Hobbles Nigini Summary

“Hobbles Daniyeri on Captain Cook, speaking with the ethnographer, Deborah Bird Rose, in 1982” an extract and dictation of Hobbles Daniyeri which was recorded by anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose in 1982. Hobbles Daniyeri was a Northern Territory Aboriginal elder who reflected on the Indigenous opinions on the development of colonisation. The Colonisation commenced with the arrival of Caption James Cook at Sydney Cove in 1788 and has increasingly been described as disrupting the traditional Aboriginal lifestyle. Daniyeri describes and uses Captain Cook as the “Everyman” invader within his dictation to help define the reactions of the Indigenous people towards the colonisation. Hobbles expresses the colonisation as being filled with injustice