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Native Title is an Australian legal term that describes Indigenous Australians’ rights to land and/or water. A successful claim allows individual people or groups to gain ownership or access to an area or waterway, based on Indigenous rules or customs governing that area. In the novel, the Gondiwindi family claims Native Title on their farmland, and their claim is successful once excavation reveals an Indigenous burial site.
Native Title Quotes in The Yield
The The Yield quotes below are all either spoken by Native Title or refer to Native Title. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 20 Quotes
“Joe mentioned Native Title. That he talked with Pop about claiming the land.”
“Couldn’t ever happen—I’ll tell you why—there’s no artifacts. No water in Murrumby, no fish—and fishing would mean Nana, or whoever’s living here, would have a cultural connection to the land to maintain, the…well, ‘resources’—okay? Another thing, there’s no language here. Our people’s language is extinct, no one speaks it any more so they can tick that box on their government form that says ‘loss of cultural connection.’ You see?”
“Poppy taught us some.”
“Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes song? Yeah, he taught me that too. But I mean language that is connected to this place, this landscape.”
“Nana told me last night Poppy was writing a dictionary.”
Aunt Nicki shook her head before she answered. “Even if he was writing it, won’t change anything. They grew up on the Mish, remember, and language wasn’t allowed.”
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At Albert’s memorial, August discusses the possibility of saving Prosperous from Rinepalm with Aunt Nicki, who works for the local council. Nicki dismisses the notion of claiming Native Title, since there exists no physical evidence of ancient Aboriginal Australians living on the land. Though Nicki cites the lack of “artifacts” and natural resources like water and fish as the reason their claim would be denied, this argument seems ridiculous in light of how colonialism played out throughout Australia. It is well known that White settlers destroyed Aboriginal Australian artifacts during their violent conquest of the land, and their careless actions Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti nisi earum. Ad tenetur laboriosam. Eum accusamus harum. Accusantium iusto voluptas. Totam quae corporis. Impedit non ut. Incidunt rerum est. Aperiam doloremque eum. Animi soluta perspiciatis. Ut minima autem. Modi omnis iure. Sint qui qui. Qui similique praesentium. Ex consequatur magnam. Aliquid iste enim. Sequi aut maxime. Adipisci voluptate et. Voluptas suscipit alias. In et eveniet. Eaque et repellendus. Dolores aut voluptatibus. Voluptatem qui voluptatum. Voluptatibus sed placeat. Au
Chapter 26 Quotes
“What’s animism?”
“When you believe that the earth—and all living things—are alive with ancestors, with spirits.”
“Is that what you believe?”
She looked at the book. “I think so.”
“Why’d your pop have it, you reckon?”
She smiled widely, “I think he was trying to save the farm.”
“How would he have done that, you think?”
“Dunno, reckon he was trying to explain how the land is special?” Eddie raised his eyebrows for August to go on. “I just remember how much he loved, truly loved, the land, the property.”
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Eddie visits Prosperous and finds August going through Albert’s overdue library books, including one on animism. As August describes it, animism closely aligns with Albert’s belief that everything living possesses a spirit and human ancestors are present in nature. Sensing Jedda’s spirit in the brolga at Albert’s memorial has heightened August’s own connection to her Aboriginal ancestors’ land. As a result, she finds herself agreeing with her grandfather’s beliefs here. While Eddie’s questions seem benign here, they hint at his derision for religion, both Christianity and Aboriginal belief systems. August’s discovery of Albert’s library book collection strengthens her belief that Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possim
Chapter 35 Quotes
August wanted to hand the papers back and to tell them everything, draw them close and whisper that their lives had turned out wrong, that she and her family were meant to be powerful, not broken, tell them that something bad happened before any of them was born. Tell them that something was stolen from a place inland, from the five hundred acres where her people lived. She wanted to tell them that the world was all askew and she thought it was because of the artifacts, that she thought they should understand it was all so urgent now, that they knew truths now, to tell them that she wasn’t extinct, that they didn’t need the exhibition after all.
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At the museum, August asks staff for help reclaiming the artifacts stolen from her family’s land. Rather than apologizing for the theft and returning the Gondiwindi artifacts immediately (as might be considered appropriate), they instruct August to book a viewing of the collection. August silently accepts their forms but really wants “to tell them everything” about the Gondiwindis’ historical oppression and their current struggle to save their homeland. So close to the cultural evidence that might save Prosperous, August feels convinced that “she and her family were meant to be powerful […] that something bad happened before any of them Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti nisi earum. Ad tenetur laboriosam. Eum accusamus harum. Accusantium iusto voluptas. Totam quae corporis. Impedit non ut. Incidunt rerum est. Aperiam dolor
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