A PEACEABLE SOVEREIGNTY

 

Beyond War's Aboriginal partners have diverse aspirations and visions for the future. But together, recognition of the history and sovereignty of this Land is key. A Peaceable Sovereignty is the way Beyond War "pays the rent". A proportion of all donations will go to Aboriginal Projects.

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Partnering with Gimuy Walubara Yidindji and Gimuy Peace Pilgrims, from the heart of Cairns in Far North Queensland, we have supported a Frontier Wars Ceremony. The ceremony has occurred each year since 2016 and is an opportunity for local community to highlight and heal from severe Frontier violence in the Cairns region.

Peaceable Sovereignty Projects could look like:

                • Requests for travel to organized mobilisations that are organized by First Nations People. 
                • Individuals and First Nations writing or research projects.
                • Truthtelling ceremonies and projects.
                • Projects which align with our values but not organised by our close associates.

 

Peaceable Sovereignty projects should predominantly support the First Nations people behind the initiative. We aim to support people and projects that will influence us and the people in our organising 'eco-system'..

Project should be First Nations administered – that is visioned and run by First Nations people.

Peaceable Sovereignty is based on recognition of the true history of violent dispossession that occurred in the Frontier Wars on this continent and the ongoing violence experienced by First Nations people.  

Violence is experienced in the justice system, via interactions with police and in the prisons. It also comes by way of the militarisation and remilitarisation of First Nations lands. Beyond War continues to support and partner with projects based on restoring right relationships through truth telling, redress and justice. 

We recognise that events occurred during settlement of this land that contained all the brutality of events you find in any war: battles, defence of land, massacres, poisonings, pursuit, kidnapping, rapes, disappearances, and torture. These wars, which rolled out over 80 to 100 years, were then never spoken. The silence itself was held by violence. 

We look forward to supporting sovereignty-related projects which draw the links between the true history of the violent dispossession that occurred in these Frontier Wars with a view to restoring right relationships between First Nations people the land and the migrant people that continue to arrive on these shores.

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Acknowledgement of Sovereignty and Traditional Authority

We acknowledge the Yidindji people who have cared for the land in the area of the Wet Tropics and Great Barrier Reef near Cairns; and that their land was never ceded. We acknowledge the Traditional Authority in the places we organise from, for example, of the Gimuy Walubara Yidindji, the Ngambri in Canberra, the Eora in Sydney and the Wurundjeri in Narrm. We recognise and honour them, their elders, the ancestors, the emerging leaders. And we thank them for looking after the beautiful country that is the Land that sustains us. 

 

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