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The Gweagal Shield
First Contact 1770 : The Day that changed Australia forever...
'The Story of the Gweagal Shield...'
A JOURNEY TO RETURN THE ARTEFACTS OF FIRST CONTACT
The Gweagal Shield is the shield taken by James Cook and his companions when they first stood on Australian soil at Botany Bay in 1770. As they approached the shore Cook and his crew were warned-off by two Gweagal men shaking spears at them and shouting. ln the exchange that followed the shield’s owner, Cooman, was shot in the leg by Cook and ran for cover. The shield was then taken by Cook from where it was left.
The First Contact speaking tour teaches about how life was in Australia for more than 60, 000 years before Cook arrived, how an act of violence and theft in 1770 was to become the first of many more. From massacres and concentration camps to the loss of entire tribes and the modern day predicamant of Australia's Original People as told by Roxley Foley..
'1770, First Contact' is hosted by Rodney Kelly and tells the true story of April 28 1770, the day Lt. Cook landed in Botany Bay and everything changed in Australia forever...
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’All they seem’d to want was for us to be gone’.
Roxley Foley
Rodney Kelly
Vincent Forrester
Hear first hand, the oral history of the first contact event that has been passed down through the Gweagal clan for the past 246 years.
Rodney Kelly is the custodian of this story of first contact.
Hear him talk about why he is travelling to the UK to return the artefacts of his ancestors from the British Museum to the Gweagal clan of the Dharawal tribe in Sydney to form the centrepiece of an Aboriginal Living Cultural Heritage Museum.
Brought to life with a never before seen multi-media, multi-sensorial experience. This is a unique opportunity to catch a dose of Australia's Original culture from three intriguing speakers perspectives...
RODNEY KELLY (sixth time great-grandson of the warrior Cooman who stood on the beach when Cook landed in Botany Bay in 1770), Rodney Kelly tells the authentic story of first contact passed down through his family.
ROXLEY FOLEY (son of Gary Foley, founder of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy) Roxley Foley willdiscuss the modern day predicament of Aboriginal Australia & the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
& VINCENT FORRESTER initiated Luritja Elder from Central Australia. Vincent will tell dream time stories & talk about Australia before 1770.
Didjeridoo, Dreamtime Stories, Tales from the Tent Embassy and
stories from pre-contact times & first contact in 1770.
Don't miss out on this speaking tour about 'the Day that changed Australia forever...'
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Rodney is a sixth generation descendant of the Gweagal shield’s owner Cooman and is committed to seeing the shield returned to its home Country in Sydney.
Rodney is a sixth generation descendant of the shield’s owner Cooman and is committed to seeing
the shield returned to its home Country in Sydney.
Rodney is a sixth generation descendant of the Gweagal shield’s owner Cooman.
Rodney is committed to seeing the shield returned to its home Country in Sydney.
Rodney is a sixth generation descendant of the shield’s owner Cooman and is committed to seeing
the shield returned to its home Country in Sydney.
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