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What do you do when your family tree has been replanted in someone else's yard? What do you do as a white Australian when invited by Aboriginal friends and colleagues to connect with and honour your ancestry?
These questions become more complicated if your family participated in colonial violence and dispossession. The author's great-great grandfather was Samuel Griffith, one of the 'founding fathers' of Australian Federation. He was a Premier of Queensland, the first Chief Justice of Australia and intimately involved in drafting the Australian Constitution. Other ancestors of the author participated in the Frontier Wars in North Queensland to claim, 'settle' and defend their occupation of Aboriginal lands. This book is a series of letters written to ancestry. It's been created through cross-cultural friendships and partnerships. It's an engagement with history that hopes to make possible more action in the present. The book also includes contributions from Aboriginal Australians and Australian South Sea Islanders about the ways their ancestors are entwined with the histories discussed.
Aboriginal historian and author, Dr Victoria Grieve-Williams, has written the foreword and within it states: "What an honour it is to be invited to write a foreword for this timely and often startling book that is an important step on a journey towards the decolonisation of Aboriginal people in Australia. This book offers for settler colonials a way of living in this country that is on Aboriginal terms, recognising Aboriginal values, ethics and ways of being as viable lifeways . . . This book is a treasure."
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Unsettling Australian Histories : Letters to Ancestry from a Great-Great-Grandson
Edité par
Dulwich Centre Foundation, 2020
ISBN 10 : 0648060012
ISBN 13 : 9780648060017
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Vendeur : masted books, Gilberton, SA, Australie
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