How Indigenous Acknowledgments Became a Target in Australia

Recognition of Aboriginal Australians has become standard at most public events. Increasingly, the right is taking aim at the ...
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Aboriginal history : a reader / edited by Kristin Burnett and Geoff Read

Introduction: Aboriginal History in a Colonial Context / Kristin Burnett and Geoff Read -- 1. World Views: -- Indigeneity in Canada: Spirituality, the Sacred, and Survival / Dennis H. McPherson and J.
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Understanding the Aboriginal Creation Story: Singing the country

Australian Aboriginals represent the longest continuously existing peoples on earth. As such, the myths of creation and the ancient carvings explaining early animism are understood just as easily by ...
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No less worthy acknowledging Western Australian aboriginal men in World War I Aboriginal History WA and the Western Australian Museum

At the outbreak of war in August 1914, thousands of men from across the nation flocked to recruiting centres to sign up to serve in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). This figure includes ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Search for Aboriginal History Off the Coast of Australia

Archaeologists exploring the waters near Western Australia’s Murujuga are finding ancient sites a short dive below the sea’s surface Clare Watson, Hakai Magazine Archaeologists exploring the submerged ...
Courthouse News Service

Australia's Indigenous population up 25% in latest census

Annette Hlawa photographed these four Aboriginal men and two boys at Mount Molloy, Australia, before 1907. (Ethnological Museum of the State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage via ...
The Conversation

‘Why didn’t we know?’ is no excuse. Non‑Indigenous Australians must listen to the difficult historical truths told by First Nations people

Professor Eleanor Bourke (left), chair of Yoo Rrook Justice Commission, the first formal truth-telling process into injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria, at the smoking ceremony at its ...
The New Criterion

More on Aboriginal “history”

TNC’s March 2003 issue featured Keith Windschuttle’s Rabbit-Proof Fence: a true story, which took on the premise of Phillip Noyce’s film–that administrative policy in Western Australia from the 1930s ...