A letter from Karuah: the centrality of Aboriginal family history to understandings of Australian colonial history

Family histories provide a new focus of gender and race relations to the existing history of Port Stephens and the Manning. Approaching the history of a region from an Indigenous knowledges point of view, that places Aboriginal cultural concerns to the forefront, has ramifications for our understanding of Australian history. The history of Aboriginal families in a region challenges the accepted notions of Aboriginal-colonial relations that have developed in Australian scholarship. These insights have ramifications for the broader history of Australia. Vicki Grieves will illustrate her talk with examples of family histories from Worimi.

Date: Monday 5 November
Time: 5.30 pm for 6 pm
Venue : Friends Room, Mitchell Wing, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Cost: Free (Light refreshments will be served)
Bookings essential! Phone:(02) 9273 1770 Email:bookings@sl.nsw.gov.au

The NSW Indigenous History Fellowship is offered biennially by the State Government to assist a person living in New South Wales to research and produce a work on a subject of historical interest relating to New South Wales from an Aboriginal point of view. The Indigenous History Fellowship is proudly supported by Arts NSW and the History Council of NSW.

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