Dick-a-Dick
Dick-a-Dick (* in the 19th century , Victoria ; † September 3, 1870 , Ebenezer Mission Station , Victoria) was also traditionally called Djungadjinganook or Jumgumjenanuke . He was later given the name King Richard when he saved three white children from the desert . He was an Australian Aboriginal tracker and cricketer . He belongs to the Aborigines of the tribe of Wotjobaluk that the language of Wergaia in the area of Wimmera in western Victoria speak. He was the member of the first Australian cricket team, which consisted only of Aborigines and played in England in 1868.
In 1864 he helped find three children lost in the bush, Isaac, Jane and Frank Duff. You were missing near Natimuk at the end of the Little Desert for nine days . When the rain had covered the children's tracks after the first big search, the children's father and three Aboriginal trackers, including Dick-a-Dick, successfully searched for the children. The children had survived as seven-year-old Jane Duff carefully looked after everyone. Dick-a-Dick was hailed as a hero and was named King Richard .
Dick-a-Dick had an excellent command of traditional Aboriginal weapons, such as the shield and waddy (a stick about one meter long with an inlaid stone on top). On the cricket tour through England he demonstrated these weapons techniques and his mobility. He urged young men to throw a cricket ball at him from 15 different distances. He was never hit and could dodge up to three balls thrown at the same time without being hit. Furthermore, he was not overtaken once in the required running backwards during the team competition.
After returning from the cricket tour in England, he fell ill and went to his traditional country at the Ebenezer Mission, where he died in this mission station. Before his death, he was Christianized and baptized on July 30, 1870 .
Web links
- Photo of King Richard or Dick-a-Dick - La Trobe Journal, State Library of Victoria
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Martin Flanagan, Jack Kennedy: descendant of Dick-a-Dick , The Age, June 30, 2003. Retrieved February 6, 2010
- ^ Richard Broome, pp 151, Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 , Allen & Unwin, 2005, ISBN 1741145694 , ISBN 9781741145694
- ^ Peter Pierce, The country of lost children: an Australian anxiety , Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0521594405
- ↑ Richard Broome, pp73-74, Aboriginal Australians: black responses to white dominance, 1788-2001 , Allen and Unwin, 3rd edition 2001, ISBN 1865087556 .
- ↑ Ashley Alexander Mallett, pp. 166-167 The black lords of summer: the story of the 1868 aboriginal tour of England and Beyond , University of Queensland Press, 2002, ISBN 0702232629
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dick-a-Dick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Djungadjinganook; Jumgumjenanuke; King Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Aboriginal tracker, cricketer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Victoria |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 1870 |
| Place of death | Ebenezer Mission Station , Victoria |