‘Ancient’ Spears ‘Stolen’ by Captain Cook RETURNED!

These spears shown onscreen are known as the “Gweagal spears”. They’re a collection made up of three fishing spears and one hunting spear. They look like any other spear, I suppose, except according to the Australian media, these are the proceeds of crime! Not in that they killed animals, but rather they were stolen, by Captain Cook! “We used them as back scratchers.”
But as I said, they were stolen! “Ancient spears handed back”. I think they’re misusing the word ‘ancient’, but let’s run with it. “More than 250 years after they were first taken, four spears, stolen by Captain James Cook and his crew after they arrived at Botany Bay, have been repatriated to their traditional owners.”
“'Emotional moment' as spears taken by Captain Cook are returned to Indigenous community. Four spears stolen by Captain James Cook!” Even Kids News got in on the action, although they used the more euphemistic term “taken without permission”. Perhaps we should change his name to Captain James Crook. “I’m nought but a petty thief!” Of course, I jest.
The spears were presented to Cambridge University’s Trinity College in 1771 by Lord Sandwich, the British naval chief at the time, with the spears being held at the college’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology since the early 20th century. Last year, the museum agreed to return the spears to the La Perouse Aboriginal Community, who are apparently the direct descendants of the Gweagal who crafted the spears 254 years ago.
I find it deeply ironic that if these spears weren’t “stolen”, and I use that term loosely, in the 18th century, these objects wouldn’t be around today. If these spears hadn’t been taken, they wouldn’t exist anymore. Unlike many artefacts, these were just regular tools that would have been used and then discarded when they broke. It was only once they were removed from Australia that they became somewhat precious. Am I wrong in that assessment?
Cook, a British naval lieutenant at the time, travelled to New Holland (Australia) on the HMB Endeavour (His Majesty’s Bark). He was accompanied by botanist Joseph Banks, who kept a journal. This journal can be viewed online. After arriving at Botany Bay on 28 April 1770, he described the animosity between the local inhabitants and the landing party.
After reading the journal, in my reckoning, the British essentially confiscated the spears that were being thrown at them. If you wish to call that stealing, I suppose you could, but clearly the locals were not exactly friendly towards the landing party. I’m not saying they had to be, but of course, if you’re aggressive towards others, expect them to be aggressive back. And that’s pretty much what happened, although the landing party did still try to be friendly by giving the people some gifts.
Captain Cook also kept a journal, which you can view online as well. He described how after giving the local people cloth, they “left it carelessly upon the Sea beach and in the Woods, as a thing they had no manner of use for; in short, they seem’d to set no Value upon anything we gave them, nor would they ever part with anything of their own for any one Article we could offer them.”
Look, I don’t know if what Captain Cook wrote is 100% accurate, I’m just reading it. But this is the evidence we have. The media play up the idea of stolen spears, but to me it sounds like the Europeans were trying to be nice, but the local people were not having it, and consequently their spears were confiscated. The gifts the Europeans did give, weren’t welcome and were just left to lie on the beach.
There are lots of people acting like these spears were significant cultural artefacts that were heartlessly stolen. But that’s glorifying, or romanticising what they actually were. These were hunting tools and had no significance beyond their purpose at that time. What happened to virtually all the other spears from that same time period? They were probably used and then burnt. The preservation is what has given these spears value and cultural significance. Some might argue that the people who preserved them are the rightful owners.
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[@Machete90210]

Captain Cook just called. He wants Australia back to the way it was before all this woke nonsense.

[@HansReichhardtsohn]

So the way it was before the First Fleet arrived?

[@turtle-frogs]

The fishing would be great.😂🤠​@@HansReichhardtsohn

[@markandmellwhiteley7995]

@@HansReichhardtsohn naa there were no goon bags back then LOL

[@HansReichhardtsohn]

@@markandmellwhiteley7995 WTF does Captain Cook have to do with goon bags? The woke nonsense began with Governor Arthur's White man justice Proclamation to the Aborigines. Have a look at that woke nonsense.

[@derekmottley3656]

​@@HansReichhardtsohn I think you know exactly what he means regarding goon bags.😉

[@crosseyedone7960]

On behalf of the Good Captain I demand the return of the cloth and beads, immediately!

[@Dengtui_01]

Here here!

[@alexspielberg4090]

Hear, hear !!!

[@davidstokes8441]

Absolutely!

[@rge24491]

The beads are currently held by the Carlton Brewery as they were promptly traded for beer.

[@glennllewellyn7369]

I want back my air rifle they stole from me when I was 14. Break and enter.

[@robh8890]

They should be thanking the British for keeping them in such good condition all these years. Fact is the spears would simply not exist otherwise. This is an utter joke.

[@dsndicmsa7141]

Have the same thing with Maori shrunken heads here in NZ, the first were traded for scraps of linen, then they stared beheading slaves and making them as a tradeable item.... Now in the 21st century the claim is made that they were sacred and stolen.

[@PrimalEater]

You are an utter joke for believing this story. I bet you own a tesla

[@danielsonn3046]

Lmao BS since European colonisation aboriginal have suffered they have less full bloods today then there was before colonisation what bs

[@shaneclarence6696]

White suppremist ideology

[@TravisHi_YT]

It's strange that these historical items only become significant once one culture tries to find and actively preserve them for future generations. These spears would have been lost or destroyed by the original "owners", like countless many other historical artefacts around the world. Where are all the other "culturally significant spears" that have been preserved by the original owners? Were they actively destroying their sacred artefacts?

[@spiritfingers6897]

I like how Aboriginals act like no one was here when they invaded

[@shaneclarence6696]

Prove your mouth I'll wait. There's absolutely no credible information that supports your stupid mouth

[@briananderson7285]

I want my stolen TAXES BACK .

[@samhunt9380]

Especially those that have gone towards giving black fellas a lazy life....

[@TomasFunes-rt8rd]

@@samhunt9380 And the lost revenue from blacks being given half the revenue of mines on "their" land....

[@PrimalEater]

Your tax money “ the little laughable amount you pay” hardy covers your free healthcare.

[@derekgiandolfi39]

I agree..but I was a property manager up here in the panhandle of Florida.Think below Alabama..alot of people living on section 8 and welfare.. all races and colors..but definitely more than the national average are way tanner than me and I am Sicilian

[@PrimalEater]

@jodirt69 not a very intelligent bunch on here.

[@captainmanic]

We`ll see them on Gumtree next week in exchange for a flagon

[@shaneclarence6696]

You're a racist fukwit

[@shanevonharten3100]

I suppose after 60 thousand years they would want their most impressive advancements back

[@rods6405]

Thats right sticks that dont come back HahA

[@Lowlife-w3u]

Nazi talk

[@rods6405]

@@Lowlife-w3u Your user name says it all!

[@rustykilt]

Biggest load of BS. This Country was made on the work of Discovers like Captain Cook. The more the push fo ongoing Aboriginal compensation, as if the billions spent on the Aboriginal industry is not enough,, the greater will become the division. The guilt trip has to end.

[@karlm9584]

The kids aren't taught about the explorers anymore. I guess that's in preparation for renaming all the places named after them to something unpronounceable.

[@caldogz90]

Why would it ever end when they can keep using it for their own benefit and get a free ride to be lazy, it’s actually pretty genius of them, who’s really the idiots?

[@caldogz90]

The government knows exactly what’s going on but don’t want to look bad, that’s all it comes down to, they don’t truely care about indigenous people, if they did they’d return the land and we’d go back to where we came from

[@markv1274]

@@karlm9584 If the politicians want to rename places with alphabet soup names, they can do so on one condition: they can't *write* the names of the places. The Roman alphabet (obvious by its name) wasn't invented by the Aborigines. The Aborigines had an oral history. They didn't write *any* words. So, no signs with Aboriginal names. Make all the woke people remember *every single renamed place* and see how long that lasts. They wouldn't be able to do it.

[@B0ombastix]

I’m pretty sure the spears now reside at Cash Converters.

[@Paul-op9oz]

Don't bring a spear to a gun fight.

[@derekmottley3656]

heh !

[@derekmottley3656]

​@neverends3188 👍

[@danielsonn3046]

They were just trying defend their land by invaders

[@derekmottley3656]

@@danielsonn3046 Of course they were ! And how did that work out sir ? 😏

[@danielsonn3046]

@@derekmottley3656 well hundreds of thousands obviously were killed but are you proud of innocent people being.murdered?

[@Hudpix16]

I’m so glad these people’s lives have improved so much upon the return of these old artifacts.

[@TomasFunes-rt8rd]

Yes, the rampant wife bashing and child raping has CEASED now, just like that !!!

[@GlobetruthFU]

And now the traditional owners have stolen 250 land cruisers daily as reparation.

[@TheProcecution]

they also ate the pigmies, they boat people trash, not first inhabitants

[@ooblah10]

​@@TheProcecutionThey ate each other not just the pygmies.

[@TheProcecution]

@@ooblah10 for sure

[@TomasFunes-rt8rd]

@@ooblah10 Anyone doubting this, just look up "Quadrant Online" and search for articles with "cannibalism" or "aboriginal" in the name. Throw "violence" into your search streams too.

[@GlobetruthFU]

@@TheProcecution It's funny how the NQ pygmies never get a mention when indigenies are being talked about. Perhaps they were the real first peoples.

[@pushagainstthezeitgeist4968]

Does this mean that the traditional owners can now return my lawnmower that they stole from my back shed a couple of years back?

[@mickthefisherman1562]

And my sons computer, bottle of scotch and our walkie-talkies

[@harrylo2316]

These items weren't 'stolen' from you. They were appropriated to benefit the disadvantaged. 😂

[@brucemackinnon-k3x]

Cook's log will show how they got these spears. They are of historical curiosity value only. Cook did a better job of preservation than the aboriginals ever did.

[@derekmottley3656]

👍

[@evil17]

They were also evidence of an attempted murder.

[@stusta31]

I can't believe we are not allowed to climb Mt Warning. All this BS has gotta stop.

[@EmceeFuzz]

I climbed this rock when I was 14 Xmas '74. Cyclone post Darwin. One of my most daunting and character building experiences. I am part of that rock. It belongs to nothing and no one. It only shares bits for souls.

[@elgordo9031]

Bloody magic up there. Shame only some people want that magic for themselves.

[@peelypeelmeister6432]

I climbed Mt Warning 11 times, all before dawn and once barefoot. I'm glad I did it when I could.

[@EmceeFuzz]

@@peelypeelmeister6432 wow. That memory will stay with you for eternity. BAREFOOT LEGEND!

[@EmceeFuzz]

@@elgordo9031 mate.....early dawn...parkin the car. Breathing the air. Cedar smell. Dampish. Fresh. Birds. Walk on. Find the chain. Dreaming.

[@margyrowland]

No way would Captain Cook steal the spears. He was a classic Enlightenment man who had respect for indigenous people. He would have swapped them for something he had.

[@evil17]

He did

[@John-kv7jo]

Without colonization Australia would not be what it is today. Thank God for colonization.

[@MrFordAddict]

God didn't colonise Australia the poms did then everyone else followed.

[@TomasFunes-rt8rd]

I often thank British people on YT for colonising my country, when in arguments on colonisation = bad themes...!

[@PrimalEater]

A shithole full of tent cities?

[@glennllewellyn7369]

Thank God we’re not French!

[@audioin9105]

without colonisation, people would continue being eaten and women would continue being mistreated, thats what gets me the most when people try and pander to some romantic notion of them. Welcome to our country where we eat each other and bash the women XD.......I want no part of that country, only Australia

[@roostercogburn1984]

Albo - bringing Australians together. Fool of a boi.

[@stewy2909]

Compare the ancient aboriginals to the ancient Sumerians. One group started a civilisation, the other were aboriginals.

[@derekmottley3656]

😂😂😂😂

[@PrimalEater]

Wow you really hate people don’t you.

[@karlm9584]

Sitchin may hold the answer to that puzzle. If we believe Sitchin, then the Aboriginals are possibly a unique barometer of exactly how far evolution would have progressed "unaided". Ie, not very far.

[@PrimalEater]

@@karlm9584 The fact that you believe in evolution proves how little thought you are capable of. That’s common amongst racists such as yourself.

[@derekmottley3656]

@@PrimalEater People ?

[@gusman37]

What proof they were stolen and not traded with Captain Cook ... Let us ask how much did this cost Australia's taxpayers ?

[@derekmottley3656]

Pallet of Emu beer. Pallet of Jack Daniels Pallet of Brown Muscat flagons Pallet of VB And 5 ltrs of premium unleaded.

[@TomasFunes-rt8rd]

@@derekmottley3656 25 x "dumpers" still good for 2 puffs, off the car park floor.

[@derekmottley3656]

🤷‍♂️

[@jazzysnaps]

Rainbow serpent told them.

[@PrimalEater]

Nothing the measley little amount of tax you pay hardly covers your free healthcare.

[@user-iu4vv6hu7t]

Maybe the Aboriginals could actually do something and make another spear ?

[@HiNickCares]

Don't be silly.

[@alank616]

Fuk that to much work 😂

[@derekmottley3656]

Steal one ey cuz ....

[@srobertson4083]

Nah they just steal everything else. A TV or phone sell for a lot more than a spear.

[@iankearns774]

The modern breed couldn't do that as it would involve work.

[@pietro4772]

Can we please now have the stolen 40 billion per year returned to us tax-paying Australians. Thanks.

[@sno7193]

Your onto it.!!

[@troywallace322]

Spears don't grow on trees 😂

[@danielsonn3046]

You think the actual aboriginals are getting this money no it's the government

[@pietro4772]

@@danielsonn3046 It's mostly going to the melanated elites. Yet the pampered 800,000 are given all they need to live well. I, on the other hand, am treated as a second class citizen as I am expected to work and pay taxes. We have some of the highest tax rates in the world.

[@danielsonn3046]

@@pietro4772 they get.the same Centrelink payment rate as everyone else unless they are on abstudy and they also pay taxes too if they work

[@benkeyte8187]

How have they been returned to their owners? Theyve been dead for 250 years... can someone give me everything ever stolen from my ancestors?

[@longdewei]

Storage costs for 40-50 spears over 250 years with compound interest has been calculated as $51,098,323.55. I hope they can come up with cash.

[@davegardiner6271]

Weren't they documented as being collected from an abandoned campsite? So they should say thank you for preserving the spears for 250 years....

[@iankearns774]

No thank you's, just pay the storage costs. That will be fine.

[@justinm2697]

So..... they got their spears back. Great! Are we even now?

[@iankearns774]

I think so, yeah.

[@brycedunn8059]

Not until we get our cloth back.

[@PrimalEater]

This is media not Indigenous people shit for brains.

[@stephenbachman132]

Yeah we were even about 30 years ago or so maybe before. They are just milking it.

[@PrimalEater]

@@stephenbachman132 Yes the Indigenous people are so wealthy aren’t they.

[@fyiaustralia9686]

So now it's the media whingeing about aboriginal artefacts - not the natives themselves?

[@PrimalEater]

That’s all this guy does he’s actually media. He’s here to hide how much money is going overseas on Aboriginal land with renewables shhhhh.

[@TravisHi_YT]

Stirring the pot, divide and conquer.

[@paulmarshall248]

just some fake aboriginal journalist making up a story

[@wildtony79]

Note the distinct lack of dot art on these spears.

[@guysmiley4872]

The most honest and factual description of the reality of what happened and what the actual events and people were like…. Cannibals who ate there own

[@jetnavigator]

The sad decline of this country...

[@bundariau874]

I guess the spears can now be placed with all the other artifacts in the Aboriginal have collected over the centuries in their great museum.... Oh wait.

[@derekmottley3656]

lol

[@TravisHi_YT]

My thoughts exactly, why are they so desperate to have them back? Are they going to make a museum for them here and charge for entry?

[@trevcoad2088]

Had tears in my eyes. Took off running and left the kids to defend for themselves.

[@scottydees2748]

Ate their own children, gives a whole new meaning to survival day.

[@fredbear-sf9st]

How do we know they weren’t given to him? We don’t. To assume they were stolen is a lie.

[@PrimalEater]

Like that guy that stabbed people in Sydney without any blood or evidence. You are starting to have what’s called a thought.

[@evil17]

Maybe he took them as evidence in the case of attempted murder.

[@PrimalEater]

@@evil17 You think too much about nothing.

[@gdaycampers]

read the diary. They went into their shelter and stole them.

[@noelgibson5956]

The spears were manufactured in one of these indigenous towns Bruce Pascoe tells us about...

[@mickthefisherman1562]

In the shade of a grain silo.🤪

[@BCl-dn4gn]

😂😂😂

[@grellis6483]

It's curious why Marcia Langton doesn't agitate for a return of the traditional way aboriginal men treated women.

[@Lowlife-w3u]

Alot of white women getting killed by white men lately in the news.

[@deanpd3402]

Not so, 'welcome to country', back then.

[@alanbrooke144]

So when are the local aboriginal people of La Parouse going to return the stolen small shot to the Royal Navy?

[@sno7193]

You know it doesn't work that way.

[@peterlast3200]

They'll probably trade them in at La Perouse bottle shop for a flaggon of wine and it will be on again in 250 years.

[@paulnewell927]

You are correct. They had no museum, no lasting headstones, no flags. They had no thought of the future, of preserving spears for their decendants. I believe that in their culture, if one saw a canoe or a spear not being at that moment used, they could "borrow" it and leave it where ever they were finished with it.

[@peterlast3200]

Maybe the traditional people can give back the tax money to the traditional owners.

[@Typhanos]

lost ancient advanced aboriginal technology ...

[@PrimalEater]

I bet you own a tesla

[@baddudecornpop7328]

What secrets might this remarkable technology hold? What can we learn from it? What wonders might these spears unlock?

[@PrimalEater]

@@baddudecornpop7328 you can’t learn because you’re brainwashed by the govt.

[@julimaynes2193]

I have read elsewhere they were given.Is there proof they were stolen..

[@derekmottley3656]

lol.... Stolen is the narrative....😊

[@tinkingtinking2134]

​@@derekmottley3656absolutely

[@EternalWarrior1988]

You just know the same people saying these weapons were stolen are the same people who demand every Australian be disarmed

[@garybrodziak2196]

Stephen Clarke stole my car in 1976 and sold it and I want it back - that was a lovely welcome to country....

[@evabyrne-kr1fz]

They covert everything we have these days.

[@Mendalay]

It’s strange that these stayed in good condition but the towns and villages the aboriginals built, according to Professor Bruce Pascoe, are nowhere to be seen 🤔

[@derekmottley3656]

THE RAINBOW SERPENT... 😱

[@iankearns774]

Even New Zealand has ancient stone walls that are obviously man made. Nothing has ever been found here other than the stuff in Gympie which looks pretty fake.

[@karlm9584]

SsssSssSsSsSsSSsSSsss....

[@davemanning6424]

Don't worry , Bruce Pascoe is working on a journal of Aboriginal architecture as we speak !

[@derekmottley3656]

@@davemanning6424 He needn't worry about it... Must have taken the abbo's a millennium to build Ayres Rock at the rate they developed Australia ....

[@gerrycooper56]

If someone throws a spear at you , and you keep it then is it stolen?

[@PrimalEater]

Yes just like the land you stole convict.

[@gerrycooper56]

@@PrimalEater but, but aboriginals never owned the land, they were custodians and custody changed in 1788.

[@Maza675]

​​@@PrimalEaterif he is a convict descendant then his ancestor was brought here in chains against his will. Also if he is still a 'convict' because one ancestor generations back, then pretty much all aboriginals today are criminals and convicts for their previous generations crimes up to the present by your logic

[@evil17]

Actually it should be evidence in an attempted murder trial

[@PrimalEater]

@@evil17 It was and Cook was found guilty.

[@playasurf1000]

Those spears wouldn't exist today if the english didn't preserve them

[@blackprince4074]

Funny that because when I was in Primary School in the 1950's, we were taught, that when Captain Cook's landing party arrived they traded/swapped items with the Aborigine's. Captain Cook was if I may say was the greatest explorer in our time, sailing unchartered waters and land by the stars and his mechanical instruments. No electronic navigation satellite guidance, just maths and the stars, no menu log or pizza delivery or water purifiers, Captain Cook I salute you. Now How about the ELGIN Marbles be returned to Greece? because they were stolen.

[@Matt123a]

My car was stolen by a mob of diverse gentlemen, but I ain't expecting any media, action groups, or apologies. But I wouldn't be adverse to a treaty, compensation, and a welcome to *_my_* country everytime any of their people visit a bottleshop.

[@paulmarshall248]

and you won't get that back..

[@d00mg1rl]

They could have been given to him

[@nikitaw1982]

swapped for a goon bag.

[@derekmottley3656]

​@@nikitaw1982 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@brycedunn8059]

Swapped for 5L’s of premium petrol.

[@d00mg1rl]

@@nikitaw1982 and a durry

[@karlm9584]

Now, at last, they can hunt again! Whatever have they been doing until now?

[@Ghryst]

there is no such thing as theft if the land had no laws.

[@grellis6483]

I wonder if the spear thrown through the shoulder of Govermor Arthur Phillip could be said to have been 'stolen'.

[@adenkunz4747]

Ignorance is bliss with the indigenous peoples back then. Hence 60,000 years without any development

[@mickzammit6794]

What a pile of old crap. Sacred sticks?? You are joking.

[@derekmottley3656]

Well it is funny... In an *expensive* kind of way ....

[@Rosnoseros]

Make the ABC and SBS subscription only.

[@derekmottley3656]

Oh YES fucking please !😊

[@ellenmcaleese7004]

Great idea. Say millions in taxes.

[@jazzysnaps]

Add the cost onto the 43Billion and make a new one.

[@PrimalEater]

Good idea you’re understanding how your government washes money.

[@NickBiswell]

I found it offensive that people who are clearly of european decent were claiming them as their own once the spears were returned.

[@alfredopampanga9356]

Just a suggestion……an Aboriginal Traditional Cookbook. Recipes for traditional foods and highlighting interesting ways to eat your family.

[@gdaycampers]

The elites of Hollywood have already got that covered

[@Samantha-xy4ed]

The world is for everyone, who says they own anything

[@PrimalEater]

Who says you own anything? At best you’re nothing but a slave and don’t realise,

[@karlm9584]

We will all soon be expected to own nothing and be happy while we eet ze bugs... why should they be any different? Do they think UNDRIP will save them?

[@gdaycampers]

Do you work for WEF?

[@Mizone505]

The only reason they have lasted this long is because they have been looked after by the english. Reckon anyone could find something ancient in the back cupboard in the shed ?

[@derekmottley3656]

Bruce Pascoe ? 🤔

[@TomasFunes-rt8rd]

Just like the Elgin Marbles !!!

[@anthonylulham3473]

My grandad probably could. but he's getting forgetful

[@davidgriffin2918]

Thank you captain Cook, without you we wouldn't have these precious artefacts

[@Darioros326]

Great!! Another compensation claim from the taxpayers!!!!

[@derekmottley3656]

Oh how greed can change a human !

[@PrimalEater]

The very small amount of tax you pay hardly covers your free healthcare.

[@derekmottley3656]

@@PrimalEater You have to work to pay tax... You wouldn't understand !

[@PrimalEater]

@@derekmottley3656 Why should I, I think you are a slave why should I be like you ?

[@australiasindustrialage689]

Ancient spear, I'm not sure that the tribe had the spears for 1000s of years

[@derekmottley3656]

Cook was here in 1770... Go figure

[@PrimalEater]

You’re not sure on anything at all

[@karlm9584]

Maybe their collection of spears was secret 1000 year old technology that was created by their ancients, and the tribes at that time had actually forgotten the skills required to make more? Could explain why there are only these ones left?

[@PrimalEater]

@@karlm9584 Sounds like NASA

[@derekmottley3656]

@@PrimalEater Even worse, your not saying anything at all !

[@johncorlett3699]

captain cook seems a convenient scape coat, gets blamed for everything, regardless of wether on not he dit it,.

[@derekmottley3656]

Captain Cook kept records. As did Burke, Will's, Oxley, so fn many. The abbo's didn't make the trails.... They are re writing history... Wake up !

[@johnfisher9692]

Of all the different branches of the species Homo Sapiens, doesn't take much to figure out which are the biggest failures.

[@bottplug2272]

Aboriginal ppl are clearly the most successful ppl on the planet, but don’t let the stats destroy your fantasy!

[@brucerobinson3715]

Do they actually have the police report about the alleged theft of the spears?

[@srobertson4083]

If they where not "stolen" they would of ended up as firewood by the owners kids. Like everything else given to them they burn it as it has no value to them even today. I've seen them with holes cut in the timber floors to make a firepit in the lounge-room of a commission house and had burned all the doors and even removed some of the walls for firewood. (mind you this was back in 1990 in a country town of 2500 people)

[@igvtec]

Wow. Talk about blown out of proportion. As put, in the video if they were not given or taken as they say. The spares, would have been broken, rotten away, forgotten etc. And wouldn't be significant at all.

[@justinhollis5579]

They can put them in a museum with all the other Indigenous inventions like the wheel and farming equipment

[@Steve_P_B]

In indigenous languages, trading in exchange for other goods is what they call "stealing"

[@russell_beddyoisken]

Gestures of kindness and good will were worthless then, even more worthless now...

[@pushagainstthezeitgeist4968]

Always wondered why “traditional owners” seemed so committed to knocking off white fella stuff.

[@tinkingtinking2134]

They don't mind breading with us white people either

[@littlehills739]

id like the large marsupials made extinct by the spear owners back

[@nigelbiddell7939]

Are we talking about returning stolen goods When do the commodore's, skylines and Toyota's get returned

[@AquaMarine1000]

Did you mean Lieutenant Cook? After Cook became a captain, the indigenous people of the Sandwich Islands did their worst.

[@shanehansen3705]

he would have been a captain regardless of official rank as he Commander'd a vessel

[@AquaMarine1000]

@shanehansen3705 FYI: The Australian geographical plaques that commemorate Cook's landings refer to him as Lieutenant Cook.

[@PrimalEater]

Awesome Hey

[@brentritchie6199]

Give them their spears back and we will call it even

[@R00RAL]

I'd like to see the Ships log, see if they were actually given to the Captain.

[@iankearns774]

Who cares, they are bits of wood. Plenty of trees around to make another one.

[@R00RAL]

@iankearns774 The thing is, they claim to be here over 60 k years. Where are they? They are less than 4% of our population. Both the Dutch & the Arabs were here prior the English moving out into the bush. Something doesn't add up. We have only been here just over 200 years.

[@R00RAL]

@@mablesfatalfable6021 They are Indian by DNA. Travelling here & back.

[@davidharper1152]

So they threw the spears... and they got them back... when are those thieves going to return the "Small Shot" that was fired at them!!!... bloody ingrates....

[@derekmottley3656]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@derekmottley3656]

How,, now how, hic ... How did Japan find Australia ? Prior to 1942 ? Trump ? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@ConstitutionalConservative888]

How many casks will they trade for the spears?

[@Itmakesyouthink]

Written record, verbal record, if only there was a bodycam record.

[@evil17]

Like Albo, their word is their truth

[@alwaysright3718]

Onya Cookie for saving the twigs...

[@ivordavidson8533]

He probably traded something for these spears. This is more like modern bullshit.

[@davidstokes8441]

The Australian media??? What a joke - could not tell a straight story if it tried.

[@derekmottley3656]

👍

[@davidstokes8441]

How did James Cook steal or acquire these spears , were they the ones throne at Cook and his crew members" If so they are his to do with them as he felt.

[@isomorph7954]

It doesn't work the other way round, because the 'artefact' would be in valueless condition, like a burntout car or a demoed house for example.

[@coobye]

They should be thankful China didn't land here first. If you throw something at me then it's mine.

[@derekmottley3656]

Japan ! 😲

[@derekmottley3656]

1942

[@derekmottley3656]

🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱

[@tinkingtinking2134]

And they would be talking Chinese too.

[@coobye]

@@derekmottley3656 No. I wasn't talking about the Japanese threat of WW2 just China in general. It could easily say Spain or the Portugese judging by what they did to the peoples of the America. Australia was always going to be colonised. Aboriginals were just lucky it was by the British and not some of the other harsher countries.

[@markcarli8259]

They were actually used to sweep the debris off the wheels they had just created.

[@glennr7873]

Captain Cook preserved those spears, if he didn't, they would have been traded for a litre of premium unleaded long ago.

[@Lowlife-w3u]

Do you drive cunt? If so you sniff petrol everytime you fill.. should wear gas mask you petrol sniffing cunt!

[@karentracey9948]

Care factor zero about the spears, I want my fj Holden back please!

[@elgordo9031]

To the bastard who stole my mum's purse from her workplace in Casino NSW in 1993, give it back with my tuckshop money inside. Bloody missed out on my 50c paddle pop that day.

[@djbrak1434]

My VL Calais isn’t coming back after being stolen and burnt out. Wish they had preserved it, It would be worth a lot more these days.

[@mickthefisherman1562]

@@elgordo9031thankyou for your sacrifice.

[@robertvan-deroort5801]

Shouldn't have thrown the spears then. Maybe should've thrown the boomerang, they might've come back.

[@scarborough100]

Maybe we could have a referendum on getting the spears back?

[@anthonymaddison9588]

Trump did it.

[@briananderson7285]

Inspector Crusoe is on the case .

[@anthonymaddison9588]

@@briananderson7285 With his trusty side kick,Captain La Perouse.

[@mickthefisherman1562]

I knew it!🤬

[@anthonymaddison9588]

@@mickthefisherman1562 Bloody obvious.

[@Kayla-lh5we]

At this point we just living in this blokes head rent free

[@kanesmith9325]

A very good analogy. Very informative. Thankyou

[@danzydan2479]

At least we don't have to give them anything back with wheels on it.

[@the80iesguy]

Here is your pointy stick back. Thank you for letting us have your pointy stick for a bit.

[@spangas5799]

Loving the videos. Concise and very interesting. Are the spelling mistakes in the journal excerpt intentional?

[@MiscName]

Many words have changed in spelling over the centuries. They’re probably not mistakes.

[@redplanet7163]

Back then there was no standardised spelling for the English language. So, technically they are not mistakes.