Ag Buddies: Making Connections with Agriculture Leaders and Elementary Youth

The author Bill McBean defines being a leader as, “exhibiting moral and ethical courage and setting an example for everyone.” Leadership begins at an early age and demonstrating the right way to lead and how to teach others should be instilled in a child when they are young enough to develop the right tools for success. Future Farmers of America and the agriculture programs that it is integrated into are prime examples of what being a leader inhibits. The National FFA Organization states that, “they taught us that agriculture is more than planting and harvesting — it\u27s a science, it\u27s a business and it\u27s an art. So today, we are still the Future Farmers of America. But, we are also the future biologists, future chemists, future veterinarians, future engineers, future entrepreneurs and future civic leaders.“ These methods and beliefs need to be integrated into the younger generations starting at the elementary level. The concept of Ag Buddies a program that takes high school agriculture leadership students to local elementary schools’ to teach their passion and knowledge, is a way to give the next generation an opportunity to learn and find their fire for the agriculture industry. The idea is to create a program full of curriculum-based content and activities to take to the elementary schools and have the high school leadership students lead these lessons and activities to integrate agriculture into the students’ lives and elementary schools

The Black War in Arnhem Land: Missionaries and the Yolngu 1908-1940

In the 1930s Australia was stunned by a series of seemingly inexplicable murders of non –aboriginal people perpetrated by the Arnhem Land Yulngu. After eight deaths in two years, newspapers were calling it the ‘Black War’. ¶ Missionaries, police and the media were equally convinced they knew the reasons for the killings. Following the arrest and trials of the alleged killers, non-Aboriginal Australia was forced to debate the issue of their occupation of the continent. In the process, issues of Aboriginal rights to justice and defense of their land were raised. ¶ But what were the reasons for the ‘Black War’? What was the situation in Arnhem Land in the period preceding the killings? The ‘Black War’ in Arnhem Land looks at the Federal Government Policy and missionary settlement of Arnhem Land and analyses the events of the 1930’s in the context of Australian race relations in the period leading up to World War II

Strange bedfellows : Europeans and Aborigines in Arnhem land before World War II

I first arrived in Arnhem Land in November 1980 as a trainee teacher determined to seek adventure having recently finished a BA (Hons) degree in History at Melbourne. I returned in January of the following year to take up a position as teacher to post-primary girls at Milingiinbi Bilingual School

Modern Frontier: Aspects of the 1950s in Australia's Northern Territory

'Modern Frontier' is a study of Australia's Northern Territory in the 1950s using an interdisciplinary approach that takes in environmental, historical and cultural history. Through a series of chapters from a number of contributors, a decade in Australian history is revealed from a Territory perspective. The editors have brought together a diverse range of authors, experts in their fields, who provide a fascinating insight into aspects of Australian history and policy in the north. The decade that brought issues of assimilation and Aboriginal culture to the national stage, against a backdrop of the Cold War, had the Northern Territory as its theatre of representation. This book explores a period that saw a federal experiment to normalise the north, the black half of a White Australia, across a vast geographic region with diverse population; the results are often surprising and offer new insight into this period in Australian history. The editors are three historians with a wide experience of researching and writing Territory history. Modern Frontier provided them an exciting opportunity to work with a range of authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, on a subject where the issues still powerfully resonate today, more than half a century on. [ ...A multitude of facets in Territory affairs a half-century ago. It's a new view... a rich, often provocative one. Professor Alan Powell, author of 'Far Country'.]Section A: White dreams, white schemes: assimilating the territory. Ch. 1. Finding the road to Rum Jungle / Julie T. Wells -- Ch. 2. Nation and assimilation: continuity and discontinuity in Aboriginal affairs in the 1950s / Russell McGregor -- Section B: Settlers and settling. Ch. 4. Health: a matter of control / Suzanne Parry -- Ch. 5. You are what you eat: food and cultural identity / Mickey Dewar -- Ch. 6. From 'native relics to Flynn's pillar': cultural heritage management in the Northern Territory during the 1950s / David Carment, Clayton Fredericksen and Kathy De La Rue -- Ch. 7. Populating the Northern Territory / Margaret Landigran and Julie T. Wells -- Section C: What's yours is mine ... Ch. 8. Crossing trajectories: the Northern Territory and Australian art / Daena Murray -- Ch. 9. Corroboree moderne / Suzanne Spunner -- Ch. 10. The art of engagement: indigenous art and outside influence / Margie West -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- IndexJira Ticket : CDU-290 : Collection Development Manager made the decision that for the books that have this message " This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing to the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced, by any process, without written permission. Enquiries should be made to the publisher, Charles Darwin University Press, Charles Darwin University, Darwin NT 0909, Australia" in the front they would treat CDU NTU Press as the copyright holder based on this statement. CDU Press have given permission for these to be added to our site but no additional licencing terms provided. That is a reasonable risk management based decision

Connection and Disconnection: Encounters between Settlers and Indigenous People in the Northern Territory

'Connection and Disconnection' brings together twelve historians with an interest in encounters between Indigenous people and settlers in the Northern Territory. More than just a narrative of conflict and dispossession, the volume is concerned to reconceptualise the present through the past, rather than just understand the past itself. Chapters deal with a range of encounters which bring new light to bear on the relationships between people on the northern frontier - some of them positive. The volume includes new interpretations of sites of dispossession and war, together with accounts of the sometimes successful struggle by settlers to develop an understanding of Aboriginal people and cultures; well-meaning but frequently misguided attempts to provide for the welfare of Aboriginal people; and usually unsuccessful efforts by authorities to divest the people of their Aboriginality. The book will be of interest to all readers seeking to understand the circumstances that have made reconciliation such a key issue in our national identity as we approach the new millennium.Introduction. An overview : Two centuries of contact / Suzanne Parry and Tony Austin -- 1. The British meet the Tiwi : Melville island, 1824 / JMR Cameron -- 2. Gillen time: The creation of an era / Richard Kimber -- 3. Police trackers : Myth and reality / Bill Wilson -- 4. Rationing's moral economy / Tim Rowse -- 5. Discourse and disclosure : The Daly River outrage / Michael F. Christie -- 6. A bag of lollies : Children as mediators in the Northern Territory / Lyn Riddett -- 7. The literary construction of 'Half-caste' in the 1930's : Gender, sexuality and race in the Northern Territory / Mickey Dewar -- 8. The dispossession of the Warumungu : Encounters on a North Australian mining frontier / David Carment -- 9. Taming the Yolngu : Methodists, race and schooling in Arnhem land 1916-1939 / Tony Austin -- 10. Mission endeavour : The impact of Christian missions on Aboriginal health / Suzanne Parry -- 11. Welfare colonialists : Context and encounters on government settlements / Julie T. Wells -- 12. The implementation of government funded Aboriginal education in the Northern Territory 1949 to 1955 / Margot Ford.Jira Ticket : CDU-59 : Collection Development Manager made the decision that for the books that have this message " This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing to the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced, by any process, without written permission. Enquiries should be made to the publisher, Charles Darwin University Press, Charles Darwin University, Darwin NT 0909, Australia" in the front they would treat CDU NTU Press as the copyright holder based on this statement. CDU Press have given permission for these to be added to our site but no additional licencing terms provided. That is a reasonable risk management based decision