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Eileen Cummings
Born1943
Arnhem Land

Eileen Cummings (born 1943)[1] is a teacher, policy and liaison officer and Indigenous leader in the Northern Territory of Australia.[2] She is a member of the Rembarrnga Ngalakan ethnic groups.[3] She is a member of the 'Stolen Generation' and is an activist for living members of that group.

Early life

Eileen Cummings was born in Arnhem Land in the Barunga-Wugularr region where she lived with her mother, Florrie Lindsay and her mother's husband, Chuckerduck.[4] She is a member of the 'Stolen Generation' having been removed from her family as a four-and-a-half year old from a Mainoru Station in central Arnhem Land in 1949.[5][6] At first, she related that she was excited to be going for a ride when a red truck came to pick her up without her mother's knowledge, but then she started to miss her mother and cry after they left Mainoru.[4] She was taken to Maranboy Police Station and then lived at Croker Island.[7] Her name was changed and she was taught to be ashamed of her Aboriginal identity while growing up in the institution.[8] Cummings lived at the institution until she was fifteen, and then stayed in a foster home in Darwin until she was eighteen.[9] When she was an adult, she returned to see her mother, Lindsay.[10]

Career

Cummings was the first Indigenous person in the Northern Territory to qualify as a pre-school teacher.[2] She also worked as a policy adviser to the Northern Territory Chief Minister in the Office of Women's Policies where she gave advice on women's issues.[11][9] She coordinated the consultation in the development of the Aboriginal Family Violence Strategy and was a co-author.[2][12]

In the 2013 Federal Election, Cummings was unsuccessful as Australian First Nations Political Party candidate for the Division of Solomon in the House of Representatives.[13][14]

She is the Chairperson of the Northern Territory Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation.[15][16] She works to bring compensation to those who are part of the Stolen Generation and on Sorry Day, 2017, filed a case with the NT Stolen Generations organization against the federal government.[17]

She is a University Fellow of Charles Darwin University.[18]

References

Citations

  1. ^ Bauman, Toni; Wells, Samantha; Wells, Julie Therese (2006). Aboriginal Darwin: A Guide to Exploring Important Sites of the Past & Present. Aboriginal Studies Press. p. 39. ISBN 9780855754464.
  2. ^ a b c "Eileen Cummings" (Document). Northern Territory Library. hdl:10070/218118.
  3. ^ "13th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect". Australian Institute of Criminology. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  4. ^ a b Smith 2004, p. 89.
  5. ^ "Australia's 'Stolen Generations' Tell Their Stories". The New York Times. 24 May 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  6. ^ McLean, Greg (27 May 2007). "No Celebration for Stolen Generation". Northern Territory News. Retrieved 5 October 2017 – via EBSCOhost.
  7. ^ Kevin, Lindt (13 February 2008). "'Long Journey' to national apology". ABC News. The World Today. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  8. ^ Smith 2004, p. 90-91.
  9. ^ a b Smith 2004, p. 101.
  10. ^ Smith 2004, p. 98.
  11. ^ Alia, Valerie (15 July 2013). The New Media Nation: Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication. Berghahn Books. p. 49. ISBN 9780857454096.
  12. ^ Smith 2004, p. 101-102.
  13. ^ "Eileen Cummings". AFNPP. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  14. ^ "Solomon - Australia Votes | Federal Election 2013 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC News. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  15. ^ "NTSGAC". Northern Territory Stolen Generation Aboriginal Corporation. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  16. ^ James, Felicity (24 April 2017). "Stolen Generations welcome planned museum in Darwin". ABC News. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  17. ^ Dias, Avani (26 May 2017). "NT Stolen Generation file case for compensation from Federal Government". ABC News. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  18. ^ "Eileen Cummings". Charles Darwin University. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

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