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Mount Warning: Aboriginal claims about summit climb are contested Part 4: forced assimilation

Further evidence that there is substantial disagreement between Aboriginal groups in the area in relation to Mt Warning: Extract from: Unsettling Anthropology: The Demands of Native Title on Worn Concepts and Changing Lives/ edited by Toni Bauman and Gaynor MacDonald. ISBN: 9780987135339 (pbk.) P29-30 Another example is disagreement concerning use of the collective regional label ‘Bundjalung’ in north coastal New South Wales. Harry Boyd, who identifies as a Ngarakwal/Githabul elder, has argued in letters to the Federal Minister for the Environment and to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples James Anaya that the ‘False Bundjalung Nation’ ‘eliminated’ the distinct peoples of the region ( Boyd 2009) . He suggests that the term ‘Bundjalung’ was ‘created from’ linguistic texts and the work of local historians. With recognition of the Bundjalung people in heritage studies and by local councils, he argues: ‘We (Ngarakwal / Githabul) and ...