Indigenous history
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Sunday essay: ‘this is our library’ – how to read the amazing archive of First Nations stories written on rock
Image: Josie Maralngurra touching her hand stencil made when she was around 12. In the background are three white barramundi fish figures with red...
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Sunday essay: Indigenous afterlives in Britain
Breastplate, of metal, engraved ‘McIntyre King of Mannilla’, c.1860–1874. ‘King’ McIntyre (c.1814–74) Donated by A.W. Wilkins to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 1930....
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Sunday essay: truth telling, Return to Uluru and reckoning with the sins of fathers
Picture: Lukas Coch/AAPReturn to Uluru is the latest book from respected historian Mark McKenna. It is one of a few history books published recently that explicitly...
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This 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia’s oldest Aboriginal rock painting
Picture: Damien Finch, Author providedIn Western Australia’s northeast Kimberley region, on Balanggarra Country, a two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo spans the sloping ceiling of a...
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Sunday essay: it’s time for a new museum dedicated to the fighters of the frontier wars
Group of Aboriginal people with shields and spears, by Joseph Lycett, circa 1820. National Library of AustraliaAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised...
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How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth
Jacob Junior Nayinggul (left) and Simon Baker in High Ground (2020). Maxo, Bunya Productions, Savage Films The Australian film High Ground, set mostly at a mission...
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Magic, culture and stalactites: how Aboriginal perspectives are transforming archaeological histories
The main chamber of Cloggs Cave. Monash University archaeologist Joe Crouch is standing in the 1970s excavation pit, digging a new area in the...
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Sunday essay: how a long-lost list is helping us remap Darug place names and culture on Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River
Darug women Leanne Watson, Rhiannon Wright
and Jasmine Seymour at Dorumbolooa. Avryl Whitney
In 2017, I came across an extraordinary document in Sydney’s Mitchell...
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Ancient stories and enduring spirit: Loving Country reminds us of the wonders right under our noses
Albany on the south coast of Western Australia,
just under five hours’ drive from Perth. Photographer:
© Vicky Shukuroglou taken from Loving Country
Review: Loving...
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Tall ship tales: oral accounts illuminate past encounters and objects, but we need to get our story straight
Two Dharawal men opposing Cook’s arrival at Kurnell.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people.In...
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