On 1 December 2019, over one hundred Aboriginal nations performed ancestral and creation dances in synchrony across the Australian continent. One of the communities that danced was the Anaiwan nation from the north-eastern region of New South Wales, Australia. Since 2014 I have been working with Anaiwan people in a collaborative activist research project, creating and maintaining an Aboriginal community garden on the fringes of my hometown of Armidale as a site for land reclamation and decolonising, multispecies research. The community garden is adjacent to the site of the old East Armidale Aboriginal Reserve, where over one hundred dispossessed Aboriginal people were forced to live on the municipal town garbage depot in the mid-twentieth century. This paper positions both the Nation Dance 2019 movement, and the Armidale Aboriginal Community Garden, as rhythmic events that activate Aboriginal Law and sovereignty that is held enduring in the land but that has been buried alive by the settler-colonial state. Focusing on the tensions between deep Indigenous ancestral temporality and colonial territoriality, I argue that the emergence of the Anthropocene reveals a dangerous dissonance between the rhythms of Aboriginal Law patterned through present-day Australian environments and the grid-based structures of colonial governance imposed upon them.

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法律的韵律：原住民法学与人类世

2019 年 12 月 1 日，100 多个原住民民族在澳大利亚大陆同步表演了祖传和创世舞蹈。跳舞的社区之一是来自澳大利亚新南威尔士州东北部地区的 Anaiwan 民族。自 2014 年以来，我一直在与 Anaiwan 人合作开展一个激进主义研究项目，在我家乡阿米代尔的边缘创建和维护一个土著社区花园，作为土地开垦和非殖民化、多物种研究的场所。社区花园毗邻旧东阿米代尔原住民保护区，20 世纪中叶，一百多位流离失所的原住民被迫住在市政城镇垃圾场。本文定位了 Nation Dance 2019 运动，和阿米代尔土著社区花园，作为有节奏的事件，激活土著法律和主权，这些法律和主权在这片土地上经久不衰，但已被定居者殖民国家活埋。着眼于深刻的土著祖先时间性和殖民领土之间的紧张关系，我认为人类世的出现揭示了以当今澳大利亚环境为模式的土著法律节奏与强加于他们的基于网格的殖民治理结构之间的危险不和谐.