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'We die we go to heaven, good people always crackney in heaven.' 'Crackney' means to 'sit down'. Druemerterpunner lived through the first generation of colonial disruption in lutruwita/Tasmania. He expresses the interplay of his language with the colonists' English and the different mythologies in dialogue between them. Powerful mythologies continue to shape how we speak of the past and imagine our future.

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'We die we go to heaven, good people always crackney in heaven.' 'Crackney' means to 'sit down'. Druemerterpunner lived through the first generation of colonial disruption in lutruwita/Tasmania. He expresses the interplay of his language with the colonists' English and the different mythologies in dialogue between them. Powerful mythologies continue to shape how we speak of the past and imagine our future.
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GRANT FINLAY has worked in different roles with Tasmanian Aboriginal people since 1995. He has worked with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people creating private and public ceremonies that express foundational beliefs about life and death, past trauma and future hopes. He has a PhD in Aboriginal Studies from the University of Tasmania.