Chapter 8: Bulla djandanginy – Challenges and tensions

Some of the difficulties confronting a project like this are the consequence of a history of colonisation and institutional oppression of Aboriginal people in south-west Western Australia (Haebich, 1992; 2000; Haebich and Morrison, 2014). It is a history characterised by land theft (Reconciliation,...

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Main Authors: Buchanan, J., Collard, Len, Cumming, Ingrid, Palmer, D., Scott, Kim, Hartley, John
Format: Journal Article
Published: Cultural Science 2016
Online Access:https://culturalscience.org/14/volume/9/issue/1/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50236
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Collard, Len
Cumming, Ingrid
Palmer, D.
Scott, Kim
Hartley, John
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description Some of the difficulties confronting a project like this are the consequence of a history of colonisation and institutional oppression of Aboriginal people in south-west Western Australia (Haebich, 1992; 2000; Haebich and Morrison, 2014). It is a history characterised by land theft (Reconciliation, n.d.); a history in which only a minority of the original, Indigenous population survived the first decades of colonisation (Green, 1984; Swain, 1993; Aboriginal Legal Service, 1995), and a history in which that population was then subject to a period of discriminatory legislation and the denigration of Noongar language and culture which lasted well into the late twentieth century (Haebich, 2000). More recently, Noongar language and knowledge has increasingly been celebrated in mainstream cultural life – festivals, theatre, music, literature, exhibitions and the like, along with numerous examples of general urban and street signage and, of course, Welcomes to Country. It has become a major denomination in the currency of identity and belonging in this part of the world.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-502362021-01-14T04:15:22Z Chapter 8: Bulla djandanginy – Challenges and tensions Buchanan, J. Collard, Len Cumming, Ingrid Palmer, D. Scott, Kim Hartley, John Some of the difficulties confronting a project like this are the consequence of a history of colonisation and institutional oppression of Aboriginal people in south-west Western Australia (Haebich, 1992; 2000; Haebich and Morrison, 2014). It is a history characterised by land theft (Reconciliation, n.d.); a history in which only a minority of the original, Indigenous population survived the first decades of colonisation (Green, 1984; Swain, 1993; Aboriginal Legal Service, 1995), and a history in which that population was then subject to a period of discriminatory legislation and the denigration of Noongar language and culture which lasted well into the late twentieth century (Haebich, 2000). More recently, Noongar language and knowledge has increasingly been celebrated in mainstream cultural life – festivals, theatre, music, literature, exhibitions and the like, along with numerous examples of general urban and street signage and, of course, Welcomes to Country. It has become a major denomination in the currency of identity and belonging in this part of the world. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50236 10.5334/csci.96 https://culturalscience.org/14/volume/9/issue/1/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cultural Science fulltext
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Collard, Len
Cumming, Ingrid
Palmer, D.
Scott, Kim
Hartley, John
Chapter 8: Bulla djandanginy – Challenges and tensions
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url https://culturalscience.org/14/volume/9/issue/1/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50236