. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. STRUCTURE AND PROCESS IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF PELLA 43. lived at Pella under the Rhenish Mission Society, which had survived the ravages of the Koranna War. This view was held especially strongly by the descendants of the families W, D, R and M, who claimed to have been the first to 'return' to Pella and be converted to Catholicism as a necessary adaptation for resuming their occupation of Pella. These four families regarded (and still regard) themselves as a core-group whose claims to rights of r
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. STRUCTURE AND PROCESS IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF PELLA 43. lived at Pella under the Rhenish Mission Society, which had survived the ravages of the Koranna War. This view was held especially strongly by the descendants of the families W, D, R and M, who claimed to have been the first to 'return' to Pella and be converted to Catholicism as a necessary adaptation for resuming their occupation of Pella. These four families regarded (and still regard) themselves as a core-group whose claims to rights of residence on Pella were founded on the beliefs that their forebears had been the first to arrive at Pella and open up the wells abandoned by the /Hobesen under Witbooi, and that they had then 'allowed' other Baster families (Sw and Vs) to join them. They claimed that Pella was 'empty' on their arrival, the indigenous Nama k| having already left (although in fact this was not the case). The Basters recognized no I Khoisan groupings as having any ongoing historical claims to Pella, for in their historical mythology the 'Bushmen' were simply vermin fit only to be destroyed, the term being used indiscriminately to cover the 'San' and Koranna. The notion of 'Pellanaar' was thus given a much more exclusive meaning than that accorded it by the Europeans, whose inclusive view of the community (as long as the inferior 'Coloureds' knew their place) was called into question by the Basters in the 1920s (see below). Around this core-group was a large number of other Baster families who moved into Pella when it became increasingly difficult for them to follow a semi-nomadic existence in Bushmanland. The integration of these people was hastened by marriage with members of the core-group, and whereas they were called 'Inkommers' (as opposed to 'Inboorlinge' or 'Pellanaars') until about 1965, their general acceptance into the community was never seriously contested by members of the core-group.
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