Rose writes, “For Yarralin people it is inconceivable that the current state of affairs, their oppression under Captain Cook’s law, will continue indefinitely. It is not just that they do not want it to; it is that it cannot…Captain Cook’s law defies the ultimate goal of maintaining life-giving systems…such defiance cannot have a long-term future” (78). Under the laws of The Dreaming, such imbalance in power cannot exist “indefinitely”; therefore, it becomes logical to wait until there is a time when balance is returned. However, Europeans characterize this waiting as docility. Due to the role egalitarianism and non-violence has in Aboriginal Australian and Polynesian societies; the Europeans could begin to establish a claim to the land without much violent resistance. There was backlash within native communities, but the trade goods offered by the European colonists quelled much of the
Rose writes, “For Yarralin people it is inconceivable that the current state of affairs, their oppression under Captain Cook’s law, will continue indefinitely. It is not just that they do not want it to; it is that it cannot…Captain Cook’s law defies the ultimate goal of maintaining life-giving systems…such defiance cannot have a long-term future” (78). Under the laws of The Dreaming, such imbalance in power cannot exist “indefinitely”; therefore, it becomes logical to wait until there is a time when balance is returned. However, Europeans characterize this waiting as docility. Due to the role egalitarianism and non-violence has in Aboriginal Australian and Polynesian societies; the Europeans could begin to establish a claim to the land without much violent resistance. There was backlash within native communities, but the trade goods offered by the European colonists quelled much of the