AboriginalHistory

Since 1977 the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Aboriginal people’s interactions with non-Indigenous peoples.

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In Vol 46: a conversation between Laura McBride & Mariko Smith about their Australian Museum’s Unsettled exhibition, through which they responded to the 250th anniversary of Cook’s Endeavour voyage along Aust’s east coast by telling true stories that put Cook in his place.

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Volume 46 is just out! Congratulations to editors Ben Silverstein and Crystal McKinnon, reviews editor Annemarie McLaren and copyeditor Geoff Hunt for copyediting and to all the contributors and reviewers involved:
https://t.co/aH1K9oQWaL...

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In Vol. 46: a piece authored by Rob Hudson & Shannon Woodcock, who show how the Krowathunkooloong Keeping Place has formed an important site and tool of community work towards cultural resurgence; the article itself demonstrates the importance of collaborative research methods.

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In Vol. 46: Heidi Norman & Anne Maree Payne describe Aboriginal campaigns to repatriate Ancestors’ stolen remains over the past fifty years, showing how these campaigns have proceeded along with & as part of nation-building movements towards land rights and self-determination.

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Vol. 46: Examining the public memory of massacres in Gippsland, Aunty Doris Paton, Beth Marsden & Jessica Horton trace a history of contestation between forms of frontier memorialisation articulated to secure colonial possession & the sovereign counter-narratives of Gunai Kurnai.

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Also Greg Lehman’s review essay on Cassandra Pybus’s recent award-winning Truganini: Journey through the Apocalypse, which considers the implications of our relationships with history and how they help to think through practices of researching and writing Aboriginal history.

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Vol 45 is out!
Congratulations editors Crystal McKinnon and Ben Silverstein reviews editor Annemarie McLaren as reviews editor, and copyeditor Geoff Hunt for copyediting.

https://t.co/5NvLckapI8

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Based on extensive oral history work, Maria Panagopoulos presents Aboriginal narrations of the experience of moving—or being moved—from the Manatunga settlement on the outskirts of Robinvale into the town itself, on Tati Tati Country in the Mallee region of Victoria.

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Congratulations to Sally May, Laura Rademaker, Donna Nadjamerrek, Julie Narndal Gumurdul, for 'The Bible in Buffalo Country, Oenpelli Mission, 1925-1931' on the early years of a remote West Arnhem Land mission, winner of the 2021 NT History Book Award: https://t.co/J2m54XvuBH

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Read the Longread of this article by @paige_gleeson in just published Vol. 44: Elder, lawman, survivor: new stamp discovery is the latest chapter in Gwoja Tjungurrayi's remarkable life in pictures https://t.co/zTxm1ggBoP via @ConversationEDU

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Charlotte Ward, a contributor to just published Vol. 44, explores how a shared history and re-remembering popular narratives from the past brought about reconciliation and reconnection to the local community of Cooktown @crystalam https://t.co/85oBHAOpil

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And Gretchen Stolte’s study of Queensland Aboriginal Creations situates the production of boomerangs for sale as work of cultural importance, enriching understandings of Aboriginal artwork and its production.

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The 2020 volume of AH (vol 44) has just been published! You can download it from here (https://t.co/5SSMWDm8s0) or here (https://t.co/aH1K9p7ZcL...). Congratulations to editors Crystal McKinnon @crystalam and Ben Silverstein

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Paige Gleeson offers us a new perspective on the well-known image of Warlpiri-Anmatyerr man Gwoja Tjungurrayi, known since the 1950s as ‘One Pound Jimmy’, an image featured on postage stamps and on the two dollar coin.

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The 2020 volume of AH (vol 44) has just been published! You can download it from here (https://t.co/5SSMWDm8s0) or here (https://t.co/aH1K9p7ZcL...). Congratulations to editors Crystal McKinnon @crystalam and Ben Silverstein

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In a collaborative article, Myfany Turpin, Felicity Meakins, Marie Mudgedell, Angie Tchooga and Calista Yeoh consider three performances of Puranguwana, a ‘classical’ Western Desert song that emerges from the death of Yawalyurru, a Pintupi man.

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In this volume, Charlotte Ward’s narration of re-enactments of the Endeavour’s landing in Cooktown traces local processes of engaging with and producing histories that bring together stories of that landing with the much longer story of Guugu Yimithirr sovereignty.

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Heather Burke, Ray Kerkhove, Lynley A. Wallis, Cathy Keys and Bryce Barker analyse the extent of fear on the Queensland frontier through a historical and archaeological study of homes and huts and their fortification.

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In this volume, Charlotte Ward’s narration of re-enactments of the Endeavour’s landing in Cooktown traces local processes of engaging with and producing histories that bring together stories of that landing with the much longer story of Guugu Yimithirr sovereignty.