Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development - Grant ID: DI0347284
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$80,000.00
Summary
The Aboriginal Fight for Liberty and Freedom - The hidden history of African-American influence on the 1920s rise of Aboriginal political activism. This project will explore the significant African-American influences on the rise of the 1920s Aboriginal political movement. Previously undisclosed material revealed over the past two years has necessitated a re-evaluation of early Australian Aboriginal political history. Why was the history of the rise of early Aboriginal political activism missing ....The Aboriginal Fight for Liberty and Freedom - The hidden history of African-American influence on the 1920s rise of Aboriginal political activism. This project will explore the significant African-American influences on the rise of the 1920s Aboriginal political movement. Previously undisclosed material revealed over the past two years has necessitated a re-evaluation of early Australian Aboriginal political history. Why was the history of the rise of early Aboriginal political activism missing for some five decades? Why were significant relationships with high profile African-American identities obscured and erased from memories? The research outcomes from this archival study will make a contribution to the contemporary issues surrounding reconciliation and the current volatile historical debate over Aboriginal history. This project holds significant international racial historical importance.
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Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development - Grant ID: DI100100014
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$366,000.00
Summary
'To wake them up again': Digital futures for the international diaspora of early ethnographic collections from Arnhem Land. Informed by the Indigenous inheritors of Arnhem Land's endangered languages and traditions, this project will produce findings of world-heritage significance that will inform the importance of early ethnographic collections held in museums worldwide to well-being and cultural survival in our local communities. There is enormous local interest in our region's recorded histor ....'To wake them up again': Digital futures for the international diaspora of early ethnographic collections from Arnhem Land. Informed by the Indigenous inheritors of Arnhem Land's endangered languages and traditions, this project will produce findings of world-heritage significance that will inform the importance of early ethnographic collections held in museums worldwide to well-being and cultural survival in our local communities. There is enormous local interest in our region's recorded history. In recent years, the return of digitised materials from significant ethnographic collections has helped to stimulate the on-going maintenance of our cultures markedly. The sense of history that they bring is proving invaluable in maintaining well-being and community amid the hardships of local life, and in particular, in stimulating youth engagement with tradition.Read moreRead less