Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Justice is a piece of literature that highlights how Indigenous people create honest and truthful stories about themselves that include their faults, but on the contrary, colonized stories about them make them seem out of place. In particular, the author shines a light on how stories made about Indigenous…
“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to” (John Ed Pearce). Janice was forced to leave her birth mother’s house 35 years ago and left again intentionally last year due to her overwhelming emotions. After this, her mother Anne dies, and Janice refuses to mourn…
What was the Mabo Decision? The Mabo decision was a court case that commenced on the 20th of May in the year 1982. A group of men from Meriam fought against the Queensland government for acknowledgment of the rights of Aboriginals as the traditional owners of their land. The leader of the case was Eddie…
1. Aboriginal – of Native ancestry, inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times and before colonists. 2. Indigenous – originating naturally in a region, belonging naturally to an environment of people born in a region. 3. Animism – the attribution of a living soul to plants, animals, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.…