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June 2018 Charles Town Maroon International Conference Magazine

Contents

Working For Peace..........................................................................................................................................4

Cockpit Country and Bauxite Mining: Protecting Jamaica’s Heart, Lungs and Veins
Hair Terrorism!! Tyranny against black people’s hair ..................................................................................13

Foot Care prevents amputations!!.................................................................................................................15
Aboriginal healing practices: The ngangkari of Central Australia ...............................................................16
Despatches from Displacement: Citizen Media in Syria..............................................................................20

How Will Our Memories Survive? ...............................................................................................................24
Indefinite Detention: Caring for Refugees in Indonesia as performance .....................................................26

The Late Colonel Frank Lumsden: Man of Vision and action......................................................................29
Sustainability through Indigenous Social Work theory and practice: Resilience and the Aboriginal
Australian Stolen Generation........................................................................................................................31
Aunty Rhonda Collard-Spratt talks about Connection to Country in Aboriginal Australia .........................34

10th Annual International Charles Town Maroon Conference & Festival Programme...............................37
Celebrating Ancestor Quao...........................................................................................................................43

Interview with Annette Brown......................................................................................................................45
Talking with the Stars: The importance of Ritual in Indigenous Knowledge Production-

The Role of Tobacco.....................................................................................................................................48
Obeah, Altars & Blood Sacrifices.................................................................................................................52
The Bench: A Jamaican tradition..................................................................................................................56

Camp Freedom versus the StolenWealth Games: Aboriginal people asserting Sovereignty in the face
of British Commonwealth Games.................................................................................................................57
Weaving the land, the mountain, the memories of place ..............................................................................60

© Charles Town Maroon Council
ISSN 0799-4354
Cover and layout: Anya Gloudon-Nelson
Editor: Dr Victoria Grieves
Publications Manager: Flavius Laidley
Published by Charles Town Maroon Council
Charles Town, Portland, Jamaica
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