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- Title
Historical encounters: Aboriginal testimony and colonial forms of commemoration.
- Authors
Nugent, Maria
- Abstract
The article provides an approach in which local histories of colonial memorial projects can show more about, and more than, the abuse and misuse of Aboriginal people's historical memory by settler Australians. It suggests that the figure of the Aboriginal eyewitness is one means by which to investigate how Aboriginal people themselves variously engaged with colonial forms of commemoration. It points out that the Aboriginal eyewitness as he or she appears in the archive can sometimes be read as evidence of Aboriginal people's engagement with colonial historical practices.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL Australians -- History; AUSTRALIANS; ETHNOLOGY; WITNESSES; MEMORIALS; EVIDENCE; LOCAL history
- Publication
Aboriginal History, 2006, Vol 30, p33
- ISSN
0314-8769
- Publication type
Article