Guide to the Papers of Ann Jackson-Nakano

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MS 9154, MS Acc99.076, MS Acc00.138, MS Acc07.152.MS Acc08.116, MS Acc08.145, MS Acc09.153

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Collection Summary

Creator
Jackson-Nakano, Ann (1950-)
Title
Papers of Ann Jackson-Nakano
Date Range
1974-2008
Collection Number
MS 9154, MS Acc99.076, MS Acc00.138, MS Acc07.152.MS Acc08.116, MS Acc08.145, MS Acc09.153
Extent
5.95 metres (17 boxes + 8 cartons + 2 folio boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

MS 9154 comprises the "Application by Nurri Arnold Williams on behalf of the Ngunnawal people for a determination of native title for land in the Australian Capital Territory". The applicant's submissions and evidence includes information prepared on behalf of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council: 1. Ngunnawal native title claim historical overview, a selection of primary sources for Namadgi and the Ngunnawal, and Ngunnawal genealogies by Ann Jackson-Nakano. 2. Statement of evidence of the claimant, Nurri Arnold Williams. 3. Archaeological overview of Namadgi and other areas included in the submission by Steven Avery. The collection also includes Ann Jackson-Nakano's thesis (1 fol. box).

The Acc99.076 instalment comprises articles, 1978-1979, photographs and photograph albums, magazines, booklets, notebooks, research material, drafts, and other papers including personal papers from Jackson-Nakano's time in Japan (8 cartons, 1 fol. box).

The Acc00.138 instalment consists of further papers (1 box).

The Acc07.152 instalment includes correspondence, research material, media clippings and publications relating to Indigenous history and issues. In addition, there is a copy of Jackson-Nakano's book Ngambri ancestral names: for geographical places and features in the Australian Capital Territory and surrounds (2005) (8 boxes).

The Acc08.116 instalment includes correspondence, research material, publications relating to Indigenous history and issues, and speeches for Matilda House (4 boxes).

The Acc08.145 instalment comprises research material on Ngunnawal family histories and sources in relation to the Ngambri (Kamberrai), Pajong and Wallabalooa. There is also correspondence, copies of birth, death and marriage records, articles and notes (2 boxes).

The Acc09.153 instalment includes research notes, publications, press clippings, ephemera and correspondence relating to the Ngambri people, and to Pajong and Wallabalooa families at Pudman and Blakeney Creeks (2 boxes).

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn168948).

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Ann Jackson-Nakano, National Library of Australia, [class number, box number and series and/or file number]'.

Finding Aid Source(s)

Please note: This finding aid may comprise or contain descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.

Collection Retrieval Advice

Please note: each consignment in this collection has a separate box number sequence (i.e. there are multiple Box 1's). Please cite the relevant Class number as well as the Box number when requesting retrieval of material from the collection.

Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice

Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this collection may contain names, recordings and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive.

Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions within these works which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.

Item Descriptions

Class MS 9154. Original Consignment

Comprises the "Application by Nurri Arnold Williams on behalf of the Ngunnawal people for a determination of native title for land in the Australian Capital Territory". The applicant's submissions and evidence includes information prepared on behalf of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council: 1. Ngunnawal native title claim historical overview, a selection of primary sources for Namadgi and the Ngunnawal, and Ngunnawal genealogies by Ann Jackson-Nakano. 2. Statement of evidence of the claimant, Nurri Arnold Williams. 3. Archaeological overview of Namadgi and other areas included in the submission by Steven Avery. The collection also includes Ann Jackson-Nakano's thesis.

Contained in 1 folio box.

Class MS Acc99.076. Consignment Added 1999

Comprises articles, 1978-1979, photographs and photograph albums, magazines, booklets, notebooks, research material, drafts, and other papers including personal papers from Jackson-Nakano's time in Japan.

Contained in 8 cartons + 1 folio box.

Class MS Acc00.138. Consignment Added 2000

Comprises further papers.

Contained in 1 box.

Class MS Acc07.152. Consignment Added 2007

Comprises correspondence, research material, media clippings and publications relating to indigenous history and issues. In addition, there is a copy of Jackson-Nakano's book Ngambri ancestral names: for geographical places and features in the Australian Capital Territory and surrounds (2005).

Contained in 8 boxes.

Copies of books in series Tales from Ngambri history; correspondence, 2002-2003 (File) - Box 1

Native title; background materials to Wik case (File) - Box 2

Aboriginal public policy lecture readings, ANU; issues of Staff news (Dept of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs) 1990-1991; media clippings bound in 1995 Global Cultural Diversity Conference handout; issues of Migration and extracts from other journals, 1985-1996 (File) - Box 3

Women and native title research, AIATSIS, 1997 (File) - Box 4

Ngambri ancestral names for geographical places and features in the A.C.T. and surrounds, 2005-2006 (File) - Box 5

Pajong Wallaballooa Weereewaa history series, volume 2 (File) - Box 6

Well meaning white feller typescript (File) - Box 7

The Kamberri (Weereewaa history series, volume 1), 2001-2002 (File) - Box 8

Class MS Acc08.116. Consignment Added 2008 (1)

Comprises correspondence, research material, publications relating to indigenous history and issues, and speeches for Matilda House.

Contained in 4 boxes.

Death and resurrection of the Ngunnawal - a living history (File) - Box 1

Search for truth in our community histories, published in Independent Education 2001 (File) - Box 1

Ngambri display/research - shelved due to controversy re. Ngunnawal (File) - Box 1

Tales from Ngambri history - children's books - AJN with kids to elders 2004 (grant from ACT Education) (File) - Box 1

The Kamberri and the Pajong + launches (File) - Box 1

Aboriginal issues - general (File) - Box 1

Various speeches for Matilda House by AJN (File) - Box 1

Research materials for Dave Johnston for Point Nepean etc (File) - Box 1

Wallabalooa and Burrowa projects with Eric Bell, 2003-2004 (File) - Box 2

Grants etc (File) - Box 2

Brochures on Indigenous Australia (File) - Box 2

National Library of Australia workshops etc (File) - Box 2

Queanbeyan Age - Canberra - on Reconciliation history series, 1999-2000 (File) - Box 3

National indigenous literacy and numeracy strategies, 2000-2001 (File) - Box 3

Trackin' Andy drafts - with Eric Bell (NSW Heritage grant) - not final, 2002-2008 (File) - Box 3

Aboriginal art - MS for children's book with Margo Neill, 2003 (File) - Box 3

Projects/editing for AIATSIS, National Museum fo Australia - TSI Book edit by AJN, 2003 (File) - Box 3

National Library of Australia - Aboriginal Photos - project, 2001 (File) - Box 3

Inaugural regional Aboriginal studies workshop for teachers, 2001 (File) - Box 3

Research b/g on Aboriginal research for Morya and Melbourne for Dave Johnston, 2005 (File) - Box 3

Wallanbotooa (Yass) (File) - Box 4

Thesis - Masters - Death and Resurrection of the Ngunnawal - a living history (File) - Box 4

Harold White Fellowship notes etc on Ngunnawal (File) - Box 4

Class MS Acc08.145. Consignment Added 2008 (2)

Comprises research material on Ngunnawal family histories and sources in relation to the Ngambri (Kamberrai), Pajong and Wallabalooa. There is also correspondence, copies of birth, death and marriage records, articles and notes.

Contained in 2 boxes.

Class MS Acc09.153. Consignment Added 2009

Comprises research notes, publications, press clippings, ephemera and correspondence relating to the Ngambri people, and to Pajong and Wallabalooa families at Pudman and Blakeney Creeks.

Contained in 2 boxes.

Series. "Ngambri files #2"

DETYA Brief - National Indigenous English Literacy and Numeracy Strategy - Ambassador Programme, 2000 (File) - Box 1
National Indigenous Literacy and Numeracy Strategy - communication strategy, 2000 (File) - Box 1
Introduction to AIATSIS etc ; Indigenous Australia Today, 1994 (File) - Box 1
Ngambri - communications - [Shane Mortimer] is NTBT; also communications from Laura Wilson, Melbourne, 2008 (File) - Box 1

Both Shane and Laura are Ngambri descendants

Matilda House - 'It's Gold for Canberra's Crop' - Canberra Sunday Times 12/3/2006; also includes successful ACT Heritage grants 2004-05 featuring Paul House's research on the Uriarra Heritage trail - a Ngambri site of significance, 2004-2006 (File) - Box 1
Ngambri banners - supported by various sponsors, 2006 (File) - Box 1
Ngambri Ancestral Names - launch, 2005 (File) - Box 1
Ngambri Ancestral Names, 2005 (File) - Box 1
Ngambri Ancestral Names - ACT Heritage Grant - HG05/48 - stage 1, 2005 (File) - Box 1
Aboriginal Place Names - Old and New - Conference - Geoscience building, 2005 (File) - Box 1
Aboriginal activities - the Ngambri - final launched by Governor-General, 2004-2005 (File) - Box 1

Includes early version of The Kamberri by Ann Jackon-Nakano (cover only) c. 2004 ; request on behalf of Matilda and Paul House to address the ACT Legislative Assembly re Ngambri provenance, 12 May 2005

Jon Stanhope - ACT Government reports on Achivements in Aboriginal and TSI affairs in ACT, 2004 (File) - Box 1
Ngambri Geographical Naming Project, 2003 (File) - Box 1
Contracts for ACT Govt - Ngambri - Betty Homer visit, 2003 (File) - Box 1
Indigenous Perspectives for Core Curriculum subjects - early proposals, 2001 (File) - Box 1
Death and Resurrection of the Ngunnawal - a living history by Ann Jackson-Nakano, 1994 (File) - Box 1
Early Days re. the Ngunnawal in Canberra region, 1992-1993 (File) - Box 1
Ngambri and Ngurmal families - Walgalu language (File) - Box 1
3 envelopes (not individually listed) (File) - Box 1

NOT AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH UNTIL 2030.

Series. "Pajong and Wallabalooa families at Pudman and Blakeney Creeks #2"

The Pajong and Wallabalooa: a history of Aboriginal farming families at Blakney and Pudman Creeks - Aboriginal History Monograph 9 - Weereewaa History Series Vol. 2, 2002 (File) - Box 2

2 copies, signed by author

Ancestral lines of Don and Ruth Bell-Carroll, 2002 (File) - Box 2
Bell, John (Jack) - Gunning district (and descendants) (File) - Box 2
Benton family - Goulburn/Gunning/Yass (File) - Box 2
Correspondence - Aboriginal issues - Ngunnawal etc, 1992-2003 (File) - Box 2
Darug and Gundungurra Story - by Dianne Johnson, 2003 (File) - Box 2
Early communications with Pajong (?) and Wallabalooa descendants, 1999-2005 (File) - Box 2
Duncan family (Ted, Cora, Evelyn and co), 2004 (File) - Box 2
Gunning and District Historical Society - Rethinking history in the Gunning region, 2004 (File) - Box 2
Hickey family - Pajong and Wallabalooa (File) - Box 2
Maps - contructing an empire - the use of maps in the dispossession and repossession of indigenous culture, 1997 (File) - Box 2
Merritt family - Yass/Jerrawa (File) - Box 2
"Ngunnawal" history series (File) - Box 2
Ngunnawal history - Yass and Boorowa - early materials (File) - Box 2
Pudman - emails between AJN and Wayne Booth (following reunion), 2003 (File) - Box 2
Russell, William - Aboriginal farming families around Blakney and Pudman Creeks (File) - Box 2
Returning to Pudman Creek - examining archaeological and more recent sites, 2008 (File) - Box 2
Russell family, 2 - see also Pajong and Wallabalooa by AJN (File) - Box 2
Edward (Ned) Wedge - white progenitor of Aborginal Wedge family (File) - Box 2
Wedge, Henry (Harry) and descendants - Yass/Boorowa (File) - Box 2

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