Posts tagged First Peoples
Showing Signs of Respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture

For far too long Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture has sat in the background covered up by colonisation. Only now, thanks to the recent publication of Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe and other research projects, do we know about their history pre-colonisation. Whether that be their solid and thriving communities, their sewed fields and fished waterways, their politics and customs. A deeper narrative compared to the “hunter-gatherer” label we’ve put onto Indigenous Australians for far too long.

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