and her people. The repetition of the word Give emphasis the need and right of aboriginals to be treated equally to the white Australian population. Oodgeroo Noonuccal also uses rhyme in her poem to demonstrate how determined she is to make aboriginal people equal to Australian white population for example?We want hope not racialism,?Brotherhood, not ostracism,?Black advance, not white ascendance?Make us equals, not dependents. Throughout the poem Oodgeroo noonuccal uses many poetic techniques to show to everyone and the targeted audience in this case the Australian government and people how determined she is between peace and equal rights and fairness between each other.ParaphraseThis poem is about the Aboriginal rights and what these native Australians would want, and what they don’t want. It’s a statement-poem.MeaningIntentionsThe author wants to make us aware of the rights aboriginals should have and even more important: the rights they didn’t have at the time of writing.LanguageSettingPlace: Time: Social: Cultural: NotesAboriginal Charter of Rights (1964) by Oodgeroo/Kath WalkerWhich rhetorical device is used in this poem?A lot of contradictions are being usedMaking demands, repetitions (beginning of the sentence give/we anaphora)What is the intention of the writer?Which events and circumstances are alluded to?‘Dramatic’ readingFound on the internetAn incomplete analysisAboriginal Charter of Rights AnalysisAboriginal Charter of Rights by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) is a poem about the treatment of the Aboriginal population of Australia. Written in 1962, the purpose of this text was to expose the inequality, prejudice and suffering faced by the Aborigines under the control of the Australian government and political system. Noonuccal was a strong believer in indigenous rights and this is strongly portrayed in the poem. She uses a critical tone, juxtaposition and repetition to emphasise her point. Aboriginal Charter of Rights exposes the uses and abuses of power by the Australian white majority.?Aboriginal Charter of Rights, aimed at a white audience in the 1960s, discusses the problems faced by the aboriginal people and how they want to be treated as equals. It also shows that they know that they are being exploited and the lack of respect they receive. Lines such as “Must we native Old Australians in our land rank as aliens?” (lines 41-42) and “Give us welcome, not aversion” (line 23) are used to tell the reader that the Aborigines, whom had called Australia home, long before the white settlers, are alienated from their homes and from society. The poem also references religious indoctrination and how, even after the indigenous people were “…baptised and blessed and bibled” (line 35), they are still “…tabooed and libeled” (line 36). The poem gives a message to the white population that the aboriginal people do not want to be exploited and that they want the discrimination to end. This is shown in lines such as “Make us equals, not dependents” (line 4). Aboriginal Charter of Rights exposes the problems in society and how, through abuse of power, the Aboriginal people’s rights were oppressed.In this poem, Noonuccal uses many languages techniques that serve in positioning the reader to believe that Aboriginals are being marginalised and discriminated against.Analysis 2The text I have chosen is called ’Aboriginal Charter of Rights ‘by Oodgeroo Noonuccal. It is a poem from 1962. The purpose of this text is to highlight the problems and suffering of the Australian Aboriginal population under the control of the Australian government and political system. The author describes the lack of equality and choices for aboriginals because of discrimination and prohibitions. The intended audience for this text are the white Australian population and the Australian Government.The dominant representation in this poem is about how the reader is positioned to believe that the Australian Aboriginals are being treated unfairly, being discriminated and are not given what they want and need. An example of that could be found in the quote?“Make us neighbours, not fringe-dwellers; Make us mates, not poor relations, Citizens, not serfs on stations.”?In this quote Noonuccal wants to demonstrate how hard it is to live as an Aboriginal in Australia. The reader is also positioned to believe that aboriginals are a valued part of the native Australian culture. This is shown in the following quote?“Must we native Old Australians in our land rank as aliens?”?This quote shows that even though aboriginals are a valued part of the Australian native culture they are still being discriminated and treatred unfairly. The text can be read resistantly as it does involve two different cultures leading to different opinion, different point of views and misunderstanding. For instance, in the quote?“Homes, not settlements and missions”,?the white Australians thought that a way to help the Aboriginals is to give them a place to live in; however the Aboriginals were offended by this action. Not forgetting that Noonuncal is not representing all the Aboriginals point of view and this is just one of the reasons of how the conflict started. Many quotes have been used to show stereotype?“Black advance, not while ascendance”; “Status, not discrimination”; “Make us proud, not colour- conscious”?These quotes marginalise the Aboriginals as it shows how they are treated less important than the white people.?In this poem, Noonuccal uses many languages techniques that serve in positioning the reader to believe that Aboriginals are being marginalised and discriminated.?In this quote?“Must we native Old Australians in our land rank as aliens?”?Metaphor has been used to show that Aboriginals are being looked at differently. Alliteration is also present in this poem:?Give?us the deal you still deny us,?Give?goodwill not bigot bias;?Give?ambition, not prevention?Give?incentive not restriction?The repetition of “Give” is to emphasise the need and rights of Aboriginals to be treated fairly.The use of the rhyme technique is also present as every 2 lines rhyme together. This is demonstrated in the following quotes:?We want hope not racialism,?Brotherhood, not ostracism,?Black advance, not white ascendance?Make us equals, not dependents?Rhyme is used here to demonstrate the unfairly treated Aboriginal.?Juxtaposition is also being used to emphasize on what Aboriginal do not want by repeating the word “not”. This is proved in the following quote?“We need to love?not?overlordship, Grip of hand?not?whip- hand ward ship”.?The text contribute to our understanding of the Australian identity in a negative way as it positions the reader to believe that the white Australians are disrespecting and discriminating the native Australians. However, we should take into consideration that this is the Author’s point of view and not necessarily the real intention of the white Australians.?Literary termsAlliteration Dit is makkelijk terug te vinden.Assonance Dit is makkelijk terug te vinden.Hyperbole There are a lot of overstatements in this poem however, a lot of it is true or representative of the truth.Crucifixion (line 34)Rhythm Rhythm is created by making each two lines rhyme and by creating the same patterns throughout the poem.Simile As aliens (line 42)Stanza This poem doesn’t have stanza’s, each 2 lines rhyme.ToneThe tone is serious and demanding?The DispossessedFrom book: My people: a Kath Walker collection Oodgeroo Noonuccal Peace was yours, Australian man, with tribal laws you made,Till white colonials stole your peace with rape and murder raid;They shot and poisoned and enslaved until, a scattered few,Only a remnant now remain, and the heart dies in you.The white man claimed your hunting grounds, and you could not remain,They made you work as menials for greedy private gain;Your tribes are broken vagrants now wherever whites abide,And justice of the white man means justice to you denied.They brought you Bibles and disease, the liquor and the gun:With Christian culture such as these the white command was won.A dying race you linger on, degraded and oppressed,Outcasts in your own native land, you are the dispossessed.When churches mean a way of life, as Christians proudly claim,And when hypocrisy is scorned and hate is counted shame,Then only shall intolerance die and old injustice cease,And white and dark as brothers find equality and peace.But oh, so long the wait has been, so slow the justice due,Courage decays for want of hope, and the heart dies in you. AustraliaJack DavisTo the Others You once smiled a friendly smile,Said we were kin to one another, Thus with guile for a short while Became to me a brother. Then you swamped my way of gladness, Took my children from my side, Snapped shut the law book, oh my sadness At Yirrakalas’ plea denied. So, I remember Lake George hills, The thin stick bones of people.Sudden death, and greed that kills, That gave you church and steeple.I cry again for Warrarra men, Gone from kith and kind, And I wondered when I would find a pen To probe your freckled mind. I mourned again for the Murray tribe, Gone too without a trace. I thought of the soldier’s diatribe, The smile on the governor’s face.You murdered me with rope, with gun The massacre of my enclave,You buried me deep on McLarty’s run Flung into a common grave.You propped me up with Christ, red tape, Tobacco, grog and fears, Then disease and lordly rape Through the brutish years. Now you primly say you’re justified, And sing of a nation’s glory, But I think of a people crucified - The real Australian story. HYPERLINK "" Dusk By Ali Cobby?Eckermannshe sits on a rocky ledgeoverlooking frog songpuncturing?a choked riverat duskit is only here native birds singtheir evening lullabyechoed between red banksovergrown with weedsit’s like life slips away in the eveninga resounding of Salientia castanetssoon to fall silentlike flaking mossshe listens for earth songunder the algae and foreign reedsand just as darkness fallsa fish jumps rippling memoryAn Aboriginal Mother's Lamentby Charles Harpur ?(1817–68)STILL farther would I fly, my child,??To make thee safer yetFrom the usparing white man,??With his dread hand murder-wet!I ’ll bear thee on as I have borne????????5??With stealthy steps wind-fleet,But the dark night shrouds the forest,??And thorns are in my feet.?????O moan not! I would give this braid—??????Thy father’s gift to me—????????10????But for a single palmful??????Of water now for thee.?Ah, spring not to his name—no more??To glad us may he come—He is smouldering into ashes????????15??Beneath the blasted gum;All charred and blasted by the fire??The white man kindled there,And fed with our slaughtered kindred??Till heaven-high went its glare!????????20?And but for thee, I would their fire??Had eaten me as fast!Hark! Hark! I hear his death-cry??Yet lengthening up the blast!But no—when his bound hands had signed????????25??The way that we should fly,On the roaring pyre flung bleeding—??I saw thy father die!?No more shall his loud tomahawk??Be plied to win our cheer,????????30Or the shining fish pools darken??Beneath his shadowing spear;The fading tracks of his fleet foot??Shall guide not as before,And the mountain-spirits mimic????????35??His hunting call no more!?????O moan not! I would give this braid—??????Thy father’s gift to me—????For but a single palmful??????Of water now for thee. ................
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