Yuraki - An Australian aboriginal perspective on deep history

Title: Yuraki - An Australian aboriginal perspective on deep history
Creator: Maynard, John
Relation: The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History p. 722-735
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315181929
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2022
Description: This chapter will focus on the uses of history from an Australian Indigenous perspective. In the context of Deep Time or Big History, it is important to understand that history on the Australian continent did not begin in 1788. Aboriginal people of the continent had a strong sense of recording and noting their history including significant events of the past. While I will analyse history with a 65,000-year clock in mind, it is of equal importance to discuss the construction of Australian history across the twentieth century. History can provide Indigenous people the means to challenge the paralysis of the perennial victim paradigm and inspire our future generations of their own heroes and heroines embedded within a very long and proud past.
Subject: Australian Indigenous perspective; history; perennial victim paradigm; future generations
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1449590
Identifier: uon:43702
Identifier: ISBN:9781138743106
Language: eng