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The Gweagal shield and the fight to change the British Museum's attitude to seized artefacts

 

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Victory for Gweagal man Rodney Kelly in fight to have artefacts ... - ABC

www.abc.net.au/...gweagal-shield/7778264

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Aug 23, 2016 - A descendant of an Aboriginal man confronted by Captain James Cook on the shores of Botany Bay is a step closer to owning his ancestor's shield, after a motion was passed in NSW Parliament to have artefacts from two British museums repatriated. In 1770, a Gweagal man known as ...

Calls for British Museum to surrender Indigenous Gweagal shield - ABC

www.abc.net.au/...gweagal-shield/7280532

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Mar 28, 2016 - Aboriginal Australian descendants of the Gweagal clan in New South Wales have called for the return of a shield taken by Captain Cook on his ...

Shield, Gweagal people - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting ...

www.abc.net.au/news/.../shield-gweagal.../77783...

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Aug 23, 2016 - A wooden shield made by the Gweagal people. Print Email ... The shield on display at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra in 2015.

Shield, Gweagal people - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting ...

www.abc.net.au/.../shield-gweagal.../7778396?...

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Aug 23, 2016 - A wooden shield made by the Gweagal people. PhotoShield, Gweagal people. Supplied: © The ... More from ABC News. Home · Olympics ...

A step closer to winning back Gweagal shield | NITV - SBS

https://www.sbs.com.au/.../step-closer-winning-back-gwe...

Special Broadcasting Service

Aug 24, 2016 - The Gweagal shield and numerous spears were taken by Captain Cook's landing party ... Lucy McNally (@LucyMcNallyABC) August 23, 2016.

Petition · British Museum: British Museum Return the Gweagal Shield ...

https://www.change.org/.../british-museum-british-museum-return-the-gw...

Change.org

Apr 22, 2016 - Gweagal Shield First Contact Interview with Rodney Kelly .... Hey Everyone, we have been all over abc tv, radio & internet in the past few days !

Return the Gweagal Shield Fund by Rodney Kelly - GoFundMe

https://www.gofundme.com/gweagalshield

Apr 29, 2016 - Return the Gweagal Shield Fund by Rodney Kelly - Curently seeking ... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-22/aboriginal-family-disgusted- ...

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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.
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