English 10 In My blood it runs Key Quotes

"The History we were told at home is in Language and it's about the Aboriginies, But the one back at school that was for white people"

White version of history - Dujuan’s perspective

"Welfare, they don't treat your kids the right way. They don't know their culture. They don't teach them their culture."

Mistreatment

"When I'm out bush my Ngangkere is straight like a line, but when I'm in town my Ngangkere is wobbly."

Healing powers

"This book is fact"

Book - white version of history

"The story of our country"

White version of history - Collectivism whitewashing

"Claimed his new land"

White colonisation from book

"I don't really understand how it happened."

Dreaming - Teacher misunderstanding

"I'm Glad you can because I find it a bit confusing about the spirit and Dreaming, But we just have to believe it"

Teacher representing lack of Aboriginal cultural understanding

"Is there something wrong with me or something"

Academic problems - Aboriginal people

"The coppers torched him, everybody treated them the same as they treat there enemies"

Dujuan Antey

"You learn how to control your anger, and you learn how to control your life. To stop acting like a little kid when you grow up or when you're a big man."

Dujuan describing the benefits of going out bush

"Dujuan You Need to stop running away"

Megan

"This movie is about me and what I think is stealing kids from their family is wrong"

Dujuan

"Spring Creek our Homeland is like a dream."

Dujuan

"The black way is when you don't have to use a frying pan to cook a fish."

Dujuan

"Welfare don't treat you right these days. They don't think about culture."

"You either end up in a cell or a coffin."

"I wish I had one of those houses."

"How come this mob got a clean house and not us?"

"The white people teached the aboriginals to act like them to be like them."

"White people educate our kids in the way they want them to be educated. But I need them to speak their language so they can carry on their language"

Nana Carol: "Answer in Arrernte"Dujuan: "Can you say it in English"

“What I want is a normal life of just being me. And what I mean by me is, I want to be an Aborigine."

Embracing themself , accepting Aboriginal peoples, and having cultural diversity

Dujuan: "When I'm a man I'm gonna fight for rights for black people. I am going to speak to the Prime Minister. I'm gonna say stop killing aboriginal people."

"Most of the language is lost, some of the culture is lost. I don't even know most of my language."

Nana Carol: "If police see kids walking streets, they write a letter and give it to welfare."

Dujuan: "Me I don't want to get taken away by white people."

Auntie Alexis tells Dujuan that there are two places he'll end up if he doesn't go to school every day a "jail cell or a coffin".

Nana Carol: "I need them to speak their language so that they can carry on their language."

"I was born a little Aboriginal kid."

Identity: Dujuan is proud of his culture by stating that he is a little Aboriginal kid, rather than just a kid, and that he was born that way as though it is who he was meant to be.

"History, in my blood it runs."

Trauma: Dujuan is aware of the mistreatment of his ancestors, even at such a young age, and it has an impact on him and society even years later. Injustice is still very much present in modern society.

Dujuan: "I've been in a paddy wagon four times in a row ... I always feel funny. It's like you're in a little box."

Protest Footage: "We want our ceremony. We want our language. We want

“Our stories told to our children."

Colonisation and dispossession: the white colonisation led to the loss of Aboriginal culture as they want these things back. They want their stories told to children so that they understand their culture/identity, and what unjust treatment their ancestors face.

Dujuan picking Bush medicine. "Heals the sores on the inside."

Identity: the use of natural bush medicine shows their connection to the land, and their beliefs that it can help to heal wounds.

"Before the whole world was made, it was just Aboriginals on Australia."

Identity: highlights the fact that the creation of life and how things came to be was due to the Dreaming, where all living things were either the ancestors themselves, or were made by the ancestors.

Dujuan using his Ngangkere: "If someone makes you mad, you make them sick."

Identity: this demonstrates that the Aboriginals have a strong connection to the land, and they have belief that it has to power to heal people or make people sick.

Nana Carol: "We don't have a school in our homeland."

Dispossession: the Aboriginal children are being deprived of an education. Also, without a school in their homeland, the Aboriginal people are forced to send their children to a school run by white people so they can force their culture onto the children.

"The white people teached the aboriginals to act like them to be like them."

Identity: the Aboriginals lost their culture, such as land and language, as the children were taught to be "more white"

Nana Carol: "I need them to speak their language so that they can carry on their language."

Identity: Nana Carol says that there is a need for the children to speak their native language because otherwise the language will be lost as the schools are not allowing the children to learn or speak their language.

Dujuan after receiving his school report: "is there something wrong with me or something?"

Dispossession: as the Aboriginal children are being deprived of learning their language and about their culture, Dujuan struggles with the other content and receives bad grades, making him feel inadequate

Auntie Alexis tells Dujuan that there are two places he'll end up if he doesn't go to school every day a "jail cell or a coffin".

Trauma: the trauma of the mistreatment of the Aboriginal ancestors still runs within younger generations as Auntie Alexis knows that the white people will not tolerate if Dujuan is uneducated, especially about white culture, and is worried that he will not be able to live his life to the fullest.

Megan: "Welfare don't treat your kids the right way."

Trauma: Aboriginal kids in welfare not getting treated well links back to how the Aboriginal people were treated and stripped of their human rights during colonisation.

Dujuan: "Me I don't want to get taken away by white people."

Trauma: Dujuan is aware that his ancestors were taken away from their land and split up from their families, and this threat still runs present in modern society.

Nana Carol: "If police see kids walking streets, they write a letter and give it to welfare."

Colonisation: police naturally assume that Aboriginal children are causing trouble

stems from unjust colonial beliefs and the whites having more power and control because of their "superiority"

News report: "Successive government policies that push and English only approach mean these language lessons are only 30 minutes a day."

Identity: Aboriginal children are unable to explore their culture or speak their language to carry on that culture as they are forced to speak English and learn about white culture

the children are seen learning about the colonisation of Australia.

Dujuan: "If you finish primary school and then you finish high school then you learn. But I'm a bush kid."

Trauma: Dujuan naturally assumes that he won't be able to learn when he is older because he is Aboriginal and he may not have the same opportunities as white children. He has been brainwashed into thinking that if he does not attend white school, he will not be educated

Megan talking about the threat of welfare payments being suspended because the kids won't stay at school: "A warning has come through. Makes me feel shame. Makes me feel like I'm a bad mother."

Trauma: Demonstrates a cycle where Dujuan rebels against the white education and as a result welfare ignorantly threaten to take away their means of living. Almost covert violence

School principal to Dujuan: "You haven't been very polite to me ... Been out of class nearly every day. You've run away almost every day."

Injustice: Ironic that the principle who is in charge of a school that ignores Dujuan's culture expects to be treated politely

Dujuan on being out and about with his friends: "Cops came put us in a paddy wagon."

Power: Dujuan can't even have fun without being shut down by authorities. Shows a tight grip that the white system has over the lives of First Nations Peoples

Dujuan on running from the police: "I just ranned away to get away. I'll be free."

Justice: The phrase "I'll be free" implies that he is not, which highlights the fact that Indigenous Australians are still dictated and governed by white authorities to the extent of feeling/being metaphorically trapped

Alice Springs is like an "open air jail" (quote from the tall man)

Protest banner: "Kids and country. Not in custody."

Injustice: shows how so many Aboriginal kids are being put into juvenile detention, rather than being in school or living a normal life.

Dujuan: "Spring Creek our homeland is like a dream."

Country is like a paradise, however the word "dream" suggests that Spring Creek is out of reach, as dreams are just figures of our imagination

Dujuan's father Jim Jim: "Most of the language is lost, some of the culture is lost. I don't even know most of my language."

Colonisation: Demonstrates how colonisation has caused a loss of culture. The indigenous community has been white

washed and "led to think" as the white Australians do

Dujuan: "When I'm a man I'm gonna fight for rights for black people. I am going to speak to the Prime Minister. I'm gonna say stop killing aboriginal people."

Trauma: Dujuan knows that the injustice faced by his ancestors is still present and hasn't changed over time, and he knows that nothing will change unless something is done about it.

Dujuan: "What I want is a normal life of just being me. And what I mean by me is, I want to be an Aborigine."

Identity: Dujuan does not want to learn about white or how to speak English, he wants to explore and embrace his heritage and culture. He does not want to grow up into a white culture, he just wants to be an Aboriginal.

Postscript: "At the time of the film, in the Northern Territory 100% of children in juvenile detention were Aboriginal."

"The history that we're told at home is in language and it's about the Aborigines. But the one's back at school is for white people, not the Aboriginals"

Colonisation: The education system is trying to force a white education onto Indigenous children who are not interested in anything but their own culture. As a result, they are threatened by welfare (a cycle)

"The children are being gently led toward our culture...thinking as we do"

Colonisation: Suggests that Indigenous Australians are not thinking or acting in the "right" way. Further demonstrates whitewashing and suggests that the white way of life is the right way of life

Juxtaposition of education now (Dujuan failing) and the archival footage of the past positions the reader to see that nothing has changed

Dujuan driving to Sandy Bore: "If you go out bush, you'll learn to control your anger... learn to control your life"

If you don't go out bush and rely on a white society, you will lose control

Dujuan driving the car symbolises him taking control of his life. Symbolises the desire of First Nations Peoples for self-determination

Dujuan opening the gates symbolises access to Country and culture (language, traditions)

Nana Carol: "Answer in Arrernte"

Dujuan: "Can you say it in English"

Positions viewers to see Nana Carol and other elders as fundamental in educating young First Nations Peoples about culture

Challenging because the best place for culture is Country but they have to live in the city because this is where schools are and not attending school gets you caught up in welfare

Highlights cultural purgatory where he has one foot in cultural education and one foot in white education

Nana Carol: "White people educate our kids in the way they want them to be educated. But I need them to speak their language so they can carry on their language"

Ignorance of white education system

The children are critical to the future and survival of the culture. They must learn it to be able to carry it on

Great Nana MK: "Only the oldest people know these words"

Demonstrates that the culture is dying as elders pass

Megan after seeing Dujuan's school report: "That's so bad, all the E's"

Symbolic of the education system failing Dujuan and more broadly, Indigenous youth that end up incarcerated